From the recording Mercywheel - 1999

I like the use of laid back percussion and classical guitar licks peppering this one. It's mellow, with a slight melancholy which undermines the otherwise tropical reverie.

Favorite bits are the backwards guitar bits and layered vocals in the middle section, along with the 'sneaker wave' of backwards electric guitar which pulls the listener back into the rest of the song. I also like that the ending doesn't resolve - a theme you'll see in several other songs here.

The double-bass sample works pretty well, I think. Though I do wish I'd had the real thing to work out that part....

Guest percussion by Dave Lemke.

Lyrics

Down again
Dancing on coals yet surprised to get burned
You'd think by now
That I might have learned

But I know that I've failed once more
To show darkness the door

Sad again
Only aware of what I do not have

Maybe if I weren't busy keeping score
I could show darkness the door

Hold me, until I can hold back
Keep me, until I know what it is I lack
I know you love me
It's really just that...

I'm down again
Down again

I'm down again
One more time to be burned
One more truth, partially discerned

But I'm never really sure
I've shown darkness the door
Darkness the door
Darkness the door

I'm never really sure...