FAWM: "Fall Away"

Fall Away

2 days ago by @robcrusade

Fall Away

robcrusade

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Liner Notes

This year, I left my husband.

So he's going to show his mug in my songs for the first time in a looooong time, and he will likely wish he hadn't.

Ah well.

But this one has been 2/3 done on my hard drive for a while. And my instrument choices were atrocious, so we fixed that too.

#finish_it

Lyrics

All of my life, all of my time All of my love and most of my mind I'd like to fall away Like to fall away

All of my hope, all of my dreams All of my pain, each one of my screams I'd like to fall away

All I can do, and all you can blame I follow the rules and you change the game I want to fall away

We're past our time to linger on If it'll help, I'll pretend I was wrong I need to fall away

Comments

@nancycunning 1d

I was moved by noticing how the word fall hides inside the word follow. The song hit me as a lament about the long term emptiness of following someone else’s lead and suppressing yourself as a strategy for maintaining connection. The unwinding of anxious attachment as a way to cope with the world. Sorry it’s not just a song where you imagine that kind of pain.

@robcrusade 19h

No need to be sorry, we all learn lessons. This one just took 23 years. :)

@pippa 1d

This is really moving. I know both the "follow the rules and you change the game" and the "if it'll help, I'll pretend I'm wrong." DAMN! The comments below about the feel of walking through an empty house are spot on.

@musiquetaboue 1d

That swirling vocal is neat. It's got a deep dark gothic feel from the reverby piano and distorted guitar.

@gwenthered 2d

Oh... this is... I love this. The melancholy mood and space. I love the evolution of going from "I'd like to fall away" to "I need to fall away".

@coolparadisoMod 2d

It really does have an empty building feel! oooo that vocal screaming from ear to ear! Has a real ghouly feel! lovely guitar in there as well! Very compelling piece

@billwhite51 2d

the piano seems to be sadly wandering through the rooms of a house now empty. i like the strange spoken words beneath the music and then the processed vocal coming to the fore in a mournful, ghostly "falling away"

@robcrusade 2d

I feel like the lyrics could have been more poetic, I suppose, but I've been trying to say what I actually feel, which is kind of new for me.

Thanks for the comments!