Watch & Yearn

by Extraterrestrial Cat Lady

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This song was first conceived of in the early months of 2021.Initially, it was intended as a floating dirge carried by a consistent bass-line. The lyrical content was very much a reaction to the world around me at the time. A world ravaged by a novel virus and all the proxy-maladies seeping into people's minds one by one. It was also a reflection on the state of mind I found myself in - one not entirely foreign to me even before the pandemic, but ever more absurd and unreal now that the world was on hold.

The arrangement has changed quite a bit from the initial intention. But that's the beauty of early, open concepts - they are subject to an evolution of sorts. So now it became this wailing, watery Darkwave tune with a few hints and nods to Suicide, Blade Fetish, Brian Eno, Bowery Electric, even the Magnetic Fields and modern era Nick Cave. I quite like how it turned out. Hope you enjoy it.

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lyrics

Turn with the change below
Specs and sprites awash
In the ocean blue

Riverbound souls as we are
Riverbound souls as we are

And as I sit by the windowsill
Watching every train go by
Like vacant vessels
Drifting on the ocean (Sounds of the deep)
I watch and yearn

Will I ever hear your voice again?
Will I ever hear your voice again?

And I sit here
Chasing phantoms (Sounds of the deep)

Watching and yearning
Watching and yearning
Watching and yearning

Watching and yearning
Watching and yearning ...

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released May 29, 2022
Vocals, composition and arrangement by Ben DeFinster

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Extraterrestrial Cat Lady Vienna, Austria

Extraterrestrial Cat Lady is an amalgamation of Ben DeFinster's (Velvet Doomsday, collaborator of The Bassenger) solo-oddities. A lo-fi mishmash of old and new, a transgressive blend of different genres. Dilettante as it gets, DIY as fuck.

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