From the recording I'm Balance
Music by Josh Imel; Melody and Words by Christopher Kinzel
Josh Imel: Vocals, electric bass, synth piano, keyboards, digital drums/percussion, samples
Christopher Kinzel: Vocals, electric guitar
Lyrics
Punch me in --
pick up where we left off,
red light never shut off
Nudge the trim --
match the prior level,
catch me in the echo
Nothing changed since yesterday
Make a bigger canvas, splash the colors,
tweak the blend, rewind and mend,
there’s time to spend
Have it to invest today
Build it slower, work it over -- yes, inspect and mess
and guess and check
and test and wreck until the end
Panning me over
Stuck on the shoulder, reach out…
Punch me in --
muted through the chaos,
punched in for the payoff
Lunch begins --
allocate the portions, suffer the distortion
Stymied disorder
Crossing a border,
you reach out and punch me in
Trailing vapor, jets away
When you figure out prevailing speed
is not the posted speed
in history’s slipstream
No one seems to get away
Disadvantage if you vanish in a cloud of smoke,
so coax the choke, revoking hope of resisting
Battling the tempo
Presto v. Lento
Even though we’re just replacing emptiness
Feels like we’re erasing something else
Punch me in --
dual contributions,
single attribution
Rough mix in --
critically we listen,
chisel ‘til it glistens
Punch me in
Clicks are bleeding through,
impeding you now hmm
Punch me in….
Punch me out...