Taste Test: The Ruralists toy with death on new song, ‘Your Bones Get Old’
The indie-folk band brood on death’s inevitable grip on all our lives with a new song.
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As Townes Van Zandt once mused, a stiff drink to his lips, “I guess I keep a-gamblin’ / Lots of booze and lots of ramblin’ / It’s easier than just waitin’ around to die.” We either get busy living or get busy dying. Dying is inevitable, but we don’t have to let it consume us before we’re rotten. Luke Hawley, frontman of The Ruralists, flexes his pen with a gruesomely toe-tapping song about meeting life’s tattered end. “Your Bones Get Old” pulls on the loose threads of an undertaker’s own sojourn from the bright lights of vitality to his last days, a cat and mouse game he seems to play with the Grim Reaper. “Your bones get old before you know,” Hawley mourns his own existential dread with getting older. Even in the final moments, which ring as clear as the bells in Game of Thrones, there’s a peaceful state unlocked. Accepting our fate is half the battle.
“Your Bones Get Old” samples their new EP, EP2, out everywhere now.
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