Silhouetted Skylines (feat. Drive-a-tron)

2 weeks ago by @dasbinky

Liner Notes

Last Tuesday I wandered to the Majestic Theater in Madison to see Mr. Experience himself, Donny Benet. To my surprise, opening the show was Paul from Drive-a-tron, who I knew of, but didn't know. I said hey after the show, and a couple of days later threw out an invite to do a co-write. Paul struck while the iron was hot, and on Saturday morning we had a lovely time jamming to some lovely melancholy pop riffs and eating donuts. After a couple of hours he had to wander off, and I was able to stitch a fun tune together from the ideas we started.

This probably turned out very differently than if we'd done all of the crafting together, but that's not a good or bad thing. It was a lot of fun bridging a set of connected jams into a full production. There's some very cool rhythmic handoffs between the various instruments, which I think Paul was hearing in real-time but I didn't catch explicitly until I was stitching everything together. This is a fun one, and I'm curious to see where he'd go with the melody / lyrics on his own.

It's been ages since I've done an in-person, first-time collab, so that was pretty exciting. And now I know Paul, who seems like an excellent dude. Long live Drive-a-tron! https://www.drive-a-tronmusic.com/

#newwave

Lyrics

V
Back seat city silhouetted skylines
Neon lighting incoherent street signs
Young blood dreaming of the light of day
Feeling like they still have something to say

About the middle of the road that they're running on
The Sling back high heeled marathon
Keeping up with all other rats in the maze
Chasing towards the shape of silhouetted skylines

Always someone asking for money to pay
Giving every reason for running away
Living for that moment on the edge of the night
When it feels like everything you ever wanted just might

Deliver you love and deliver you dreams
And free you from the hum of those remixed machines
Walking through the city searching for those lights
Searching for the shape of silhouetted skylines

C
Everything you think you wanted
Everything you'll never need
Everything that fits inside you
You'll figure out
You'll figure out it's always free

V
Free from heartache and free from pain
Free from anything that at all that might remain
Looking for nirvana at the subway station
Finding that it's really just dissociation

Stare into the distance, start to think it over
Horizon's never really getting any closer
But we all go to the shadows every waking day
Drawn to the shape of silhouetted skylines

C
Everything you think you wanted
Everything you'll never need
Everyplace you've ever haunted
Every word that you've decreed
Everyone that fits inside you
You'll figure out
You'll figure out they're always free

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