Fugue is about an apparent paradox in human thinking and feeling – wanting to live life to the fullest, and experience as much as possible, while simultaneously craving the comfort of identity and routine. It’s a chamber pop song, with arpeggiators.
lyrics
Empty vessel
Blank space
Memories cleared like tapes erased
Feel all the shades
Tethers me like a shadow
Sense of ego so hollow
Feel all the shades
Fugue
Drift like the tidal ebb and flow
Rid the sense of afterglow
Feel all the shades
Sell my fears for the comfort of a life by the numbers
Life upon a shelf
Longing to forget myself
Fugue
To be everything
To feel it all
To be everything
Feel at all
Have my job and fixed address
There are some fates worse than death
Life upon a shelf
Longing to forget myself
Fugue
credits
from In the End When We're Dust at Least We Don't Have to Clean the Mess Up,
released August 18, 2023
Greg Hummell – Vocals, Nylon String Guitar, Synthesizer, Fender Rhodes
Luke Margetts – Vocals
Lewis Murray – Electric Guitar, Synth Bass
Ravi Martin – Drums
Kirke Gross – Cello
Adam Garrod – Violin
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