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Your Inexorable Pull

from At Home At Sea by E.G. Phillips

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And now we come to the conclusion — to the last track of the new album, “Your Inexorable Pull.” As the otherworldly layers of “You Will Sail” lap up against some distant shore and subside, there is a brief clearing of the throat, as if I as a songwriter and performer am reasserting my own presence on the album before launching into a live solo acoustic performance — just my voice and my guitar — going back to basics after our journey together through so many different genres and soundscapes.

With my first album, I was a bit against the somewhat cliche acoustic close out, having wanted to end (perhaps melodramatically) on the thrashing on the Dm chord that is the culmination of the grungy distortion-laden “Lover for a Day” — itself part of a mini-suite that begins with its philosophical counterpart “The Fish Song.” But in the end there seemed to be no other logical home for “The Light In Sylvia’s Window” so eventually I acquiesced.

Now I felt like such an aperitif was necessary. In part because that seemed like the natural realm of this song. In part because it is the logical counter point to “Lighthouse at the Edge of the World” — which, while not the opener, is close (perhaps Albatross is a “prelude”). Where in Lighthouse we were lamenting what seemed like an inevitable pushing away of intimates, here we acquiesce and even delight a bit in the strange and inexplicable pull of someone who is still largely unfamiliar. It is short and sweet with some vocal escapades I perhaps can’t quite pull off but are none the less heartfelt.

This track premiered in Vents Magazine which called it "raw an intimate"

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I feel your inexorable pull
As we travel in the same circles

I feel your inexorable pull
As we travel in the same circles

Maybe one day these concentric rings
Will meet in an intersection
Can we achieve visual contact?
I’m hoping there’ll be a connection…

I feel your inexorable pull
As we travel in the same circles

I feel your inexorable pull
As we travel in the same circles

I can’t explain all the forces
Behind this strange attraction
I am flotsam, a derelict vessel
Fueled only by my imagination…

I don’t really know that much about you
All I know is that I know about you
And that seems to be about enough for
me…

I could launch a miniature spacecraft
On a mission to your doorway
And you could send up a weather balloon
To meet my argonauts half way

I feel your inexorable pull
As we travel in the same circles

I feel your inexorable pull
As we travel in the same circles

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from At Home At Sea, released July 12, 2019
voice and guitar:
E.G. Phillips

produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Osheroff
mastered by Matt Boudreau, Working Class Audio
songs and artwork by E.G. Phillips (ASCAP)
published by Ducks With Pants Music (@duckswithpants)

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E.G. Phillips San Francisco, California

E.G. Phillips is a San Francisco based songwriter who creates lyric driven songs with his own special blend of whimsy and cinematic imagery which he uses to give a wry take on dealing with the longings of the heart and the madness of existence.

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