FAWM: "Silence Of The Spell"

Silence Of The Spell

1 week ago by @honeyfeathers

Silence Of The Spell

honeyfeathers

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Liner Notes

OK So before you get too upset that I'm posting anti love songs on Valentine's Day, understand that I am actually at my heart of hearts a real softy and can be quite a romantic, though lately since I have been living alone in Brazil I'm going a little bit insane and have lost a bit of my verve. The whole purpose of love has been thrown into question and now having been living in such profound isolation for so long (more than a year) I am finally feeling like my attachment wounds are healed! It's a miracle. Now this song the other hand, it's about the opposite of that. This whole thing started off as a cautionary thing about one of my close friends who rushed out of a really bad breakup of a long long relationship into an immediate rebound marriage that I fear will destroy him, and then the song somehow morphed into a tale of man being blown up on an ocean oil rig.. romantic, I know.. ;) I have to mention that the lyric there towards the end that has some really vivid gas passing imagery was not intentional as such. That will have to be reworked for the studio version. hahahah jeez... only on fawm...

#folktronica

Lyrics

felt like glass above the water of a whale the railing of the stairway as I held against the gale a wiser man than I by just the moon would have set sail to no avail, I am here behind and living out the tale

with the things I always used to sing to fill the air burnt bare among the lightning and its color changing hair singeing off the ribbons left from when birthdays were there it was so rare, and how it leaves me now, so empty I don’t care

because it never was real a wound that never healed

felt like time was burning golden in the morn the porn of cornmeal pancakes to a hungry thrust of thorns a wiser man than I by his own calm would not have sworn but I was torn between the future and for the past to be reborn

the things I used to think would break open the bell the smell, as I felt the gas come blasting from the well choking on the chasm in between the oceans’ swell and as I fell, I felt nothing for the lovers they would tell.

because it never was real a wound that never healed

Comments

@newukenewyork 4d

Such a cool song! I appreciated your liner notes about how the story evolved (and I think you'll find many FAWMers love an anti-love song). I really like these lyrics. "the porn of cornmeal pancakes to a hungry thrust of thorns" is an incredible line. Do I know what it means? No, but I FEEL like I might if I keep sitting with this song. That refrain is a kick-in-the-pants and the found-object-sounding percussion is perfection. Really, really, nice composition.

@mbmusic 6d

I really like it! It's got a nice vibe and melody to it. Vocals and guitar sound great! I did the whole love song on Valentine’s just to be cliché. Also, I was doing the F Am challenge, which was challenging enough only using 2 chords, so I chose sappy lyrics cause they are much easier to write than more interesting lyrics like this. So great job on the anti-Valentine song! I dig it!