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Ringing Ears
album cover
Ringing Ears was released on February 6, 2026 by Impermanence Music Works as a part of the album Smoke Smell, Ringing Ears
February 6, 2026
LabelImpermanence Music Works
LanguageEnglish
BPM49
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

Music Video

Lyrics

Sit
Absorb
Take in
Learn
Make a home for these children
Find their light and meaning
Overwhelm them with depth of mind
Carry out the lesson in time
Inner world closed to the outside
In service to the tempers
Terrified of the outside
The stings aren’t there if they don’t see
Fear was the driver to learn
Things I was too young for
Felt in subconscious memory
I never could unlearn it
The lesson of volume absolute
See and feel red grow on the skin
Was it my fault all along?
Did I just grow too slowly?
Too weak of mind and body
To climb even the smallest peak
Growing to curse the guardrails
Letting go just to cave in
Voices yelling to get up
But crying was all my body knew
But still I see your strain in passing
Trying to interpret what you learned
Where the fog came in and split us
What you were trying for all along
Cycles of loss and gain mirrored
Giving all time to the home
A child born incomplete
Surgery before walking
Suddenly stopped talking
Viewed outside as defective
Unknowable coping tools
Both grasping for a way through
Light was always just out of reach
The gap between who you are
And what truth you were made to learn
What could I keep to move on
What must be purged to survive
Did she tie the weight
Did it come with the name
Expectation and
Implicit result
No light or warming
On this long walk
She could not give what
She did not receive
Could panic be the territory
Could it have been a fight or flight
Who did you want to grow up to be
Before the stress took a firm hold
Said goodbye years ago
Empty when I saw her last
Synapse failed when the lights returned
Caught in a field of shadows
Hoping for the right letters to
Cut through the shapes and be known
Will you be the same in time?
As I grew I learned the truth
The violence of repression
Rage that burns through others’ skin
Ignoring our inner child
Small and fragile things to mold
Generational weight passed
The only knowledge we start with
Shapes everything of my vision
What you remember years from now
All that I want kept with me
These new years of holding tight
How long could I keep them around
I don’t want you to go
A new collective memory
Connected and separated through lives
Corrupted by time
I saw it all
Written by: Eliot Cain
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