I’ve been locking myself up in my house for sometime now
Reading and writing and reading and thinking
And searching for reasons and missing the seasons.
The Autumn, the Spring, the Summer, the snow.
The record on stop and the record on go
Latches latched, the windows down,
The dog coming in and the dog going out.
Up with caffeine and down with a shot and
Constantly worried about what I’ve got.
Distracting by work but I can’t make it stop
my confidence on my confidence off
I sink to the bottom I rise to the top
And I think to myself that I do this a lot.
And the world outside just goes and goes and goes
And I witness it all through the blinds of my window. THREE, FOUR
I’m a little nervous about what you’ll think
When you see me in my swimming trunks
And last night in New York I got raging drunk
Remember one time I got raging drunk with you
I can recall a time when we made the city
Streets our playground, kissing in the fountains
Filled with cigarettes and bottles
Sped through Italian city streets of cobblestone
Because we had to
Because I loved you
Because the damned alcohol
Because whatever at all
Now I’ve grown to aware of my mortality
To let go and forget about dying
Long enough to drop the hammer down
And let the indolence go wild and flying through
Because we had to
Song Breakdown: Talk on Indolence
Appears on:
Four Thieves Gone CD/LP
Live Vol. 3 CD/DVD
Live Vol. 4 CD/LP/DVD
Originally titled Indolence Rap
“We’re bad to overwork ourselves and overthink things and that song is kind of a plea to just gorget about it and let it go and be lazy” - Scott
When Scott brought the words, he said the feeling of this has to be just super erratic, what the lyrics are talking about needs to be matched by the tone of how we’re saying it” Seth
Pool parties always scare me away - Nemo Lady Luck
This song deals with mortality and being aware of it.
Seth Plays Tamborine
Seth throws Tamborine
Scott has been knows to Stage dive during this song. The last time being August 20, 2010 House of Blues Myrtle Beach, SC
The Avett Brothers first show in New York was in 2003 at Radio Perfecto, Langhorne Slim, Nicole Atkins, Regina Spector, and Paleface were in attendence
Y’all know what I’m talking about, no choice
"you're the back and forth sway of the hammock all day"