The stories behind Stand Where I Stood

• Liner Notes: The Two Arrangements Behind Stand Where I Stood — One take gives the mentorship anthem a full festival folk-metal band; the other strips it down to an electronic, dance-leaning groove.
• Stand Where I Stood: A Folk-Metal Song About Handing Down a Trade — A veteran biomedical technician walks a newer tech through everything that never made it into a manual, in a festival-ready anthem about mentorship.

Lyrics

Come stand beside the bench, I'll show

you how it's done

Before the years run out from under me

And the sun

I learned this trade from a great pair of hands

Who walked me floor to floor before I understood the plans

Now the fiddle's mine to carry, now it's mine to give

Come shadow every callback, come and watch me while I live

Stand where I stood, learn what I know

Take the map I drew you and then let it go

Stand where I stood, carry it on

One more hand upon the bench when this one's gone

There's no manual for patience, no page for this

Just a hundred small disasters and the calm between

So walk the halls beside me, count the tools I trust

Someday you'll be the graveyard teaching someone else like us

Hand it down Hand it down

They didn't write me a program

They just walked beside

Now it's you, I'm walking, now it's you I'm teaching to

That's the only way this bench outlives me and you

Stand where I stood, learn what I know

Take the map I drew you and then let it go

Stand where I stood, carry it on

One more hand upon the bench when this one's gone

Stay where I started

Stay where I started