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Commenting on the new single, co-vocalist and guitarist Tiger Cohen-Towell says:
"O Calamity was written 6 years ago, I recall the vocals for the first verse and chorus came into my head during a shift at the bar I was working at, a pretty standard way that songwriting starts for me even still. Felix and I were performing under a different alias then, so we finished and arranged it together. We always thought it was a beautiful song and kept it in our pile of material, but didn’t include it on the album simply because of how long ago it had been written. This feels like a good time to stop hanging onto it, so here it is; a snapshot of our past written by the two of us, scarcely more than teenagers at the point of creation. It feels like an absolute world away, but good songs never get old."
lyrics
Don't compare me to Charles Manson
Or the person in the chair
I only tried to draw the curtains
On a truth I could not bear
I saw a demon in a bar
He was sitting with his back
Toward the door, I got away
But he was laughing with a girl
I called my sister at the party
When I first kissed your face
And when held onto your body
Oh
Calamity rolls on
And I never wanted to hurt anyone
Oh
She is a song sung
She is far off in the country
She has business to attend
With Mother Earth and Brother Michael
Getting holy, getting right
And the cattle in their pens
Will drive a bass into the night
And it will wake him from his sleeping
He will call out for his wife
But she’ll be fast inside her dreaming
For the first time in her life
Oh
Calamity rolls on
And I never wanted to hurt anyone
Oh
She is a song sung
Solo
credits
released July 23, 2025
Produced by: Richie Kennedy
Mixed by: Catherine Marks
Mastered by: John Webber
Found because of Final Fantasy 16's Pax West Panel, if you know, you know! Anyway, that started me on all of the boygenius songs and albums. Love the song, I certainly formed some core memories with it, awesome track on an album of amazing songs. jrevell
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