Name: What's your Secret, Hermit?
Duration: P00H07M52S
Description: This song is in a microtonal tuning, specifically, 19-tone equal temperament (instead of the usual 12-tone equal temperament).

Stephen Weigel - What's your Secret, Hermit?

from SpinTunes 19 Round 1 by Spintunes

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This song is in a microtonal tuning, specifically, 19-tone equal temperament (instead of the usual 12-tone equal temperament).

lyrics

After accomplishing self-independence, a grim chain of events
So mediocre, compounded by living,
Separation is a given

We are now squandered, placed in our own cubicles
As productive adults
Every piece of advice
I was handed
Was a preparedness for isolation insurance
Acceptance which I reprimand

It doesn’t have to be building this way
Now the tide reins in
Who has to beg their friends slyly to stay?
Us who mainly grew up

Hermit, you live on lucky
Surfeit, no community
Pulpit, no committing to a
Gambit for status

Your inner impetus powers you through all the
darkness of one
Forcefully safely alone in your bunker your
introversion is your crux

After accomplishing self-independence, a grim chain of events
Leads to repetitive stressful disorders and then some more turns
Cleaning up everybody’s mess

Hermit, secretly liking
Walled-in, methods of living
Wouldn’t, give any up for the
World, and it shows

And I’m jealous
I wish I could cut myself off from the world like
You do
You are not merely at peace with adult isolation, but it strengthens you

How? Why? What’s your secret?
How do you turn your back outwards and mean it?

How? Why? What’s your secret?
How do you turn your back outwards and mean it?
How?

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from SpinTunes 19 Round 1, released March 21, 2022
All performance, arrangement, composition is done by me, Stephen Weigel.

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