The Anxiety Wheel

from The Anxiety Wheel hypersingle by Kayo Dot

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Random, miscellaneous use of studio time, trying out an idea that never went anywhere. This was recorded in 2010 at the same time as some of the synthesizers for "Stained Glass." Charlie Zeleny, who played drums on Blue Lambency Downward, plays on this. He just showed up and read a chart. This track is just for fun and not a serious artistic statement!! But we'll call it a Kayo Dot tune because of its circumstances.

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The Anxiety Wheel

Circle, circle
Close the circle
Think a thought to death
Spin and spin and spin and spin
Never ever ever win
Tide goes out
Tide comes in
Days expire
Years begin
Something in a weary head
Before the dawn tossed out of bed
If this then that
Then tock then tick
Then hide in closet
Worried sick

What I thought of yesterday
Plagued me the next morning
It followed me like a dragon
I hoard my fear like gold
I thought a thing
I fought a thing
My sword broke and it won
And it still follows
Across gray hollows
Down the bowels
Of a troubled Earth
So here I hide and here I wait
Alone—not lonely—arriving late
And leaving early
Do not disturb the dust upon me
And every chance that was every day
Crept and wandered far away...

The wheels turn, but the
Wagon never moves
The oceans churn, but the
Shipmaster disapproves
Quiet, quiet, quiet, in the
Vast and darksome quiet
A ripple stirs the silence
And the wheel starts to turn
It grinds and it groans
Like teeth and moans
In a clock that never ticks
In the aching gears of Atlas
In the halls of rusted bones

Circle, circle, close the circle
Think a thought to death
Round and round
A gruesome sound
As I am lowered
Full of regret into the quiet ground

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from The Anxiety Wheel hypersingle, released March 19, 2021
Music by Toby Driver
Lyrics by Jason Byron
Drums played by Charlie Zeleny
All other stuff played by Toby

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