Wholes from Slowest Roads by Zach Gentry

A song originally about watching a friend struggle with addiction. It covers a range of implications about the way our culture in the modern United States teaches us to bury down our feelings instead of allowing them to be felt.

This causes a need for coping mechanisms, which are always more of a handful than they're worth and always get worse as they fester in the dark. Sickly, shameful, and afraid of the light these neglected injured children remain huddled in a dark room deep in our hearts.

Sometimes the cure is to rip the door open and see what fears to be seen. To stand there silently with open eyes and love what fears to be loved.

In any moment the very emptiness that we seek to distract ourselves from is the cure to all of our problems. In any moment of impulsive escape we can instead take a breath and realize the power that we have over our actions. And the power of a decision to choose life, whatever that means to you.

Tracklist

3.	Wholes	4:44

Lyrics

There's a hole in you
I can see it pullin' with its emptiness straight through
But don't think that I can't see
I've got my own hole that's pullin' inside me
There's one in everything

And they call
And they beg
To be full, to be full
And we all find our own ways
Despite the pain to be told

If you can grab a shovel and start burying it down
If you can take a little dirt then you can make a little ground
To stand on
Is this what you planned on when you were comin' here?

And they call
And they beg
To be full, to be full
And we all find our own ways
Despite the pain to be told

If you can grab a shovel and start burying it down
If you can take a little dirt then you can make a little ground
To stand on
Is this what you planned on when you were comin' here?

Credits

from Slowest Roads, released January 28, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Zach Gentry
Recorded by Zach Gentry
Mixed and Mastered by Miles Johnson - linktr.ee/mostlyleg
Album Art by Barry Gentry, Adastra PhotoGraphics
Special thanks to Scott P. Crowley and Jay Padgett

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