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Leave the Rest to Me

from What Comes Next by Jason Moody

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“Leave the Rest to Me” (2020/2022) started off as a song called “Ragged Love”. It was polite and poppy and wouldn’t have been out of place in 2002. Good for then, but not really fitting with the rest of these tunes. I ended up trashing all of it save the drum beat and built this droney, somewhat linear thing, at least as far as the drums go.

Some of the found sounds from “The Diesel of Summer” appear again here. Also, I'm a sucker for lyrics in which a garden gets mentioned, ("Stardust,""Polkadots and Moonbeams," "I Only Have Eyes For You," for example). Now I've got one too, albeit, nowhere in league with those songs.

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Well I've got this scary feeling
Welcome to the crossroads blues
I left work so damn late
Hung out like ice upon your gate

I ran headfirst into midnight
And I felt like broken glass
We held tight along the midway
When the bombs went off at last

I stood like I had somewhere or someone else to be
Say that I'm your only, leave the rest to me

"None of this is real"
Read tattoos upon our necks
You'd have to be a little drunk
To pretend to know what's best

You wouldn't get too close to me
Oh god no

I would size you up, you would knock me down
It's perfect, it's such harmony

I stood like I had somewhere or someone else to be
Say that I'm your only, leave the rest to me

We snuck out through the garden
In our disguised identities

Who cares if we go missing?
Who cares if we go free?

We were careless all along
We were captives of the song
We divided our belongings
We divided and we were gone

I stood like I had somewhere or someone else to me
Say that I'm your only, leave the rest to me

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from What Comes Next, released July 23, 2023

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Jason Moody Chicago, Illinois

"Local musician Jason Moody has been riding the periphery of the Chicago indie scene for years, and I think he deserves a lot more attention than he gets. He's a songwriter who crafts well-structured pop songs, which makes them ripe for covering (check out Daniel Knox's cover of "Halcyon Days"). Moody has a way with melody and hooks. He's also got a lovely voice."
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