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A Shadowy Figure

from The Dark by Them Jones

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Every face on the street is a threat to the peace he keeps inside
Every word that he speaks is all day replaying through his mind
Into a shell he retreats mute and solitary, resigned

Though he appears to be common, ordinary, they don't apply
When the depth that is reached is the darkest deep, refrain desire
Into a shell he does flee from another defeat in life
Cause in a shell he is free of all that flesh confines

Now who is he so shadowy a figure in the night
A wary being, yes you'll see him whither in the light
But in a shell he can breathe relief in the deepest sigh
Cause in a shell he don't need to please or sacrifice

See the flush of his cheeks and his trembling knees, he aches to hide
But it's a prison scene, he must concede these ways are tired
Into a shell he does flee from another defeat in life
Cause in a shell he is free of all that flesh confines

Now who is he so shadowy a figure in the night
A wary being, yes you'll see him whither in the light
But in a shell he can breathe relief in the deepest sigh
Cause in a shell he don't need to please or sacrifice

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from The Dark, released December 11, 2020

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Them Jones Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Combining the stranger elements of post-60’s pop with the less-mined saccharine sounds of acts found in the drug-drenched Haight-Ashbury fallout,Them Jones create a mutant sound all of its own. They exist in the space between the sonic ether of a Tuesday night basement show and the crackle of the dusty, scratched over grooves of the hypothetical record collections procured by 70’s cinema auteurs. ... more

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