I Was Riding My Bike To Work When I Realized I Have No Job

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Song: I Was Riding My Bike To Work When I Realized I Have No Job
Artist: The Ills
Release Date: 29th February 2024
Video link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWTz21uX5pQ
Album name: Life Is Random (release date: May 2024)
Written by: The Ills
The Ills are: Miroslav Luky (guitar), Jakub Szatinsky (guitar), Peter Berák (bass guitar), Ľuboš Hodás (drums, percussion)

Recorder by Jakub Hríbik and Jakub Spiszák at Pulp Studio Bratislava during 2023
Produced by The Ills and Jakub Hríbik
Mixed by Jakub Hríbik at Pulp Studio Bratislava
Mastered by Alexander Vatagin in Vienna, Austria

About the song:

“I Was Riding My Bike To Work When I Realized I Have No Job” is a song that we used to call “Tearsforfearsáčka” (the Tears For Fears song), you can feel the influence of this incredible band in it. Composed during a psychologically very difficult period for us, after the departure of our guitarist, the founding member of the band and a longtime friend. In that time we were secretly meeting and rehearsing only as a trio as it was all illegal back then due to a hard lockdown in Bratislava and a raging Covid pandemic. We were trying to overcome the frustration from difficult times by alcohol, cigarettes and long conversations in the rehearsal room.

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In the grim dawn's embrace, a hangover's crown
I pedaled through the town, half-awake, forlorn
The streets, like old drunks, lay silent, worn
The wind a whisper of dreams that tumbled down

Tires spun tales of hope crumbled to dust
A ghostly memory of a desk, chair, and phone
Now shadows cast in a realm where light is overthrown
In the quiet, echoes of a life unjust

I paused at a light, where silence held its reign
No cars approached, just a void profound
The cosmic joke, a cruel, relentless bane

Pedaling hard, life's wheel shattered on the ground
No office, no boss, no race, all in vain
Just me and this bike making a tearful sound.

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released February 29, 2024

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The Ills Bratislavský kraj, Slovakia

Starting back in 2008 as a bedroom project more than a regular band, The Ills found quickly missing spot in slovak independent scene. They connected their vision of how should post-rock sound like with shoegaze loudness. With two guitars, bass, drums and no vocals The Ills played from small pubs and cellars, clubs and festivals, and they are one of the most active slovak live bands. ... more

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