Name: The Quiet Persuader
Duration: P00H02M51S
Description: This song originally appears on our 2011 LP "Latitudes and Longitudes", available through Tiny Engines.

The Quiet Persuader

from Wherever I Might Land by Signals Midwest

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This song originally appears on our 2011 LP "Latitudes and Longitudes", available through Tiny Engines.

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Pacing hotel room hallways, trying to call you but not getting through. Driving congested highways, closing whatever space that I can. Calming, a calming effect that is only achieved by arguing with those kind enough to listen to you. And then there's me: I'm the quiet persuader. Willing things to just happen while everyone else is working, working for something. But oh, to accept the space between what we do and what we dream of! Every sacrifice, every compromise, it just builds up the shame. Is it so much to ask to make a life out of this? I should be choosing my words but I'm throwing my fists. I should be building up a wall against a sedative complacency but nothing's gonna calm it down and no one's getting through to me. Just how much longer can we stay? Just how much more can we take? We should be making our marks but we're cleaning the walls. I was counting the miles. You were counting the days. Ain’t it strange the numbers we wanted were moving in opposite ways? Will you remember me?

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from Wherever I Might Land, released July 22, 2014

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we are a punk/indie band from Cleveland, now spread throughout OH and PA. we've been doing this together since 2008. we have been lucky enough to see the world together but will still play in your kitchen or anywhere really.

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