Animal

from Ley Lines by Alex Bayly

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    8. Lonely Michael
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The lyric I am most proud of on this song and perhaps on my forthcoming album is, 'The boss level burden weight'. In fact the song was called 'Boss Level' as a working title. This lyric has a couple of meanings for me, most obviously referring to a final boss level you would encounter on a computer game. The last high pressure section of game, where all your hard work reaches its intense climax. For me the nostalgia of fighting Bowser on Mario N64 comes rushing back, but now 'Boss level' is a metaphor for the trials of life. Setting up a job, relationships, striving to create art that hopefully can resonate with an audience that isn't contrived and is truly from the heart.

The mood of the song and lyrics feels quite dark, similar to my previous songs like 'New America'. A style people have referred to as my 'sweet spot'. Lol. Bleak folk is my 'sweet spot'. When I hear ‘Animal’s soaring strings, the guitar, bass and drums combined with my lyrics it feels like a deep sea trawler raking the bottom of a seabed disturbing the ground and creating a dense black fog. There is something beyond the lyrics though which is kept or censored as the pre chorus refers too. ‘It’s XXX now’. Sometimes you have to create the allusion of something before it can become real. Writing music is like that. The illusion is that there is something beyond just music which represents the more than just arranged sound.

lyrics

Walking, walking in the dream awake,
The boss level burden weight.
Heavy metal, broken gates

A life with a different take,
Alternate ending place.
On the stake, then lain to waste.

And it’s XXX now.
It’s XXX now.

You made an animal out of me,
You made an animal.
You made an animal out of me.

Falling, falling,
Through the floor,
The breaking of the third wall,
Snake eyed dice the curtain call.

Walking, walking in the dream awake,
The boss level burden weight,
The final resting place.

And it’s XXX now.

You made an animal out of me,
You made an animal.
You made an animal out of me.

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from Ley Lines, track released October 23, 2019

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