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Virus (Ashes in the Ground)

by Jean Rohe, feat. Peter Jericho

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Virus
(Ashes in the Ground)
Jean Rohe

Let me lay this weight down, down, down 
No matter how I cry
I can’t seem to bail this ballast out

Let me jot these thoughts down, down, down
Though my pen runs dry
I will never write you out of me

Like a virus at rest lives in the blood
No fever sweat could cure
It just keeps hanging round
Til it expires inside us underground

oooh

Made me take my guard down, down, down
Not a fortress wall at all
Just boys with slingshots scared of a war

And all my comforts crashing down, down, down
Love came far too late
Fate found us others yet stood us face to face

With this virus at rest steeped in our blood
No fever sweat could cure
It just keeps hanging round
Til it expires inside us underground

I keep on trying to let you go
Purge you from my body
Give my smile back its glow
But how could I find solace
In some carefree, brand new start
The saddest thing is knowing that one day
I might be free

Of this virus at rest steeped in my blood
No fever sweat could cure
It just keeps hanging round
Til we’re together
Ashes in the ground
Till we’re together
Ashes in the ground

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released December 3, 2021
Music and lyrics by Jean Rohe
Jean Rohe: Guitar/vocals/percussion
Peter Jericho: Vocals
James Shipp: Percussion, vibraphone
Christopher Tordini: Bass

Produced by Jean Rohe
Recorded by Jake Lummus at Grand Street Recording. Additional recording by James Shipp, Jean Rohe, Peter Jericho
Mixed by Todd Sickafoose at Eary Canal
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music

Art by Thais Beltrame

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Jean Rohe Brooklyn, New York

Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the wider world outside them. She is a 2022 Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant recipient. Her latest full-length record as a bandleader, "Sisterly," won best Adult Contemporary Album at the Independent Music Awards in 2019. ... more

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