Name: Blindest Eye
Duration: P00H05M34S
Description: "What do you do when you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do?"

Blindest Eye

by Ryan Irby

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"What do you do when you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do?"

lyrics

If it all comes down to me
Why should I do anything?
Let the chips fall through
The cracks in the street
And I’ll die free

All the long and lonesome way
My horizon looks the same
Better friends all gone
World’s moving on
And I’m just going grey

I am safe when I don’t care at all
Then the pain, well, it cannot be my fault
Neurotic and numb
Despondent and dumb
Hiding in the walls
Nothing gained or lost

If the redwood’s burning down
What can I do from the ground?
Turn my blindest eye
To the ashen sky
And take the road around

I am safe when I don’t care at all
Make no play and you get nothing wrong
Adrift on the lee
Blameless and free
Turn and face the wall
Nothing gained or lost

As the mountains turn to sand
Every grain a gleaming hand
I will lay me down
Across the prow
And wait for signs of land

Move through me like a gamma ray
Leave the surface undisturbed
All projected; all is hologram
Bleed the meaning from the words

credits

released March 8, 2024
Written and produced by Ryan Irby.

Ryan Irby: vocals, guitar, bass, keys
Brian Jones: drums
Ian Blackwood: violin
Alex J Dimas: vocals

Recorded by Ryan Irby at home, except drums which were recorded at Sound of Music Studios by Dan-O Deckelman. Mixed by Dan-O and mastered by Bruce Smith.

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Ryan Irby Richmond, Virginia

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Blindest Eye

Mar 2024
Snowglow

Dec 2023
Apogee

May 2023
Ley Line

May 2023
Iris

Aug 2020
Enclosure

Mar 2019

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