Brother Baker - Cobalt, and Fading

from SpinTunes 18 Round 1 by Spintunes

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The inspiration for this song came from the newly released Thrice album “Horizons / East”. We wanted to incorporate some of the key elements in their song structures. To accomplish this, we first focused on the piano and bass parts to build out our song, and played with time signatures, using 7/4 in the verses and switching to 6/4 in the chorus.

The lyrics were a fun write. We used the emotions associated with blue, gray and silver (the components of cobalt blue) in the verses. In the chorus/bridge, we make references to the chemical compound of cobalt which takes a large amount of heat to create the blue hue and is toxic to breathe.

lyrics

Stuck, I’m getting lost in the sky
Stuck, I’m like a mirror inside
Clear, bright, empty and blue
Blink twice, and I lose the hue

Gray, the fog that clouds in my mind
Gray, the shapes that obscure the sky
I try to grab the silver lining
It blurs, and I am finding

The colors are mixing

I long for vibrance,
I can’t find it
I feel like Cobalt
With no warmth

Stalled, I start to feel the luster fade
Stalled, I see the silver shift to gray
And behind, the endless blue
Keeps losing its vibrance, too

Wishing shades of gray would end
Trying to embrace the blend
I am so much more than blue
With silver and gray streaked through

And still they keep mixing

I long for vibrance,
I can’t find it
I feel like Cobalt
With no warmth

I want to shine,
I want to show the world everything that I can be
But when I try
Each breath feels like breathing cobalt toxicity

I long for vibrance,
I can’t find it
I feel like Cobalt
With no warmth

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from SpinTunes 18 Round 1, released October 4, 2021

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