Name: Roadblock
Duration: P00H03M07S
Description: This was the first song I recorded in 2020 that I really liked. I leaned heavy on the cello and was just feeling it. Life definitely throws a lot of roadblocks in your way and I didn't even have any idea how many were coming when I wrote this as it was before the pandemic hit. I guess it has some prescience to it, although I would have been totally cool with it if it hadn't.

Roadblock

from Violet Afterlife by Cosmic Cairns

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This was the first song I recorded in 2020 that I really liked. I leaned heavy on the cello and was just feeling it. Life definitely throws a lot of roadblocks in your way and I didn't even have any idea how many were coming when I wrote this as it was before the pandemic hit. I guess it has some prescience to it, although I would have been totally cool with it if it hadn't.

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So I came upon a roadblock
I don't know the way around
The way it goes
The way it flows
The way it goes
The way it flows

I think I've been here before
But I'm not really sure
I think I'm over this
I still exist
I'm over this
I still exist

Roadblocks pop up in my way
But I don't care it's all okay
I'm good for now
I don't know how
I'm good for now
I don't know how

Thoughts form in my head
And then just disappear without a trace
They're gone for good
I knew they would
They're gone for good
I knew they would

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from Violet Afterlife, released April 16, 2021

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Cosmic Cairns Nevada

Cosmic Cairns is a one man band/recording project featuring Ethan Slaughter on numerous instruments. I've been making home recordings since 1995 and am in a constant process of learning, growing, and exploring. And hopefully recording a few halfway decent songs along the way. ... more

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