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Membrane

Release date: 21st February 2020

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'Membrane' by Arca is a 2020 track from the album '@@@@@ [Arroba]'. The lyrics revolve around work in Customs, a sense of secure routine, and the private mental shift of “taking the liberty” to read a text differently, set against a sparer, almost conversational verse structure. An instrumental passage frames the writing, then the words gather into slow-dance imagery where touch never arrives, before landing on that deliberate act of re-interpretation. The overall tone feels analytical and self-directed, as if the speaker is quietly re-routing meaning from within procedure.

"Membrane" is a track by Arca, from the album @@@@@ [Arroba], released 21st February 2020. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Arca.

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Arca

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Membrane

[Instrumental]

[Verse]

Wondered the General

During those slow dances where no one touched, no one touched

A position in Customs was a good secure job

Customs was a good secure

Working directly with such strange

I have decided to take the liberty of reading this text in a different way

I will continue reading the text

Although not respecting the order of words

I've lost my respect the amount of times I wasn't saying a particular word

That they would prioritize

To create a pattern of reading

Griefly misunderstanding

Misrepresented and conflated

Misrepresented and conflated

To find new surprises in the way in which I read

Working directly in Transport was probably more exciting and fun to watch in the movies but really, such a strange and proper Alona

The music's slow dances were secure

Take any of them, take any million

Who are they? And what do they want?

Most famous poet in five explored galaxies

The streetlights came on and his image glazed before they let an expression fix their face, or the blind man

Till age thirty, of half a century in his craggy face

Surprise, he thought

She puts her hand on the bar

Slow dances where no one touched

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Arca
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2020
  1. —Murciélaga
  2. —Saintly Pride
  3. —Phantasy
  4. —Recursion
  5. —Avasallada
  6. —Amputee
  7. —Apuro
  8. —Amantes
  9. —Chipilina
  10. —Construct
  11. —Cypher
  12. —Devastation
  13. —Dysphoria
  14. —X
  15. —Gaita
  16. —Heaventsent
  17. —Monstrua
  18. —Mujere
  19. —Pacifier
  20. —Predator
  21. —Travesti
  22. —Survivors
  23. —Turner
  24. —Psychosexual
  25. —No Lo Digas
  26. —Membrane
  27. —Form
  28. —Bebé
  29. —Diva

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