Bugs Trapped in Amber (Half Lives version)

Story Behind The Song

Inspired by the novel Slaughterhouse Five, it is a musing on death and time-- is death, physical or metaphorical, truly the end? Are we doomed to remain stuck in our place in the timeline, traveling only in one direction?

Song Description

Inspired by the novel Slaughterhouse Five, it is a musing on death and time-- is death, physical or metaphorical, truly the end? Are we doomed to remain stuck in our place in the timeline, traveling only in one direction? Alt rock song featuring piano, musing on time and loss through wordplay and hyperbolic lyrics.

Song Length 3:39 Genre Rock - Alternative, Rock - Alternative
Tempo Fast (151 - 170) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Distressed, Restless Subject History, Past, Darkness
Similar Artists Paramore, Anberlin Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

on my window sill is still
the cheapest rose
it used to bloom in red
but now it's dead
a single rose
dead, and so it goes
your eyes could sparkle like emerald lies
in the right light but
escaping from beneath a starless sheet
i breathe and then the light goes
or so it goes
if there is a light that never dies
then what is this darkness in front of my eyes
they say when it's over
you will know
i sent it off
that love is dead
dead and so it goes
i'm carrying your weight in every step like i'm on house arrest
when they let me out i was homeless
i'll just put myself back in again
freedom is a happier sound
but it's slow
and so it goes

Lyrics Kaia Kalise Music Kaia Kalise
Producer Dustin Sission Publisher Kaia Kalise
Performance Kaia Kalise, Dustin Sisson, Brendan Franklin
This track is on 3 Member Playlists
Playlist Creator Playlist Name Date Added
Ionut Mirel Udrea Best Rock- Alternative Songs 1/19/2018
Ionut Mirel Udrea My Top Songs 1/19/2018
Ionut Mirel Udrea Best Rock 1/19/2018

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