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Reinvent Ourselves actually started lyrically from two different scraps of writings that I had.
The first part, I was obviously in a really dark mood and started framing an almost dystopian kind of situation. I guess the idea of a police state or a warlike situation was in my mind at the time. I wasn’t really quite sure where to take it after the first couple of lines, however, and just left it the way it was in my notepad to revisit at some other time.
The second part of the song was drastically different, focusing on brighter days. The idea of escaping from an unhappy situation and “getting away” to someplace nicer and more enjoyable.
When Beavis, Jeremy and I got together the following Sunday, Jeremy had written the base music production for us to work from and I noticed how drastically the music changed as it progressed, especially with the introduction of the deep bass line about halfway through. Beavis laid down some sweet guitar to bootstrap a lot of the sound together in a tighter fashion and I started playing around with using some of these lyrics and noticed that the two scripts actually went together in a story-like fashion so I went with it.
Like ghosts we shimmer in the darkness, rolling the dice to make our next move.
Foreign sentries haunt us, shadowing each step.
You can hear the howling in the distance.
Tracking each of us and taking the weak.
Each criss-cross street I cross is telling me to get out.
It’s simple. If you take my hand we’ll leave this place and reinvent ourselves.
We could be anything.
All your dreams, all your potential, it’s possible.
Everything’s possible.
Believe in everything and it just might come out the way you imagined.
Everyone’s got to start somewhere and we’re starting out here, right now.
Just take a breath and jump.
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