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Waiting on the Paperback

by Cassette & 45

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“Waiting On the Paperback” is a song about the dark, emotionally-draining lull that immediately follows the death of a loved one and the catharsis of making music when we’re at our lowest to help manage the residual pain. Lyrically, the song is about longing for things to go back to the way they were, but also the coming to terms with the fact that wish can never come true. What does it say about us if we’re fruitlessly waiting forever for something impossible to happen?

The song’s slowly building mariachi-inspired horns are meant to pay tribute to Dia de Los Muertos and parallel a desire to commemorate death with reverence rather than mourning. Attempting to heal and find the support required to face of the burnt, blackened edges of the despair.

“Waiting On the Paperback” is an attempt to write something life-affirming in rebuttal to the devastating finality of death, in hopes we deliver a deserving monument of a life well-lived, but gone too soon – casting their memory in amber.

The modest origins of the song started with a demo layered with synths (some still proudly poking out of the mix) and grew into a mainstay of our set. The plodding rhythm section thumping like a pulse proves “Waiting On the Paperback” is the visceral heartbeat of our forthcoming album, “Don’t Blink” on which we decided death wasn’t the end, it was a catalyst for some the most adventurous songs we’ve ever recorded. With any luck, we can turn our grief into something we can all sing along to.

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Heavy heavy heavy
Bares the weights upon my shoulders
It’s left me like I thought these lyrics might

Heavy heavy heavy
It’s left some bruises where I hold her
The words have stayed a trembling in my mind

Buried buried buried
Like some burning ancient secret
Long kept hidden and blood-ridden from her fight

Burned out with blackened edges
Like some derelict redeemer
I’ve been waiting on the paperback to arrive

Mixed up, fucked up brown-eyed boozer
Stumbles toward the ceiling
Walls are spinning MC Escher-like

Tell me tell me tell me
Something sweet and too endearing
Give me cavities in molars pearly white

Thumping thumping thumping
Goes my pulse inside my eardrums
Run your fingers through my hair I’ll be alright

Haunt me haunt me haunt me
Man, I’m dying just to see you
Really dying is the only chance I might

Heavy heavy heavy
Was the weight upon my shoulders
Now I’m the one to keep us all alive

Burned out with blackened edges
Bible verses and a holy fever
Never a believer but your gospel fit quite nice
Never a believer, I couldn’t see her even if I tried

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released March 18, 2022

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Cassette & 45 Columbus, Ohio

Inspired by indie-rock-stalwarts, pop-inflected R&B and the classic tunes of the Stones, Prince, Elvis Costello and Otis Redding, Cassette & 45 is the collaboration between two brothers from Columbus, Ohio who have been fortunate to have had a revolving door of talented musicians help them flesh out their sound, experimenting in the studio. ... more

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