Name: Things Fall Apart
Duration: P00H04M11S
Description: I cribbed a bunch of Yeats' words from "The Second Coming" to write a song about unrequited love which, while you're in the throes of it, certainly feels like the end of the world that Yeats described.

Things Fall Apart

from Empires Fall... by Noisy Primates

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I cribbed a bunch of Yeats' words from "The Second Coming" to write a song about unrequited love which, while you're in the throes of it, certainly feels like the end of the world that Yeats described.

lyrics

The center of my heart cannot hold;
Its mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
In ways that other poets have foretold:
Love, unrequited and bold, destroys the soul

Things fall apart

Disbelief steals like a thief
The warmer emotions leaving only grief
As my life’s overarching theme
And all that’s left to me retreats to the province of dreams

Things fall apart

Some nights I dream of you
A shimmering vision of half-truths
Where you see me as I do:
The only one meant for you

Alas! ’tis slumber’s eyes only
Where I might appear so fairly
In reality I must depart these scenes
For a life less full of grief

My heart must set you free

Things fall apart

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from Empires Fall..., released October 15, 2021
Written by Ty Davison
(h/t to W.B. Yeats)
Original tracks written/recorded in Oregon January 2021

All instruments and vocals: Ty Davison
Drum: Brendan Kuntz

Mixed and Mastered by Francesco Petrelli

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Noisy Primates Oregon

Noisy Primates, commonly abbreviated as NP, is an American alternative rock band based in Oregon. Ty Davison is NP's lead vocalist and principle songwriter.

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