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Where Does The Light Get In?
You can tell when a band has something special when a new single drops and you get a butterfly of nervous anticipation. That’s the exact feeling I got when ‘Where Does The Light Get In’ arrived.
The song brings the epic. The piano-in-a-huge-space bursts into an intense intro that descends into a verse that only keeps the throbbing low tones. The pre-chorus drops everything right out for a moment of space before the intensity returns for the chorus.
This band is genre-fluid, and this falls on the heavier end of their sound – though the melodic quality remains. The Han/Jim vocal interplay is great in this song and the solo matches the intensity, burning itself out fast and pushing into the final chorus, which is like an awakening.
The song is amplified with a video that captures the atmosphere perfectly and provides a sparse narrative that nevertheless provides the elements needed to increase the punch of the song’s lyrics.
In Their Own Words
Where Does The Light Get In is its own beast that came from a place of great torment and suffering. Matters of the heart are rarely touched by our band but after the last year put me into a place I never wish to return I couldn’t not write this song. It was a necessity.
Han Mee
Sadness doesn’t last forever, but when it consumes you it feels like it’s there for eternity. Essentially this song is a cry out for a change in circumstances. It’s hard seeing someone close to you in pain and feeling powerless to change it. I wanted to exacerbate the vulnerability of this song so I began as stripped back as I could, me and a piano, and played what you can hear as soon as the song starts. We wanted the lyrics to come across almost like a prayer so we brought in the girls in Espera to record a choir and act as the response in the chorus.
Jim Shaw
Where Does The Light Get In – Video
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Where Does The Light Get In – Lyrics
Mother, raise me from my bed
I’ve been eating existential dread for breakfast
This Tempest washed out all the colour coz another
Threw me to the wolves tore out all my ventricles
Put plainly I’m hurting but did I deserve it?Saw the tears on your note
I guess you’re never coming home.Where does the light get in?
Darkness penetrating this is suffocating
Where does the light get in?
Darkness penetrating I’m contaminated
Oh, the things I’d have done for a kiss from the sun
Tell me where does the light get in?Another day draped in dismay
supernova in decay
Affection infection
cross my heart and pray for resurrection
Your hollow ground grew a baron tree
Your false gods lie in debris
You ripped the meat from her bones
And left nothing for the crowsWhere does the light get in?
Darkness penetrating this is suffocating
Where does the light get in?
Darkness penetrating I’m contaminated
Oh, the things I’d have done for a kiss from the sun
Tell me where does the light get in?A permanent eclipse
Night leaks from your lips
I’m choking in a luna waterfall
Caught a dying kiss
Free me from this
Cold love
Fog of warI made my home in hell
There’s a hole in my heart and it’s bleeding
I made my home in hellWhere does the light get in?
Darkness penetrating this is suffocating
Where does the light get in?
Darkness penetrating I’m contaminated
Oh, the things I’d have done for a kiss from the sun
Tell me where does the light get in?
Where does the light get in
Where does the light get in
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