Rest-Best-Of.mp3
Rest-Best-Of.mp4
Rest.mp3
Rest.mp4
Rest-intro.mp3
[Intro]
Rest
(But don’t stop!)
[Verse 1]
Some 12 bar blues
(We were snoozin’ though)
When suddenly…
(Put to the test)
[Break, Rest]
Rest
(But don’t stop!)
No, don’t stop
(It’s best…)
[Bridge]
To let the music play
(Play away)
[Verse 2]
We were strummin’ along
(To an impromptu song)
When souls did suggest
(We give our hearts a test)
[Break]
[Bridge]
[Outro]
Double whole rest
(Quarter, eighth, sixty-fourth)
And all the rest of the rests
(Henceforth:)
See: N.C.
(Tacet)
For a bit
(Caesura)
For sure, a….
ABOUT THE SONG
The new release of the day, “Rest,” is both a play on words and a play on playing. Built around an acoustic guitar jam and a keyboard playground, the song explores the fine line between stopping, pausing, and absolutely refusing to stop the groove. It opens like a sleepy 12-bar blues that looks like it might nod off entirely—until it’s suddenly “put to the test.”
Lyrically, rest becomes a mischievous character of its own: the break that says “relax,” the band that hears “keep going,” and the notation that insists silence is part of the music whether you like it or not. From double whole rests to sixty-fourths, from N.C. (no chords, no excuses) to tacet and caesura, the song pokes fun at the idea that even doing nothing takes discipline.
It’s a reminder that sometimes the most musical thing you can do is pause—
just not for too long… because, as the song makes clear, “Rest (but don’t stop!).”
From the album “Sudden“