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Archaeology

from "Carry On" Trilogy by An Overnight Low

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"Archaeology" further enriches the album's tapestry by exploring the depths of human nature through the lens of a chance encounter on a boat journey from Holyhead to Dublin. The song delves into the concept of shedding societal constraints in transient spaces, such as bodies of water, where individuals feel liberated to embrace their primal instincts. An Overnight Low invites listeners to ponder the transformative power of environments that grant absolution from the burdens of everyday life.

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Archeology

A non-dreadnought
Holyhead to Dublin
Fought modern thoughts
Lost, assailing nothing

On an eavesdrop
I donned my assumptions
Of gone fodder talk
A song in the discussion:

How do five-pint passengers
Stay three-sheets devout?
They consecrate their sins
Before they cast them out
Can all your sneaky feelings
Stay stranded out at sea?
Abandon your allegiance
Absolve your memories

A cadence in the waves
Beat out my reverie there
The pulse of your heart
Is “A chuisle, mo chroi” here

A nautical call
Hypnotic salvation
The pulse of my heart
Waves of variation

The passengers sang something
confounded by Babel:
“You were near the ocean
The day the towers fell.”
It was sixteen years deep
Underneath the sea
Unfathomed things
Charted out for me

It was sixteen years deep
Underneath the sea
Now what will I do
With all that I believe?

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from "Carry On" Trilogy, released February 7, 2024
Written by Chad Walls and Sam Anderson
Performed by An Overnight Low
Recorded by Rowan Bishop @Garage Mahal Recording
Mixed by Jonathan Wyman
Mastered by Toby Mountain @Northeastern Digital
Illustration by Kay Beck

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An Overnight Low Portland, Maine

The music of An Overnight Low is based on a journey, one that has inspired a series of travel-themed albums. The songs have been divided into four studio albums, each named after one of the three train stations he frequented most: Euston (2014), Piccadilly (2015), Waverley (2017), Connolly, Part One (2020), Connolly, Part Two (2021), and Holyhead (2023). ... more

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