Everything Goes to Waste

from The Season Came Undone by My Lament

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An ancient statuette in a decadent château garden provides a silent commentary to the gaiety amid the greens, its scornful grin alerting two lovers that it “must have seen how this serene soirée will end”. The poem “Le faune” by Paul Verlaine, from “Fêtes galantes” (1869), provided the blueprint for the first verse of “Everything Goes to Waste”, which does not try to be coy about the album’s unifying theme: the inevitable decay of all that we hold dear.
And yet – the unbearable becomes so much easier to bear when it is accompanied by a choir of “ooohs”, does it not?

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Terra cotta faun
Grinning on the lawns
Must have seen how this serene Soiree will end
Soon this golden hour
Destined to turn sour
The moon is gone, the deed is done
The mystery spent

Everything goes to waste
Everything fades to grey
Everything carries the taste
Of future decay

Everything turns to dust
Your shining armor will rust Your star will fade
The whole charade
Fall to the ground
Even now in your prime
Feel the flow of time
Drip by drip slip from your grip
And drag you down

Everything goes to waste
Everything fades to grey
Everything carries the taste
Of future decay

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from The Season Came Undone, released September 22, 2023

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