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Waiting Room Prayer

from Deathbed

December 15th, 2021
6 tracks
42:39
Deathbed
Deathbed
Waiting Room Prayer
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11:29
Waiting Room Prayer
Wounds of Recollection
Not much time passed before we were chanting waiting room prayers. We begged the heavens to have mercy on your soul. No one had the courage to sing songs of joy. No one had the courage to sing songs of praise. If we had your heart, we'd sing of streets of gold and golden bells. I felt sorry that I felt sorry for myself. You didn't die all alone. Cloudy shapes of loved ones surround the room. You left the world the way you lived. Surrounded by family, loved and assured. You didn't die all alone. Cloudy eyes of loved ones surround the room. You left the world the way you lived. Surrounded by family, loved and at peace.
10:13

The 9th album from solo post-black metal project, Wounds of Recollection. The writing for Deathbed began in the first weeks of 2021. After a four-year battle with Alzheimer's disease, we admitted my grandmother into hospice care where she spent her last days. The guilt of knowing I spent too little time with her when she was sick weighed heavy on my heart. In my own cowardice, I avoided the situation and carried on with life as if nothing was happening. The tracklist is intended to serve as a fictional conversation between my late grandmother and I in the days leading up to her death.

"There is nothing that anyone could do."

Credits

Written, recorded, and produced by Wounds of Recollection.
Drum samples by Judd Madden.