FAWM: "The Day They Turned Off Gravity"

The Day They Turned Off Gravity

Liner Notes

I managed to finish another one... hurrah! Quality probably dipping at this point - vocal a bit rough around the edges, arrangement a bit same-y - but what are you gonna do?!

Got a bit carried away with key changes and weird changes here - became almost impossible to find a coherent vocal melody. Ah well. Lyrically, don't ask me - I've no idea where this stuff comes from either 🤷🏼‍♂️

#electronic #apocalypse

Lyrics

Blue skies and a gentle breeze 
A t-shirt will do fine 
Meet a friend for coffee 
A place near yours or near mine?

But twenty minutes into a relaxed stroll
Panic spread across my face 
For gravity had been switched off 
And I drifted into space

I waved at the birds as I floated by 
Their flapping now a futile pursuit 
And there were random objects spinning round
 Like leaves and garbage and fruit

And as I came to accept 
This awful predicament of mine
 It suddenly became all too clear
 That I was running out of time

And I pondered on the question
 Of which ending would be worst? 
The bitter cold, or the lack of air
 And which would get me first?

 The day they turned off gravity
Oh, what a thing to do 
The day they cut the cord
Between the ground and me & you

Comments

@vomvorton 4h

Hate it when this happens.

@carleybaer 5h

The music is perfect for the lyrics, which... now going back I realize I wasn't listening super closely because I was so taken by the floaty vibes. Turns out it's terrifying to be headed toward the hostile vacuum of space! But this song is a sonic treat. I have to go back and listen again now.

@adforperu 8h

Haha, the anti-thesis to This Thing With You & Me. Deliciously eccentric and capricious - it's sort of comfortingly disorientating with the progression, which goes nicely with the lyric.