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Preoccupations

Death

Release date: 20th January 2015

From Viet Cong
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About This Track

'Death' by Preoccupations is a track from the album 'Viet Cong', released in 2015. The lyrics paint a stranded, fractured sense of time, with images of being anchored, current pulling, and “everything’s turning inside out”. A sense of disorientation runs through the verses, as the speaker watches a situation bend out of focus and drift higher, landing on the bleak refrain of another day gone wrong. The song builds its unease through shifting vantage points, from submerged observation to surfaced perception, before tightening into that stranded, broken chorus mood.

"Death" is a track by Preoccupations, from the album Viet Cong, released 20th January 2015. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Preoccupations.

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Preoccupations

Preoccupations

Lyrics

Death

[Verse 1]

Anchored to the bottom, you can see the current

Situation bending in and out of focus

Floating to the surface, you can see much higher

Quality arrangements of the constellations

[Chorus 1]

Stranded and broken, another day

Where everything’s turning inside out

We went too far the other way

We’ll never get home

[Verse 2]

Sail into the shoreline, occupy the picture

Perfect combinations in the grains of sand

[Chorus 1]

Stranded and broken, another day

Where everything’s turning inside out

We went too far the other way

We’ll never get home

[Chorus 2]

Holograms cutting through the lines

March in 4/4 time, hollow shells

Stuttering, convalescent hands

Obvious in what they desire

What does deep midnight’s voice contend

Deeper than day can comprehend?

Accelerated fall, an orbital sprawl

Expanded and swollen

[Bridge]

A catalogue of the passages never seen

Apprehending the instances there have been

Weighing out the occurrences guaranteed

Overlooking the idiosyncrasy

[Chorus 2]

Holograms cutting through the lines

March in 4/4 time, hollow shells

Stuttering, convalescent hands

Obvious in what they desire

What does deep midnight’s voice contend

Deeper than day can comprehend?

Accelerated fall, an orbital sprawl

Expanded and swollen

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Daniel Christiansen, Matt Flegel, Mike Wallace, Preoccupations, Scott Munro
    Producer
    Graham Walsh, Matt Flegel, Scott Munro
    Bass
    Matt Flegel
    Drums
    Mike Wallace
    Guitar
    Daniel Christiansen, Scott Munro
    Vocals
    Matt Flegel
    Mastering Engineer
    Paul Gold
    Mixing Engineer
    Graham Walsh
    Recording Engineer
    Graham Walsh, Scott Munro
    Synthesizer
    Scott Munro
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