FAWM: "The Looking Glass"

The Looking Glass

1 week ago by @graysen

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Liner Notes

Phew.. I really haven't played this much acoustic Guitar in recent history.

I find this song to be core to who I was as a music consumer back in middle school. I can't help but reminisce on the times I was blasting Taking Back Sunday. Funny how that early music DNA comes out with out much of an effort.

Lyrics are senseless and lack cohesion. Perhaps it speaks to the timeless world I attempted to paint through imagery.

Lyrics

It was just past midnight Oh what a delight of a heavy dew Flight sets in I hear the colours from the South I stop hush my mouth and I turn away

Sound of night turns to light I open my eyes to a see through view The feeling, cool breeze to another kind of vow Through the looking glass somehow, a feeling of falling

I never imagined my eyes could perceive It wasn't me I saw me through you It wasn't me I saw me through you I was alone, I was forgotten, time had rotten Clock struck 12 that night Woman I crashed backdown from Earth With dirt in my mouth the other me vanished and I cried

Comments

@odilongreen 5d

The lyrics are indeed rather impressionistic, but that works well with the kind-of-jazzy, kind-of-folksy, altogether trippy feel of the the intriguing guitar line. I'm not sure I would have tagged this "pop punk," but tags and labels don't really matter anyway: all that matters is if the music takes the listener on a journey, and this definitely does for me.

@graysen 5d

Hmm yeah impressionism is in a way what I was going for even though I didn't personally have this experience. More of a fictional characters impressionistic view of a night where time was experienced unsystematically. And I think pop punk is a fair label. Though I will say I struggle with tags in general on this website. There don't seem to be much options. I would have also done emo and post hardcore as a tag in addition to pop punk. Those genres are characterized by specific musical elements that I felt were represented in the song. Specifically the call and response in the vocals (think Taking Back Sunday) and the way the melody was structured. But yeah for sure to your point no one or no thing fits 100% of the definition of a label. So labels in general are a poor form of communication. It's like a cheap way to present something that requires nuance and eloquence to communicate impeccably. Thanks for listening and thanks for the feed back! feed back is helpful so I do appreciate it