Sunken Monument

from Rough Time Demos by Jesse LeBourdais

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5th track from Rough Time Demos.

Last year I wrote a book, and found the process to be quite fun and rewarding until it came to the actual production, which was belaboured and stressful process. This song relates to how I handled delays and frustration now vs. how I would have handled it 5 or 10 years ago.

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SUNKEN MONUMENT

This will only take a moment, just a few minutes of your time. I know you’ve got better things to do, and I know that I do too. This problem needs attention, can no longer neglect it, and this failure to respond has been going on for far too long. There has got to be a better way, or at least a different place. But I’m still holding out some hope that you will finally come along but I tell you either way, I’m going to see this to the end, so you can either help or you can just get the fuck out of the way and let us roll.

I wrote this all in a letter I didn’t send, it got thrown away with the rest of the old junk mail and all that recyclable paper that always builds up under the kitchen counter, so I don’t remember what I even wrote so now I’m starting again.

It feels just like I’m falling but I haven’t even started to climb; it feels just like the wheels are falling off but I haven’t left the shop. Does this get any better, or is the highest point? There was once a time when I would let that question burn into my head, but now I take it or I leave it. Either way it’s much the same. Nothing ever really seems to change and we always find our way but that don’t mean that I’m not tired of eating the same shit. Coming up with new a different ways to stay in the same place and never change.

I wrote this all in a letter to myself, but I threw it away with the rest of the old junk mail and all that recyclable paper that always builds up under the kitchen counter, so I don’t remember what I even wrote so now I’m starting again.

But a part will remain in the echo that rings in the hollows of our lives, where it stays, as a reminder of who we used to be. Over time it will fade, like some sunken monument, that is no longer the anchor that it once was. It doesn’t hold you in place and you’re free to change.

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from Rough Time Demos, released January 4, 2022
Guitar, Bass, Slide Guitar, Vocals - Jesse LeBourdais

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Jesse LeBourdais Vancouver, British Columbia

Punk rocker/folk singer, now an author, apparently.

Breaking strings and writing words since 1998.

New Single "We Howl" out March 1st, 2024

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