Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. — Guy de Maupassant

So I’ll light another cigarette and try to remember to forget. — Lowell George

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before. — Steven Wright

This week scientists announced the discovery of a fully-preserved flower from the Cretaceous Period, a plant that bloomed in modern-day Myanmar one hundred million springs ago. The blossom was encased in amber, a translucent substance that originated as the sticky sap that oozed from a tropical tree. Scratched onto the back of the lozenge were the words, We’ll always have Burma.

In Everett The Grey’s ‘Pillowcases’ we find a memory preserved, not for one hundred million years, but perhaps for longer than is mentally healthy. A memory of hair and rain and leaves and distance. Someone tried to carry the memory in their front pocket, but it burned a hole through their heart and up their spinal column and into the base of their brain where it perpetually smolders like the Springfield tire fire.

I scream through the night
and you don’t hear a sound
Swim through the sheets,
in the blankets I drown
Hold onto you cuz
I’m losing my ground
I lost my shit when
you dipped out of town

‘Pillowcases’ opens onto spacey introspection, a voice over echoing guitars, the last thoughts of one stumbling into unhappy sleep. We then address the unseen entity that exists inside our skull and ask the only question that matters: Where were you last night? The final ninety seconds are given over to those words that can be expressed only by a searing guitar solo.

Everett The Grey self-describes as a mutli-genre musical project based out of Kansas City, Kansas. ‘Pillowcases’ is a great representation of Everett The Grey’s genre-spanning — or melding — style, which includes elements of rock, hip hop, folk, and jazz. Today’s track is the third single released this year by Everett The Grey, following ‘Sunsets’ and ‘April.’ A new EP, I Don’t Want Your Help, is set to appear in 2021.

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