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Alien Inside

Release date: 2nd December 2021

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About This Track

'Alien Inside' by Arca is a 2021 electronic track from 'kick iiii'. The lyrics work through a cosmic, body-haunted sequence of memory and self recognition, moving from starlight to inner alienation, then into a grimly devotional register with lines about “the alien inside”. The language keeps circling first death, last birth, and the insistence on remembering, as if identity is both mutation and comfort. It is abstract, repetitive, and intent on turning the spiritual idea of belief into something harsher, more lived in.

"Alien Inside" is a track by Arca, from the album kick iiii, released 2nd December 2021. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Arca.

About the Artist

Arca

Arca

Lyrics

Alien Inside

A star

A soft memory turning away from starlight to self

Asking to remember

The first death

The last birth

The first time you recognised the alien inside

In the face of abject misery

You remember, remember, remember the posthuman celestial sparkle

A mutant faith

A mutant faith

An identity, be

Perhaps nothing but a chance construct

Your vanity (Construct)

Your vanity, or your sanctuary

Your vanity (Construct)

Your vanity, or your sanctuary

Your sanctuary, or your sanctuary

Or your sanctuary

Or your sanctuary

-tuary

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Track details

From kick iiii

2021
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kick iiii
kick iiii
Arca
2nd December 2021
Release year
2021
  1. 1Whoresong
    2:15
  2. 2Esuna (feat. Oliver Coates)
    2:19
  3. 3Xenomorphgirl
    2:55
  4. 4Queer (feat. Planningtorock)
    3:30
  5. 5Witch (feat. No Bra)
    3:33
  6. 6Hija
    2:46
  7. 7Boquifloja
    5:23
  8. 8Alien Inside (feat. Shirley Manson)
    2:05
  9. 9Altar
    3:37
  10. 10Lost Woman Found
    4:12
  11. 11Paw
    4:08
  12. —Witch
  13. —Esuna
  14. —Queer
  15. —Alien Inside

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