The Cooling | Reina del Cid

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"The Cooling" recorded live at our favorite record store, Hymies Vintage Records in Minneapolis
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Thanks so much to string players Kate, Laura, Charles, and Blake for bringing this song to new heights with their beautiful artistry!

Directed by the extraordinarily talented Dan Huiting.

Thanks to Dave at Hymies for lending us your awesome space for the evening, and to Brad Matala for the onsite audio recording.

This song will be on our upcoming record, coming out this May. We're also submitting this to NPR's Tiny Desk contest, so wish us luck!
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Players featured:
Toni Lindgren - guitar
Zach Schmidt - drums
Kate Jarvis - violin
Laura De St Croix - violin
Charles Asch - cello
Blake Bonde - upright bass
Reina del Cid - vocals

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Lyrics to "The Cooling":

The first thing to go
it might surprise you to know
it's not the blood from the muscle
or the strength from the bone

Between you and me
it's the simplest thing
it's the warmth of the body
when the soul is at home

It's the heat
and you struggle to keep it inside
but it seems
it's stealing away in the night

-
When you first realized
that your body had died
you went to the tunnel
to wait there alone

And you stood there for days
but the light never came
so you took your poor body
and you walked it back home

Now you're popping some pills
oh to fight back the chill
and you're picking some flowers
to help with the stench

But no manner of blush
will be quite enough
to cover the pallor
that spreads 'cross your skin

and they said
that hell would be fire and smoke
but in the end
it's this cooling that scares you the most

-
There's a pretty young thing
with a pretty gold ring
and she talks to you every night
'cause she don't know you're dead

And you can't figure how
when you're walking through town
no one's noticed the knife
sticking out of your head

Now you're living in fear
that sometime this year
they will finally notice
that you're heart doesn't beat

And they'll dig you a grave
and they'll put you away
but you still won't be ready
you'll grow back like a weed

Like a weed
and you wonder what you're waiting for
'cause it seems
there's no honor in death anymore