Name: Lonely Worlds
Duration: P00H03M02S
Description: When someone drowns, the process of asphyxia and resulting hypoxia is at first painful but turns to euphoria in the last seconds before loss of consciousness, and finally death. This song is a glimpse into what those elongated last seconds might feel like to a drowning victim.

Lonely Worlds

from Demons by Nepenthe

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When someone drowns, the process of asphyxia and resulting hypoxia is at first painful but turns to euphoria in the last seconds before loss of consciousness, and finally death. This song is a glimpse into what those elongated last seconds might feel like to a drowning victim.

lyrics

Lonely worlds
I'm floating in lonely worlds
And yet I find an aperture
Of light above me

Effervescence
I thought that I had learned my lessons
My breath always escapes me
Under the sea
Drowning

Euphoria
Am I this scenes Ophelia?
It wraps my brain in tingling warmth
And I'm transformed

I never dreamed
That drowning could be
Such a day dream
Admidst the sea bream

The darkness it grows
The water's enclosed me
That's it, I suppose
My heart beats so slow

credits

from Demons, track released November 8, 2019
Music, lyrics, and lead vocals by Krist Schubilske (he/him)
Guitar, vocals, and piano by Jackson Shepard (he/him)
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Drew Polovick (he/him)
Additional instruments by Drew Polovick

Cover art:
Vincy Chan (they/ them)
Instagram: @chanwanvincyart/ @chanwanvincy

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Nepenthe combines ambient folk and jazz to tell ethereal stories inspired by fairy tales, dreams, folk stories, and poems.

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