Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra
The title refers to Lead, SD, a town in the Black Hills of South Dakota that repeatedly appears throughout the album, “A Black Mile to the Surface”.
It was formerly a large gold mine and is now the home to the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Neutrinos are tiny particles that can travel near...
There are parts of me just stuck inside the grocery
In the produce aisle where the dead beats
Rustling trying to look busy but they're high like me
There are parts of you, I see you argue with yourself and I think you're crazy, really
We're both running out of days, I pray you get by like me
This is temporary, I just heard I'm gonna be a dad
South Dakota, every winter someone loses it
I'm lost without a single clue as to where I'm headed
I wait for her because without her I'm gonna sink
Would you marry me? repeat repeat
There's no clarity tomorrow
I'm not even trying to swat those demons away from me
Is it temporary? I don't think I want to be a dad
Nobody knew today would be the day he loses it
I'm lost without a single clue as to where I'm heading
I look for her because without her I'm going to sink
The snow is piling up, our temporary grid
It was just like this, this time last year
There's nothing in the wind, just white up to the trees
And it's been that way for eternity
The grocery, Elise, thirteen, was buried by your arrow
Steep shriek of the softball team, it rewinds me
Will you pray for me? repent, repeat
I'm a clock and a balance beam
If I die there's nothing I keep that reminds me
Microscopic specks of love being raptured to you
I heard a sound that was paranormal
Must've thought I had begged him to bury me
Bleeding out, better buy one to get one
The snow is piling up, our temporary grid
It was just like this, this time last year
There's nothing in the wind, just white up to the trees
And it's been that way for eternity
The time has come to abide by your folly
It's so unusually bright for the scene
You are the blood in my blood, you pretender
It took your blood on my blood to believe
Lead, SD was written by Andy Hull.
Lead, SD was produced by Catherine Marks.
Manchester Orchestra released Lead, SD on Fri Jul 28 2017.
This song took the longest out of any of the songs on the album to find its voice. For a long time it was a really straight forward Pixies-esqe rock song, and it took months of digging around to get it to where it is. A lot of that had to do with taking the drums out. The initial inspiration for the...