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Gray Matter

 
uploaded: Sat, Oct 26, 2024 @ 10:02 PM
bySnowflake
FeaturingDeeplastik, Onlymeith, Javolenus, audiotechnica
length4:14
BPM85
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With an impressive library of polished productions, I listened to dozens of Deeplastik’s tracks for sheer enjoyment! Then The Edge spoke to me and I started writing a melody and lyrics within minutes.

I have a hand injury that makes editing in my DAW really difficult so it was a gift to write to Deeplastik’s instrumental with only a couple of minor edits. I also played bass throughout and a couple of different string parts and piano in the first section. Everything else is Deeplastik’s mix. Singing to Deeplastik felt very natural and enjoyable!!!

These lyrics are a reflection of the deep personal shadow work I’m doing — music is such a cathartic way to process and leads to growth and healing.

Over the last 20 years there’s been nothing more fulfilling than making music with this treasured community. You give my life meaning, you hear what’s in my heart, you support me and each other — what a rare gem ccMixter is!

Thank you all for being my home, my friends, my passion in life.

Happy Emerald Anniversary ccMixter! Happy 20th Birthday!!! Let’s keep it going for another 20!!!

xxxxxxx

Gray Matter
by Madam Snowflake

My mirror is broken
Fractured in unspoken ways
The form of a pangolin
Exposed another demon today

Give me grace

Handed down, handed down
Buried in boxes six feet underground
Yet alive today
Haunting my DNA
Hiding in shadows and my shades of gray

Checkerboard patterns
Sun square to Saturn in space
Rifle, conception
Shame and rejection
Give me grace
Feed my faith

Handed down, handed down
Burden of weight never measured in pounds
Breaking today
Down in my DNA
Hiding in shadows and my shades of gray

I’m on the edge
I cannot stretch
These limbs any farther
it’s over, it’s over
I’m on the ledge
Held up by this flesh
Can’t run any farther
It’s over, it’s over

Handed down, handed down
Buried in boxes six feet underground
Yet alive today
Haunting my DNA
Handed down, handed down
Burden of weight never measured in pounds
Breaking today
Down in my DNA
Hiding in shadows and my shades of gray

Give me grace
Give me grace
Give me grace
 

"Gray Matter"
by Snowflake

2024 - Licensed under
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Editorial pick

Using the complex and moody minor key layers of Deeplastik’s The Edge, which itself comes from another master of moody dark music, OnlyMeith, snowflake paints a gothic picture of the burden of ancestry and mortality, using the beautiful heredity of ccMixter.org to illustrate it.

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