The Spider and the Flea

by Eric Benoit

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On Friday, September 28th, 2018, for ONE DAY ONLY (12AM-11:59PM PDT), I will be donating all sales from this single to the Voting Rights Project. Bandcamp is also donating its share of revenues, so 100% of your purchase will be donated to the non-profit. Hope you can join me in supporting this important cause!

During the course of the day this song will be a Bandcamp exclusive :) then available on other services soon after.

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"The Spider and the Flea" - a rumination on digital life, discomfort, irrational fears, and the desire to share those burdens with another person.

The song began as an instrumental Ableton Live session in June 2017. I almost developed it into a full work for the Black Currant EP. But for one reason or another, I never could finish the song. It took returning to the original session a year later to convince me I needed to make it into something new.

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Lyrics:

The deep web beckons
The spider and the flea
I gazed into that dark net
And it gazed back at me

I don't trust many
And fewer every day
But I think I want to know you sometimes
In the darkness of this place

The night always ends
We return to sleep
The veil gets tattered
As the spider weds the flea

Oh, just give up your soul,
And I'll give you my body
We'll stay in the shadows
We'll awaken quietly

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released September 28, 2018
Written, produced, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Eric Benoit

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Eric Benoit New Jersey

Contact: eric@ericmbenoit.com

If you've ever stared at your computer and cried, or told Siri you were sad because you didn't have anyone else, but you kind of felt good about it, then you know what my music feels like.

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