Song For August

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Song For August

The trick PCBender pulls off here is structural: the chorus doesn’t just repeat, it evolves, so by the time the final version lands with ‘I seem to find the tempo’ flipping the lyric on its axis, the resolution feels earned rather than announced. At 89 BPM in A minor, the track moves with a measured urgency, and that dynamic break around the 53-second mark, where the arrangement opens wide and the rhythm section locks in hard, is the moment the song stops being good and starts being convincing. ‘The desert hums forgiveness / for what it understands’ is the kind of line that justifies the whole four minutes. A highlight.

Lyrics

It feels like you can’t listen Don’t have a thing to say A song that needs rehearsing But all you do is play

You seem to lose the tempo I’ve seen that face before The steps you cannot follow A taste of Mirador A taste of Mirador

I drift above the moment Pretending I can see The pattern and the meaning But none of it is me

I seem to lose the tempo I’ve seen that face before The steps I cannot follow A glimpse of Mirador A glimpse of Mirador

Come down from your high window There’s thunder in the sand The desert hums forgiveness For what it understands

I seem to lose the tempo I’ve seen that face before The steps I cannot follow A bit of Mirador A bit of Mirador

Can you hear me, August Are you too high to feel You hide yourself in silence And call the darkness real

I seem to find the tempo I’ve seen that face before The steps I now can follow The view from Mirador The view from Mirador

Credits

Songwriter: Michael Anthony Rose