Call Me Out was written in 2017. It's an acknowledgement of the need for open listening, active learning, inward study and accountability towards personal and social change. It's an owning of our privilege and responsibilities.
We're not looking to take up a lot of space with this release, but thought it might do some good to put it out now, rather than hiding it away any longer. It won't be available on spotify, applemusic, etc, or as a physical release. Please don't post it on youtube. The purpose of this release is to raise money for the folks mentioned above.
There is an object
In the middle of an empty room
There is a subject
In the place between me and you
But I don’t want you to worry
Where I go in that evil hour
I’m only down here at my station trying to figure out
What runs on that essential power
Behold, the brute degeneration
Old questions in the blood
The light that shines on you is the only light
I can’t see the way I should
I want to talk about it
If you wake up and wonder
Why I’m not at your side
You’ll find me sitting in the dark
Trying to understand the light
Though my friend might measure my love
By the time I take
Still my eyes betray me
At the end of every day
I am afraid.
So maybe Jacob’s on the ladder
Holding it down and halfway home
That leaves the rest of us descending in the dust
Or sleeping on the stone
There’s a light here that I recognize
Or maybe my eyes are just failing me again
Maybe I might only mean just what I say
Still the light is leaving at the end of every day
I am afraid.
Call me out if I’m not working
Call me out if I’m in the way
Call me out from the stone under the ladder
Call me out for the limits of my faith
Call me out for the place that I inherit
Call me out if I’m turning from the gate
Should I call you out for the same?
If you wake up and wonder
Why I’m not at your side
You’ll find me sitting in the dark
Trying to understand the light
Though my friends might measure my love
By the time I take
Still that light is leaving
At the end of every day
I am afraid.
credits
from Call Me Out,
track released June 9, 2020
Written by The Constantines: Will Kidman, Steven Lambke, Doug MacGregor, Bry Webb, Dallas Wehrle
Recorded at Palace Sound by Alex Gamble, January 8 2018
Mixed and Mastered by Kenneth Roy Meehan
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