Name: The Scherzer-Whiplash Effect
Duration: P00H03M21S
Description: This is a song that's technically about a pitcher named Max Scherzer, but mainly about the pursuit of perfection consuming a person's humanity.

The Scherzer-Whiplash Effect

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This is a song that's technically about a pitcher named Max Scherzer, but mainly about the pursuit of perfection consuming a person's humanity.

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Now I've heard that your life's what you love
But what happens when what we love becomes us
And what happens when you cannot douse your flame
Well, you'll always be warm, and you'll see clear as day
But you won't know what's been taken away
Now the light behind his eyes is gone
And everyone that sees him cannot help but say

"That boy's a pitcher, you know he can't be anything else"
It's all over one unending fissure that leads down to the same foul hell
And they call it a mound when it's above the ground, but they don't know what lies beneath
And he will never know the success that he could see from one defeat

So now he sits on his rubble-made mound
In his own homemade Chernobyl
The toxic miasma complimentary
And he spits at the earth, and he curses the sky
Still hasn't thought about the day that he'll die
Doesn't plan to in this lifetime and
Why would you when you could bust your ass to hear them say

"That boy's a pitcher, you know he can't be anything else"
It's all over one unending fissure that leads down to the same foul hell
And they call it a mound when it's above the ground, but they don't know what lies beneath
And he will never know the success that he could see from one defeat

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released January 15, 2022

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