Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Shelly and Rotem- Eternal Loop Of Lies



I've been hearing the name Shelly and Rotem for quite some time now so I was very happy to discover a brand new single of theirs today. In an interview for Walla they say of it: "the song was written from the perspective of a person suffering from a chronic illness, when he is looking back at his childhood, a period in which he shed from himself responsibility and ignored the disease, living a lie whose implications he understood only when he matured. With or without a disease, we all have a tendency to tell ourselves lies that protect us from reality. 'Nothing will happen. I'm not afraid'. The song is about these little lies and the disillusionment of them".
I have a certain tendency to look (maybe too deeply) at songs in a broad social context, as opposed to psychologically, making this song eerily fitting for today.

If twelve shots a day show your courage
Then I've had none
No I don't want to hear definitions
To describe my condition
I'm fine
And I know one day I'll be blind
You've been telling me since I was nine
But in my own eternal loop of lies
Nothing bad happens
Nothing bad happens

And I am not afraid
So naive was I to say
I am not afraid
And I'll never rush again

Not caring and not noticing, nothing is going to change
What have I got to lose anyway
And I know one day I'll be blind
You've been telling me and I didn't mind
Cause in my own eternal loop of lies
Nothing bad happens
Nothing bad happens

And I am not afraid
So naive was I to say
I am not afraid

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