Millimeters of Mercury - Immortal

February 8, 2014 6:18 PM

A cutesy synthpop commentary on basic human nature, fears, religion, why we think what we think and do what we do, and our place in the universe.

Is it all downhill from here?
We've climbed for so long, and for once
It'd be nice to be content
Instead of driven on

But it is sure as hell not like us
To be just fine with things as they are
Everyone is a dreamer, knows the grass is greener
Always wishing on a star.

Just gotta be a champion now
Don't be afraid of unknowns ahead
'Cause urgency is what makes this life worthwhile
You can be timid when you are dead!
As far as I can see it's all that we have...
Somehow that makes me feel so alive.
I'm not just gonna give this all away now,
Betting on a cosmic compromise.

Born out of stars looking through
A cosmic lineage
Traced back by newcomer's wide-open eyes
Escaping from the crib

We can't be stopped,
We're only set back
By our delusions of what we are,
Want to be everlasting, we're never grasping
That we'll never make it that far.

Just gotta be a champion now
Don't be afraid of unknowns ahead
'Cause urgency is what makes this life worthwhile
You can be timid when you are dead!
As far as I can see it's all that we have...
Somehow that makes me feel so alive.
I'm not just gonna give this all away now,
Betting on a cosmic compromise.

Immortal greed,
Immortal fears,
We're the wrench
In the cosmic gears.
Pushing on
Blood, sweat, and tears,
Blink of an eye
A thousand years...

[Synthesizer attempts to woo you with cuteness]

Just gotta be a champion now
Don't be afraid of unknowns ahead
'Cause urgency is what makes this life worthwhile
You can be timid when you are dead!
As far as I can see it's all that we have...
Somehow that makes me feel so alive.
I'm not just gonna give this all away now,
Betting on a cosmic compromise.

posted by dacre (2 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite

I find the autotune on your voice really distracting on this - it works ok on the middle section, but on the rest I'd rather hear your voice in its natural state, or perhaps more hyper-processed. This mid-level autotune just reminds me of the music I made when I was younger and more paranoid about singing out of tune :)

Anyway, now I've done my bit of projecting my own issues onto your song, I should say that I like the rest! It reminds me of the Postal Service.
posted by greenish at 8:57 AM on February 11, 2014


I often don't like autotune very much, but on this song the autotuning seems to have some lyrical relevance--the partial distortion of your voice into the mold of autotune feels analogous to the ways in which we attempt to shoehorn and distort our lives, with mixed success, into what we think they should be. So in this particular context I think what you've done actually works for me.

Anyway, yes! This is a fun song. Thank you! :)
posted by beryllium at 6:13 AM on March 5, 2014


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