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Pareidolia
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Lucky Spoon

Entry from Pareidolia in Nur Ein XVI.

Use of field recording

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Intro
Sometimes when you look in the mirror
You see things that you don’t want to see
And they’re not things you didn’t know about
They’re things you didn’t want to face
You’ve spent so long trying to see things in yourself that just weren’t there
Or at least convince other people to see them
It’s like lying in your bed, staring at the ceiling
Making a whole world out of the shapes you see
Watching the characters interact and wondering what it’d be like to live in your ceiling world
But eventually you realize there’s nothing more than texture on the ceiling
And you’re still lying alone in your empty room

Chorus
When you are sleeping in you bed
And all you see is dark
You face the images of
Who you really are

Verse
Quick hold back another day
Always watch what you say
Keep that look you wanna see
Don’t face that reality

You’re not changing now
It’s been far too long
So hold on some how
Before it’s all gone

Turnaround
But I am what you see
Yes I am what you see
Does it matter that it
Is illusionary?

That’s the question I’m asking
No I’m not try to pass as a phony
I know me now just let me be

Chorus
When you are sleeping in you bed
And all you see is dark
You face the images of
Who you really are

Reviews

2 posted notes

j$

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The spoken word intro makes me think of "The Midnight Gospel", thankfully it goes to stranger (and better) places than that. It suffers from the "look at my sensitivity" trope that I have witnessed a fair few times this round, but I like the melody so I think it gets the pass from me. Also suitably short.

Pigfarmer Jr

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Your field recording works as an intro/outro. But that's kind of an easy way out, I think. Did you use it elsewhere in the song? I'm not a huge fan of spoken word parts but when they work they work. It works here. Your mix might be just a bit dense. Could be a hair cleaner. I was thinking that might be ear fatigue, but I at least noticed it now listening back as I type this review up.
So pareidolia is seeing an item or object in an unrelated pattern or composition, right? But seeing a "good person" in the mirror etc., isn't, right? I feel a large part of your song is technically not pareidolia, "who you really are", but it works very well combined with the "ceiling world" which obviously is.

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