PARDON DOLLI · Levee · 05 of 14. ToneHash stamped. Ed25519 signed. Independently verifiable. Verification link at the foot of the page.

I kept searching for the same sound
Dirty strings and open wounds
Drums that hit like doors collapsing
Voices howling through the room

Never knew what I was chasing
Only knew I wanted more
Something in that raw distortion
Knew the combination to the door

Heavy riffs
Raw energy
Take me somewhere
Words can’t carry me

Back before the explanations
Back before I understood
I thought I liked the noise

Maybe the noise
Understood me

There are frequencies that find you
Before language knows your name
A guitar can cross a boundary
That a sentence cannot frame

So I searched playlist after playlist
Trying to recreate the spark
Never knowing I was lowering
A little lantern in the dark

Turn it up

Not to drown it out

Turn it up

So I can hear it

Under the distortion
Under the kick drum
Under the scream

There I am

Heavy riffs
Raw energy
A road running backwards
Through my history

I knew I loved the feeling
I just never understood

Maybe I wasn’t searching for music

Maybe I was searching
For me