Build Up the Tension

7 weeks ago by @hmstreetteam

Build Up the Tension

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Liner Notes

After building up the tension so well in “Rocket Ready,” it seemed like a good time to revisit this song title, which had failed previously. Its earlier iteration two weeks ago had given me only a chord progression and half of a chorus. I had thought of it as the first half of the chorus, but you hear it here rewritten as the second half of the chorus, where it fits better. I stripped out the ideas that fit the mood of “Rocket Ready” so I could write something distinct and more narrowly focused. It was the narrow focus that made the lyrics work. In this final form, the lyrics only describe the experience of being the target of an inadvertent remote seduction spell. With the slow tempo, there was no room for anything else. Even this much is probably very mysterious in 54 total words. The tempo of 66 bpm did not feel slow enough, so I slowed it down to 55. This is well outside my tempo comfort zone so that I had to carefully count every measure, but that’s the beauty of having the beat algorithmically generated.
#casiocore
All instrumental notes are provided by the Casio chord feature.
#1chordprogression
The 44-beat chord progression throughout (excluding the coda) is Bb C Eb F Bb F.

Lyrics

An energy trace
Remote presence
In depth
The power of place
Clairsentience
Power of breath

Inhale
Hold
Hot
Cold
Fire and ice on a mission
Go slow unbearably slow
Let it all go
Build up the tension

A secret to tell
No surrender
Drawn in
A hypnotic spell
Words on paper
Finger on skin

Inhale
Hold
Hot
Cold
Fire and ice on a mission
Go slow unbearably slow
Let it all go
Build up the tension

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