Rear Window - The Lowest Bitter featuring *Balance Lost*

Liner Notes:SpoilerSo this song is about nostalgia. I was thinking about how much of our culture is now geared towards remakes and reissues and reunion tours of bands playing their old records in full, and what that says about us and our relationship with the present ( which is pretty terrible) and future (probably gonna be even worse), and then I found this article about how nostalgia can reduce death anxiety - https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... ial_threat.

That morphed into this song where I'm telling a story about how we try to distract or delude ourselves from the inevitable. This is maybe stretching the two different perspectives thing, as both perspectives are me. I'm playing the weird, anxious, irrational part of my brain which overanalyses everything and manages to make the most innocuous things - for example, the Final Fantasy VII remake - into an existential crisis. I mean seriously, what's wrong with me? Pete is playing the more rational part of my brain telling me to get the fuck over myself and chill the fuck out. But he's also playing himself, because I'm pretty sure he has commented on one of my songs in the past with something along the lines of "shut up you melodramatic dickhead". Pretty sure he enjoyed calling me a dickhead again.

Musically, I've taken on board criticisms of a couple of my songs lacking progression - I'm definitely guilty of finding a loop I like and sticking with it for an entire song. So I really tried to make this song a bit more interesting and surprising. The structure is - I think - Verse / Pre-Chorus / Verse / Bridge / Pre-Chorus / Middle-8 / Pre-Chorus / Chorus / Chorus / Chorus / Chorus. I wanted it to feel like time rushing away from you, so I decided to make the song start abruptly, with no intro, and have those skittering drums that kind off feel like time ticking away, and then made the song speed up at the end and then cut off abruptly. I'm pretty pleased with this one, definitely feel like it's my strongest Nur Ein entry yet.

LYRICS
they call it nostalgia
it's really more like fear of the future, you know,
it's just easier to turn and fix your gaze
out of the rear window

we're sat in the backseat
and there's nothing we can do
ask the driver to stop speeding
but we're racing towards doom

focus on the past
because you're scared of what's ahead
but the Final Fantasy VII remake
won't make you any less dead

(woo!)
yeah CGI the Lion King
(what?)
cannibalise the culture
(woo!)
it won't save you from dying
(what?)
just carrion, and we're the vulture
(woo!)
and we're gonna be rotting
(what?)
soon enough
(woo!)
drown in memory,
don't think about that stuff

we're sat in the backseat
and there's nothing we can do
ask the driver to stop speeding
but we're racing towards doom

*shut it Jed, it's not that deep
nobody else is losing sleep
thinking about this shit
don't diagnose society,
with your own death anxiety.
and all these game and film remakes
they aren't about mortality
stop making everything about death
dickhead
*
...but we're sat in the backseat
and there's nothing we can do
ask the driver to stop speeding
but we're racing towards doom

the car is heading for a crash
so I turn and look out of the rear window
Because staring back into the past
is easier than coming to terms with the end
the car is heading for a crash
so I turn and look out of the rear window
Because staring back into the past
is easier than coming to terms with the end
(*shut it Jed, it's not that deep
nobody else is losing sleep
thinking about this shit*)
so I turn and look out of the rear window
(*shut it Jed, it's not that deep*)
it's easier than coming to terms with the end
(*shut it Jed, it's not that deep
nobody else is losing sleep
thinking about this shit*)
so I turn and look out of the rear window
(*shut it Jed, it's not that deep*)
it's easier than coming to terms with the end
(*shut it Je-*)