La Dispute - "Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-sound"

Listen to the full album: https://epita.ph/3I1cQNp "Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-sound" by ‪‪@ladisputesomewhere‬ from the album 'No One Was Driving the Car', out now Order, stream & download at https://ladispute.ffm.to/nowdtc Directed, shot, edited by Jordan Dreyer Produced & written by La Dispute Engineered by Connor Massey Mixed by Scott Evans at Antisleep Mastered by Heba Kadry LYRICS and to catch the light in you / to be celebrated / try to pull the time behind you forward / bends and breaks you / in the early morning stopped / by the ever ticking clock / not the clicking when the hands move / but the absence of a sound in between / un-do un-settled un-easy / can you feel it? / it’s the opposite of peace / un-safe un-connected un-protected / understand? / it’s the plan / and it’s something / but it’s nothing if you never let it go and your kids are getting older now / and you’re getting old / and your friends have all come over / and your kids are drinking / and they’re celebrating life with you / almost everybody’s there / and your kids are drinking / and your kids are drunk siblings on the stairs / drunk and fighting while your parents / try to understand the role they played in getting there / and she’s standing on the landing / and her head is in her hands / while her children shout and try to push each down / do you understand it now? it’s that tension underneath / from the absence in between / an undercurrent tunneled into nothing / and besides it’s life / it’s fine / it’s life / it’s fine / it’s life / it’s fine / it’s fine / it’s fine / it’s life / it’s fine / it’s fine it’s the un-sound beneath that keeps us down in the background all around / over every moment now / what we’ve left and what we lack / all you can do is drown it out don’t you hear it? / un-relenting un-forgiving un-impeded / when it’s peaceful / don’t you feel it / pulling back? now the clock continues ticking / and the aching never fades / there’s no option to rewind it back / to break or change it / to see between each beat the love you gave / un-afraid and un-ashamed / un-abated by the weight / un-believable to be and your kids have gotten older now / they’ve got children of their own / your whole families coming over / it’s a birthday party / and they pull up in the driveway / and you’re standing on the porch / when your grandkids see you waiting / they come running and we stumble to the end / it’s the effort we put in / to see how difficult it is to just exist and to survive / there’s beauty and there’s anguish tangled helplessly inside / what a miracle it is we get to be alive do you recognize it now? / it’s a fucking complicated thing / joy and grief and in between / a universal burden over all of us from birth until we die / it’s a struggle and we stumble / and the best that we can ever do is try that’s life / that’s life / we love and we rely / on the beauty we can find / to make it through that’s life / we give a purpose to what’s left before we die / and we die because it’s life and we fall short all the time / while the clock keeps ticking onward in behind / and the absence never leaves us / but it’s fine / it’s just life / it’s just life FOLLOW LA DISPUTE ▶ Store: https://ladispute.ffm.to/store ▶ Website: https://www.ladispute.org ▶ Instagram:   / la_dispute   ▶ TikTok:   / ladispute_official   ▶ Facebook:   / ladisputemusic   ▶ X: https://x.com/ladisputeband ▶ YouTube:    / @ladisputesomewhere   ▶ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3obW7tX ▶ Apple: https://apple.co/3uX16Tb ▶ Amazon: https://amzn.to/35ueTGs #ladispute #siblingfistfightatmomsfiftieth #theunsound #iii #noonewasdrivingthecar #epitaph