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Heaven Forbid

from Prime Mover by Rocco of the Snow

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Heaven Forbid is about falling in love with the dream of who someone is, but learning that image was never reality.

“It’s been said, there’s a cure for a heavy head.” If you’re trying to wean yourself off of the drug that is this illusion, maybe you can take something to stay awake and avoid your inaccurate memory of her.
“Heaven forbid it.” You don’t want to avoid the dream, you want to dive right into your habit again.

“Now there’s someone new. I finally got a sun to wake up to and all of the skies appear more true after they’re beaten black and blue.”

“All the goodbye’s we gave up, you can’t say we’re going to take them seriously or maybe it’s just me.”

The song goes on to describe failed attempts to create a new dream in someone else, only to recognize it’s a futile endeavor and that she’ll always figure out a way to fool him back into this perpetual entanglement….or worse, leave him being the one needing the dream.

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It’s been said there’s a cure for a heavy head.
Heaven forbid it. Instead, I wanna make it safe to go to bed.
You can bet- my alarm’s waking my regret.
I wake up in cold sweats and I can’t get the taste of you off my pallet.

You were my dream or the best I’d seen
Now the haze it fades, you know what I mean.
Take it from me-I’m practically free
But it was worth the run, you’d have to agree.

Take your time.
All that runnin...gonna lose your mind.
Heaven forbid it.
I find when life it gives you love, gotta let it shine.
Cause ya don’t know when you’re gonna find another one to defend
We don’t exactly lay low and you know art’s not supposed to take control.

But now I question the point
of revering the past at all.
Was I outta my mind?
You’ll be happy to find
it’s all out of you.

I invented someone new.
I finally got a sun to wake up to.
And all the skies appear appear more true
after they’re beaten black and blue.
Now it’s all on me, but it’s always been the way that it had to be.
Cause after a while it made more sense to be alive in present tense.

All the goodbyes we gave up
You can’t say we’re gonna take ‘em seriously.
Or maybe it’s just meeeeeeee!

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from Prime Mover, released December 21, 2018
Heaven Forbid (Rocco DellaNeve)
Rocco DellaNeve-Vocals, E. Bass, Clavinet, Synths
Kevin Urso-Guitar Mark Marinaccio-Piano, Organ Steve Padin-Drums, Percussion

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Rocco of the Snow New York, New York

Rocco of the Snow is a New York City-based multi-instrumentalist & producer/engineer hailing from Buffalo, NY. In his music, you'll hear his Romantic era/Jazz sensibilities mixed with four-on-the floor dance grooves, funky key-basslines, analog synth-heavy production, and introspective bordering on self-indulgent lyrics, always coming together with the intention of holding melody to be paramount. ... more

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