Name: Listen
Duration: P00H05M37S
Description: Listen delves into the conflicting feelings within interpersonal relationships, but also shares a general sentiment of human suffering, how piercing it is and how clinically it can be seen by an objective view. It’s a narrative that switches between detached observation and heartfelt reminiscence

Listen

by ASTER YVS

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Listen delves into the conflicting feelings within interpersonal relationships, but also shares a general sentiment of human suffering, how piercing it is and how clinically it can be seen by an objective view. It’s a narrative that switches between detached observation and heartfelt reminiscence

lyrics

Section 1 - Observer

Take it off you silly lion
This world is not for swords and shields
Pensive action takes its toll
And the spotlight shows the desolate holes
I've come down to Earth from Heaven
Where the worms and rats cite their objections
And in every window a sign is reading
Pensive action has no place

Section 2 - Ode

Somewhere in this city
We're still walking,
the mud covering each step
Count the cars as they go,
for their evening circles
Expecting the wheels to fly off
And you,
keep me steady as we rattle along
Til the morning light,
they leave the TVs on
And
As the static rises to my right
I have no right to ask,
there's that glimpse in your eyes

Now I'm curled up
Baby, to the sound of your words
They comfort and kill me
As you take your pause to,
paint a picture of the storm that's brewing
Cascade of red, blue, sad, green rain
Never dimming
And now I'm
Curled up, Baby, to the sound of your voice
It's familiar and brooding
Asking

Listen, Desolation
Coming up from the drains
Listen, Desolation
Running off of the spires
Listen, Desolation
Alive in the hum
Listen, Desolation
Coming up from the drains

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released January 26, 2024
All lyrics and music by ASTER YVS
Mixed by Alyssa Smillie
Mastered by Steve Kitch

Kyle Cuthbert: guitars, drum machine + samples, synth, backing vocals
Lewis Nicholson: bass
Alyssa Smillie: vocals, lyricist

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