Saturday, February 22, 2014

Dissolution

The second single from Transmission was I'll Give You Electro, released in October 2011. There were three new non-album tracks, the first of which was Dissolution.


I'm not sure we ever really saw this as anything more than a b-side, but there's nothing particularly wrong with it either. The lyrics - particularly the second verse - feel distinctly to me as though they belong on Dusk, and so it should come as no surprise that it was originally written in about 2004.

The lyrics:
You dissolved into the air
Like a ripple in the breeze
Then you sank under the shoreline
With nothing left for me to breathe

Memories, your dissolution
Leaving me in isolation

Far beyond on a wind seeking freedom
And you’re never to be seen again
You dissolve, in a day you go higher
But you’ve never been this high before

Swept away into the distance
On a zephyr to be free
You drift off with leaves and martyrs
With no air left for me to breathe

Perfect times, no confrontation
Then you left this situation

Far beyond on a wind seeking freedom
And you’re never to be seen again
You dissolve, in a day you go higher
But you’ve never been this high before

Memories, your dissolution
Leaving me in isolation

Far beyond on a wind seeking freedom
And you’re never to be seen again
You dissolve, in a day you go higher
But you’ve never been this high before

Far beyond on a wind seeking freedom
And you’re never to be seen again
You dissolve, in a day you go higher
But you’ve never been this high before

And you’ll never fly this high again...

(R. Martin / S. Martin)