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Coming off of the main theme of Hushed and Grim, this song deals with loss. A definition of anchor: A person or feeling one uses to keep his or herself grounded or in a calm state when things are not well. Consequently, we can infer that pain always comes with an anchor in order to keep ourselves gr...
[Verse 1: Brann Dailor]
Oh, my dear
Look what we've done here
My greatest fear
A pain with an anchor
The taste of defeat
Oh, my dear
Look what we've come to
We've shattered serene
[Chorus: Troy Sanders]
I've turned the grief to medicine
Into my mouth will enter
The hardest pill I've ever had to swallow down
As karma whispers
[Verse 2: Brann Dailor]
Oh, my dear
The damage is done hеre
I disappear
A love with no anchor
In thе depths of the sea
[Chorus: Troy Sanders]
I've turned the grief to medicine
Into my mouth will enter
The hardest pill I've ever had to swallow down
As karma whispers
Pain with an Anchor was written by Brann Dailor & Bill Kelliher.
Pain with an Anchor was produced by David Bottrill.
Mastodon released Pain with an Anchor on Fri Oct 29 2021.
Brann Dailor:
I think that’s probably one of the first songs that came about for the album. I strung a couple of riffs together, and then [guitarist] Bill [Kelliher] and I sat down in his basement and combined a few more. He came up with that big, heavy riff at the end and all that cool stuff in th...