One of my more unusual titles...
At the most basic level, this is about the difference between our real and online personalities. The Internet allows a strange anonymity, with communities in which you can be anyone that you choose to be, almost becoming like a second life in itself. You can escape the mundanity of your everyday life and become anything, without thinking about any consequences in the real world. But if you are so different when you're "anonymous", which one is who you really are?
In another very different introduction, I've used an Eastern-style chord instrument along with more acoustic samples than usual. I think this is another song with a lot of power behind it, but because of the major key and the voice instrument it could be misinterpreted as too happy-sounding. It was in an attempt to get around that that I decided to use two different versions of the chorus - one major and one minor that appears in the middle. The instrumental section is also quite diverse, experimenting with different drum patterns as well as some unusual chord shifts.
[Lyrics]
I live a perfect life
Free of the chaos in the minds of others
The world before me now
Can be explained in every glyph and number
But sometimes don't you want to see your past revive
And the chance to leave behind your ordered life
You made me to protect another hidden side of you
I've come to life, we are a heart split in two
(Split in my mind)
Two souls combined
They are two souls combined, exist in one mind
Eternally fighting, but carried side by side
With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified
Competing for one life, they'll fight until they die
The time has changed us all
Forgot the promise, put the past behind me
My task throughout my life
To bring an order to the world before me
Inside I long for havoc and the chaos controlled
I'll be your torturer for now and ever more
The gates are open, I will show you, step inside
My invitation, this device against your mind
(Carried side by side)
Fight against your mind
They are two souls combined, exist in one mind
Eternally fighting, but carried side by side
With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified
Competing for one life, they'll fight until they die
Together they would be strong
The fighting sides that make the parts of me
If you cannot see that we are the same
I'll walk inside your shadow for eternity
They are two souls combined, exist in one mind
Eternally fighting, but carried side by side
With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified
Competing for one life, they'll fight forever
Two souls combined, exist in one mind
Eternally fighting, but carried side by side
With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified
Competing for one life, they'll fight until they die
Two souls, one mind
A heart split in two that exists in one life
Eternally fighting, existence entwined
Together they walk side by side
Two souls in one mind
Comments
Susake Says:
wow awesome! oO
Broshmosh Says:
Instantly a different sound to your earlier work, reminding me at first of a more contemporary sellout band, but there are definitely the core Newton factors in there - great lyrics, brilliant melodies and mounds of talent enough to cover the whole of America and then some.
Broshmosh Says:
And still bloody hard to sing xD
Merina Says:
Brillliiiiiiiiiiant
AngelsDontKill Says:
Honestly, this sounded very strange at the beginning. However, as it flowed onto the main melodies, it sounded great. Once again, you've created something amazing. I guess the very beginning sounded like it was going through different ideas kind of fast.
NJB Says:
as soon as it started with the panning hum from left to right, I started enjoying it. then it kicked into the style that is characterisitic of your work and I clicked the Download link!
Catfeesh Says:
This song really speaks to me. I think I love you. No, no -- I know I do. This is definitely going on my MP3 player.
DesLacoda Says:
Another Excellently structured and excuted track, certainly one of my favourites. The acoustic sound you have is pretty good, although you sort of dropped it completely after the second verse, I would've like to have heard abit more of it, but that's just me.
+ed
Shylla Says:
That was amazing! I tried to follow the lyrics too X3 This is a music that goes into you!
apkyo Says:
Very catchy with interesting beats~!! And I love the lyrics! Is there another version with vocals singing those lyrics?