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Solveig Aas

IN THE DARK

Two months a year the sun does not rise where she lives

style

  • nordic folk
  • ambient
  • hardanger fiddle
  • field recordings
  • female soprano
  • ethereal and breathy
  • vast reverb
  • arctic stillness
  • norwegian accent
  • still

the numbers

bpm
129
key
F major
energy
0.70
dance
0.92
valence
0.31
vocal at
4.0s
length
3:08
language
No

lyrics

(in the dark)

People think it is romantic and they say so kindly
The Arctic and the silence and the two months of night
It is cold and it is long and it is mostly boring
And it is the only room where nobody can watch me try

In the dark (in the dark)
Only in the dark
Ten months silent, in the dark
In the dark

In the dark, in the dark, in the dark, in the dark
An audience is a mirror and I cannot sing at one
In the dark, in the dark, in the dark, in the dark
Take the mirror out and what is left is just a voice

My doctor wrote something down and did not believe me.
It is not sadness. It is not a season. It is much simpler.
I am a coward with good acoustics and November is my permission.

In the dark, in the dark, in the dark, in the dark
An audience is a mirror and I cannot sing at one
In the dark, in the dark, in the dark, in the dark
Take the mirror out and what is left is just a voice

(in the dark...)
IN THE DARK — Solveig Aas · FERAL