Symptoms

Symptoms is the second song on the Covesthur album Idle Brain Matter.

Theme
You feel the symptoms of the incoming end of your life. You sit yourself down in your rocking chair and have a melancholic and sad moment. This track is the soundtrack to the part where you think about what you want to have for an last dinner. Spaghetti or something eh? Problem is that you have to time that spaghetti right so you don't die before getting it or have to eat another meal between that and your death. You consider eating your last spaghetti meal and then starving yourself to death to solve this problem. You are a special person. You decide to do this but the result and execution of this scheme is not revealed in this track, as this is only you sitting there in your dimmed room in a chair planning it in your demented brain.

Trivia

 * 1) The snare drum in this song is same one The Living Tombstone used in his early music, as example Discord (covesthur comment: which in my heart is still his best work, jk) and some of his other work at that exact time. You could call it his (Tombstones) Kicksnare days, where most of his beats was this constant kick-snare-kick-snare pattern over and over. There is an problem with using this snare in this context because of the nature of the other instrumentation. This is meant to be an soft ballad thing with an organ as an main instrument and then you have that over-compressed electronic snare that really conflicts with the rest of the track.