Crywolf

DEMO - PHANERON

Added 2025-10-30 03:32:23 +0000 UTC

I always liked this one a lot, it was going to get reworked and used for the original version of the album that ended up becoming Widow. The guy who did the mixing for M83 was actually going to work on it before I pivoted in a completely different direction.

The production on it right now would have just been to communicate the general aesthetic palette -- I definitely would have replaced the percussion (obviously) and probably taken the compositional journey in a more dynamic direction. I really dig the contextual switchup halfway through.

I like the verses and chorus, though it still feels like it represents an older version of my writing; one that relied a bit more on melodic catchiness and emotional sentiments that are generous with their accessibility, versus trying to capture complex and nuanced emotional expression that doesn't necessarily hold the audience's hand and beckon them into understanding.

LYRICS:

Feel my lungs breathing in your pollen
Looking for the spark in your cries
Empty and forgotten
Will you ever feel like you’re home?

A solemn voice
A chorus for the fallen
Once more

I saw your color as it faded
You were begging to be found
Lonely irises, so dialated
Desperate and loud

Without gravity, suspended
Screaming out without a sound
We were tender, broken, lascerated, rising from the ground

We were coming up for air
We were coming up for air
We were coming up for air
We were coming up for air