The Building Forgets
How post-metal's slow-build structure was used to make a hazard with no siren feel like one anyway.
The stories behind The Building Forgets
- The Quiet-to-Crushing Build Inside The Building Forgets — How post-metal's slow-build structure was used to make a hazard with no siren feel like one anyway.
- The Building Forgets Names a Hazard With No Alarm at All — A post-metal meditation on a newly named hospital hazard that has nothing to do with broken equipment: total, sudden loss of the building's own electronic memory.
Lyrics
Everything still works
Nothing is broken
The machine's all hung the same
Every light still knows your name
But the record forgot the day
The chart just just floats away
No fire, no smoke,
no alarm to hear
Just the building,
forgetting the year
No fire, no smoke, nothing to blame
Just a building
Forgetting your name
We drilled for flood
We drilled for flame
We never drilled for the quiet frame
Where every screen still
glows on cue
And nothing inside it
is true
No fire, no smoke,
no alarm to hear
Just a building,
forgetting the year
No fire, no smoke,
nothing to blame Just a building
Forgetting your name
Back it up
Back it up
Somewhere else
Back it up
Somewhere the fire can't reach
Alternate room, alternate line
Paper in a drawer for the darkest
time
We can't stop the day it
forgets But we can't build the door, it
never gets
No fire,
no smoke,
no alarm you'll hear
Just the building,
forgetting the year
No fire, no smoke,
nothing to blame Just the building,
forgetting your name
still works
Nothing is broken
