Temporary Vessel

by The Wormholes

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This song speaks to the ever-present conflict between the material and the meta-physical. Our subjective experience is not physical - we do not feel our cells or atoms - our experience is purely consciousness and the various states of mind that consciousness encompasses. And yet this experience is housed in an impermanent physical body - a “Temporary Vessel”. An awareness of this experience reveals the autonomous nature of thought and its tendency to produce unnecessary suffering on the human mind. The journey of introspection can sharpen that awareness. This song represents that journey.

The song is structured to mimic a meditative experience. A simple beginning that expands as time goes on. This is the practice of mindfulness. The song continues to move in waves until reaching a definitive transition, where a mantra is introduced. “You are not your body or your thoughts. You are not floating in your body” and “In this vessel, temporary” are phrases that are alternately repeated, until reaching the climax of the song. The last moment is a deconstruction. We are back to the introductory chord progression, now paired with melodic holdovers we’ve heard throughout this journey. The song ends and we are back to the present moment.

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Living in the future
And all caught up in a beautiful disaster
You pretend that you are happy
Makes no sense
And you bury the truth so no-one ever has to know
So sublime this paradigm
I lose my mind just thinking about you
Can’t you see the ghostly grip
You’ve got on me
And you bury the truth so no-one ever has to know
Living in the future
And all caught up in a beautiful disaster
You pretend that you are happy
Makes no sense
And you bury the truth so no-one ever has to know
In this vessel, temporary
You should look for the truth in you
You should do what your heart’s been telling you
Know that the darkness may be scary
You should look for the truth in you
You should do what your heart’s been telling you to do
(In this vessel, temporary)
You are not your body
Or your thoughts
You’re not floating in your body
Or your thoughts
You’re not
You are not your body
Or your thoughts
You’re not floating in your body

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released March 19, 2020
Written, engineered, and mixed by The Wormholes
Mastered by Marc Hallisey

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