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Noah Dietterich: "It's a political song. You know what a bright-line rule is? The idea is a well-defined rule with such a narrow edge, it's easy to tell which side everyone's standing on. And that's important! I want clear rules where we need them. But it's not always the way the world works. There's no bright line at the start of our lives, no universal line between right and wrong, there isn't a bright line dividing me from you. And this is a society stratified in so many ways with bright lines. If you have any doubt where you fit, the edifice will be only too happy to tell you."
Alex Pfender: "With every sharp division you make, you lose some nuance. The song searches for that lost nuance. One lyric imagines the person who owns the land I'll be buried in: who is he, how does he have more claim to it than I do? Is he a good person? And yet there is someone out there who loves him unconditionally."
Dietterich: "I've spent so much of the last few years just overwhelmed, trying to push in the right direction. So the song ends uncertain – 'what am I fighting for?' – maybe I am fighting, but am I just fighting within the boundaries?"
lyrics
Take my body ‘cross the ocean
Let the world turn below
Take me only where I’m goin’
Don’t you worry ‘bout my soul
Just get me there is all I’m askin’
Back to the place where I was born
Where all we learned about compassion
We had to make up all on our own
Is this a lifetime
No less, no less, no more
Between the bright lines
Oh no, oh no
Is this a lifetime
Say yes, say yes, or no
Between the bright lines
What am I fighting for?
Who owns the land that holds my headstone
Who is the girl that loves him so
Who holds the hand that holds the weapon
We should have buried long ago
Is this a lifetime
No less, no less, no more
Between the bright lines
Oh no, oh no
Is this a lifetime
Say yes, say yes, or no
Between the bright lines
What am I fighting for?
Is this a lifetime between the bright lines?
What am I fighting for?
credits
released December 1, 2017
yOya "Bright Lines"
NPM 1707
Words and music by yOya (Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich)
Noah Dietterich - vocals, synths, piano
Alex Pfender - vocals, guitars, drum programming
Ian Meltzer - drums
Engineered by Greg Cortez at New Monkey Studio and Alex Pfender at Tiny House
Mixed by Eric Palmquist at Palmquist Studios
Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering
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