Name: Looking Down
Duration: P00H03M00S
Description: This song is about getting distracted by your phone or using it to procrastinate, and losing lots of time and opportunities while "looking down". The original plan was to make a shoegaze track, so we soaked it in reverb and delay as much as we could without sacrificing sonic coherency.

thanks, brain - Looking Down

from SpinTunes 20 Round 1 by Spintunes

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about

This song is about getting distracted by your phone or using it to procrastinate, and losing lots of time and opportunities while "looking down". The original plan was to make a shoegaze track, so we soaked it in reverb and delay as much as we could without sacrificing sonic coherency.

lyrics

yearning for life
but nothing satisfies
looking down is oh so nice
twinkling sounds and flashing lights
time
time goes
so slow
time
time
goes so slow

Hermes' cart
Scrolls east to west
I'm looking down
I'm looking down
A list of things
I haven't done yet
I'm looking down
I'm looking down

a buzz in class
conversations pass
walking home through the leaves
dodging perilous machines

Hermes' cart
Scrolls east to west
I'm looking down
I'm looking down
A list of things
I haven't done yet
I'm looking down
I'm looking down

The lights turn off
Staring back from the screen
All the time I lost
The opportunities
A whole day's waste
Neglected plans
Would one more taste
Be all that bad?

credits

from SpinTunes 20 Round 1, released March 21, 2023

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