Reprise (Marthasville)

by J Bengoy

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The idea for the song came to me in the Atlanta airport after a flight back from Costa Rica about 2 years ago. While in Costa Rica, I had gotten stuck in a rip tide and sucked out a ways from shore while attempting to body surf. I managed to get back safely but the experience, as you can imagine, cause me to re-evaluate how I was spending my time. In the next few months, I quit my desk job, started an Americorps year for COTS (a non-profit focused on preventing homelessness), and wrote the first J Bengoy EP with Charlie. Also around that time, my girlfriend and I had just broken up so I thought a lot about love, longing, and desire in the context of existentialism. To get to the point - I re-discovered something that people have known for a long time - that love, longing, and desire can pull you out of the doldrums of feeling bored and pointless.

- Justin

lyrics

Waiting for the weekend
Waiting for my head to roll
Hoping for some time that we might be alone

Caught up on the words that show you how I really feel
Spin around my head in search of what is

So what can you say?
And what can you do
when your thoughts and theories
always get the best of you

What can you know
When seconds can steal?
I might just find a way
to serpentine this deal

Sit down tell me all your worries
I won’t be your judge and jury
I will never say what you should do

You won’t be the constant shelter
From a world that I could welter in
But somehow
You still pull me through

I want you

credits

released November 28, 2017
Mixed by Daniel Kruglak
Mastered by Rob O'Dea
All lyrics and music by J Bengoy

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