Confused By Your Wires
From Made By Moving
Confused By Your Wires
Where ‘Made by Moving’ opens with swagger, ‘Confused by Your Wires’ immediately complicates the picture. PCBender writes the musician’s anxiety dream better than most, and the track earns that territory honestly. ‘The amp can’t understand / the drummer breaks his hand / but no one hears him screaming’ lands like a bruise, and in a minor key at a pace that hits harder than you expect for a track this emotionally precise, the guitar work gives the alienation real teeth. The chorus piles up those ‘no rewards’ like unpaid debts, and by the time it cycles back the third time, the repetition feels earned rather than lazy. Coming right after an opener built around confident forward motion, this track’s undercutting of that confidence is the album’s first sign it isn’t interested in easy answers.
Lyrics
Step up to the mic Dig in for the night Ain't no place for fright Just remember the lick
Throat burns inside out Relax before the scream What makes this a dream Less certain than a doubt
In every face the crowd sways And weaves and bobs, but never stays
Confused by your wires Lost in the chords A melody unfounded Your harmony expires No rewards No rewards
Tuning out the static I still can’t find the key A beggar’s sympathy Pretending I’m automatic
Fingers bleeding meaning The amp can’t understand The drummer breaks his hand But no one hears him screaming
In every face the crowd sways And weaves and bobs, but never stays
Confused by your wires Lost in the chords A melody unfounded Your harmony expires No rewards No rewards
Every signal fades the same Silence holds the longest note And drowns the words I never wrote When every name forgets its fame
In every face the crowd sways And weaves and bobs, but never stays
Confused by your wires Lost in the chords A melody unfounded Your harmony expires No rewards No rewards
No rewards No rewards No rewards No rewards