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 Title: Lying Awake Artist: Destinee&Adele Album: Mourning Eyes Released: October 26th, 2013 Length: 4:11 Genre: Emo, indie rock, math rock Label: Liberation/Nomad Records
Destinee&Adele hit hard with another single right after their first one from their upcoming sophomore album Mourning Eyes. Their first single, "Dressed and Buttoned Up," was an upbeat masterpiece of poetry, talking about a secret relationship between a woman and her boyfriend - who is married already. The song speaks about even though the woman knows that her boyfriend will never leave his wife, she's still happy to have him and be around him. Sweet, right? We thought so. But this time, our cute little French duo take us back to the type of music that we remember from them before - the slow, melancholy tunes that we came to love them by.
"Lying Awake," the new single by Destinee&Adele, shows us already that Mourning Eyes is going to be another emotional rollercoaster like Not Over You Yet was last year. It immediately starts out with a soft guitar strumming that makes you think, "Oh god, please don't let me cry today..." because that's how emotionally high-strung they've already got you with the title of the song and the art for it. The girl's voices are soft and brilliant throughout the whole song are they spin us another tale of lost love and the ever present hand of time.
The lyrics are another poetry filled emotional slam against anybody who ever hurt the duo, although they don't seem particularly upset about the hurt at this point in time. The song has a feeling of distant hurt, as if they were remembering the time now that they are fully over it, and trying to find meaning in what they went through so long ago. The lyrics seem to be about a man that one of the two girls was in love with a long time ago, but as time went on, they drifted apart, and now they no longer speak. Many of the songs lyrics talk about "Forget-me-nots and marigolds and other things / That don't get old, don't get old," as if they were wishing that time could of stopped for them at the time that they were in love so that they never would have drifted apart from each other. Several inside stories and memories seem to be intertwined throughout the song, making the listener feel almost a little uncomfortable when they listen to it, as if the song were written for only the person the song is talking about to hear, and we're eavesdropping on the situation.
However you feel about the song, it should be no surprise that you do actually FEEL something during it. Destinee&Adele taught us long ago that they are the masters at making you actually feel emotions during their songs rather than just sitting back and letting the music wash over you. Listening to Destinee&Adele's songs is not just a passive thing that you can do. They will make it difficult for you, and you will probably cry. That's just part of the experience. That's just part of the magic."
DestineeAdeleBothAll trees are oaks
All birds are blue
In the mountains of a magnet
Are the mountains of you
I'm proud of my genius, just like a painter
And dumb like a poet, I think I can
I think I can
Just say it from the throats
From the throats of our wrists
With full sets of teeth
Vanilla almond teeth fom vanilla almond tea
Spent afternoons, spent afternoons
Measuring time in spoons
Where forget-me-nots and marigolds and other things
That don't get old, that don't get old
But between one June and September
You're all I remember
I'm a lantern, my head a moon
I married a room
I married a room
All trees are oaks
And all birds are blue, et tu
What's eighty miles to Paris, or eighteen years in the mountains?
Time, time
A southern run for a late longing to drink
Where all tress are oaks and all birds are blue, et tu
Where all trees are oaks
And all birds are blue
I did think everyone was you
Where forget-me-nots and marigolds and other things
That don't get old, don't get old
But between one June and September
You're all I remember
But I'm a lantern, my head a moon
I married a room
I married a room
Forget-me-nots and marigolds and other things that don't get old, don't get old
(Forget me nots and marigolds)
But between one June and September
You're all I remember
(Forget-me-nots and marigolds)
But I'm a lantern, my head a moon
I married a room
(Forget-me-nots and marigolds)
I'll keep my hands in order
And what are the air, lying awake
And what about the air, the air, lying awakeSOUNDS LIKE:American Football - Five Silent Miles
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