Hot Pink Halo - Aim High

from SpinTunes 21 Round 1 by Spintunes

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I spent a few days this week in Paris, and dammit if that place doesn't bury itself in your soul. While there we visited Versailles, The Eiffel Tower, did a Revolution themed walking tour and observed some of the streets that have gone car free over the past few years. I posted a little video from one of those streets over on instagram and a bunch of French people actually saw it. It's definitely the first time I've had a discussion entirely in a language other than English happen on one of my posts. The first commenter suggested only tourists like the car free streets, but a handful of Parisians also came along and argued that they liked many aspects of the change and that we have to start somewhere. Aim high. I was reminded of one of the engineering principals from the Eiffel Tower (a proposal that also wasn't universally loved when it was first suggested) about Elasticity: "the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence and return to its original size and shape when that influence or force is removed". It feels like this could very much also apply to automobiles in big cities like Paris. Incidentally, the theory of elasticity in engineering and mathematics was developed by Sophie Germain, the one French mathematician whose name wasn't included on the Eiffel Tower at its unveiling.

The beat on this track is made from a recording climbing the stairs of the Eiffel Tower.

lyrics

Love more
Love deep
Love the fight
For the peace
Find a piece of the place
That you trust
This city has you by the heart

Lève les yeux,
On est tous amis ici,
On veut tous voir les étoiles

Aim high
Brush the rust off
Take a leap
And build a staircase
To the sky
You can do it
If you work with the wind
Cut the cord, refuse to die
You can do it
You can do it
You can do it
You just gotta aim high

Like this
Like that
Like for like
For a change
Find that change in the streets
That you love
This city sings inside your blood

Nous brillons tous ici,
Nous voulons lever
Les yeux et voir nos amis

Aim high
Brush the rust off
Take a leap
And build a staircase
To the sky
You can do it
If you work with the wind
Cut the cord, refuse to die
You can do it
You can do it
You can do it
You just gotta aim high

What doesn’t bend breaks
What doesn’t bend breaks
What doesn’t bend breaks
What doesn’t bend breaks
We’re all gears in the same machine
Just trying to figure out what it all means
If we just sit here eating cake
We’ll never see the path that the boomerang takes

Aim high
Brush the rust off
Take a leap
And build a staircase
To the sky
You can do it
If you work with the wind
Cut the cord, refuse to die
You can do it
You can do it
You can do it
You just gotta aim high
Brush the rust off
Take a leap
And build a staircase
To the sky
You can do it
If you work with the wind
Cut the cord, refuse to die
You can do it
You can do it
You can do it
You just gotta aim high

credits

from SpinTunes 21 Round 1, released September 5, 2023

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