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Katie Gately returns with a third track from her forthcoming album, 'Fawn / Brute'
'Cleave' sees Gately turn her textured collages of captured sounds into one of her most direct pop tracks to date. An icy, hook-laden ode to a complex territory often overlooked in the art world:
"‘Cleave’ is about getting a whiff of someone else’s Scahdenfreude and recognizing the only place to run is far, far away" she comments. "I wrote it as I was mustering up the courage to extricate myself from a friendship that was becoming increasingly and perplexingly hostile
While I’ve always loved big, brash heartbroken pop songs, I’ve often wished more of them would probe the murky landscape of platonic fractures. I decided to use my own friendship-heartbreak as an offering into this slippery realm.
My hope is the song might nudge the listener to stick up for themselves when someone else is hoping they will stay small. Even though this choice can be terribly impractical and lonely, it’s often one of great relief." ~ Katie Gately
LYRICS
I am never gonna hold you up on a big, tall shelf again
Yes, I’m clever and can always sense when a hand is worth holding
You, you, you have gotten cold
I thought I’d sample you and hold
Until the memory stored got sold
For currents with a useful mold
Us together was a long frail hollow strangled blunt spasm
‘Fine whatever’ is what he will say to she, to they, to them
You, you, you have gotten cold
I thought I would sample you and hold
Until the memory stored got sold
For currents with a useful mold
I, I, I don’t even have a shred
Of a sore throat or a throbbing head
But I am taking the day off
From work and play just to sit and scoff
And here might be a good place to stop
My head will not shut the .... up!
My heart beats boldly and it’s hot
Inside my chest I’m bursting wide
Rib cage expanding into the knife!
I won’t be the holder for the start of your spark
My heart is bark - stiff and stark - cinched up frock of hawk
I won’t wait for you, I won’t stay stooped
I won’t wait for you, I won’t stay stooped