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diff --git a/album/fortune.yaml b/album/fortune.yaml index 0900b969..aa8deb95 100644 --- a/album/fortune.yaml +++ b/album/fortune.yaml @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ Album: FORTUNE +Style: single Date: April 18, 2019 Date Added: April 13, 2024 URLs: @@ -17,24 +18,9 @@ Color: '#816521' Groups: - horizon - Beyond -Commentary: |- - <i>horizon:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://ohanadyomene.bandcamp.com/track/fortune)) - - full illustration/official audio: [www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLpxTU--0XU](https://youtu.be/cLpxTU--0XU) - - before anything else, this is ultimately a demo! it will be edited more when i go through the big album cleanup later this year, but i have a soft spot for where it is right now, and i don't want to make any more changes until i know what it's going to be paired with. anyway! - - it's difficult for me to talk about this song. i started writing it three years ago in response to the clarion call of a very negative relationship that an ex was trying to revive. "i'm only a body to this person," i thought at the time. - - eventually that line became the chorus, but over the years since i began writing it, my frustration with the subject matter -- greed, abuse, lack of empathy -- broke through into a satirical parroting-back of the things some people would prefer us to be: ever-accommodating supplies of attention and catharsis. - - i wanted to reclaim those "i'm only a body" lines and transform them into something as haunting on its face as it was to me personally... but i also wanted people to know what a surprise they'll be in for should they view others as such. --- Track: FORTUNE Duration: 4:23 -URLs: -- https://ohanadyomene.bandcamp.com/track/fortune -- https://youtu.be/cLpxTU--0XU Lyrics: |- Gnihtemos rof gnitiaw neeb ev'i Em enifer dna ni emoc @@ -99,3 +85,15 @@ Lyrics: |- Come put out the fire in me If that's how you see me If you think it'd be easy +Commentary: |- + <i>horizon:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://ohanadyomene.bandcamp.com/track/fortune)) + + full illustration/official audio: [www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLpxTU--0XU](https://youtu.be/cLpxTU--0XU) + + before anything else, this is ultimately a demo! it will be edited more when i go through the big album cleanup later this year, but i have a soft spot for where it is right now, and i don't want to make any more changes until i know what it's going to be paired with. anyway! + + it's difficult for me to talk about this song. i started writing it three years ago in response to the clarion call of a very negative relationship that an ex was trying to revive. "i'm only a body to this person," i thought at the time. + + eventually that line became the chorus, but over the years since i began writing it, my frustration with the subject matter -- greed, abuse, lack of empathy -- broke through into a satirical parroting-back of the things some people would prefer us to be: ever-accommodating supplies of attention and catharsis. + + i wanted to reclaim those "i'm only a body" lines and transform them into something as haunting on its face as it was to me personally... but i also wanted people to know what a surprise they'll be in for should they view others as such. |