Sinking through stone
Reasons for being come so slowly
Placing to show
Planned obsolescence embryos
Roaming free with depravity
Holding hands with a hollow man
Some kind of new manipulation
Charm and betray
Ruin and replay
Seduce and deceive
Destroy and repeat
Trading lives for existences
A screen door to a warmer war
It always ends with a flare inside a sphere
And everything's clear
Please don't remember me
Like I'll always remember you
Manipulation was written by Preoccupations & Scott Munro & Daniel Christiansen & Mike Wallace & Matt Flegel.
Manipulation was produced by Scott Munro & Matt Flegel & Justin Meldal-Johnsen.
Preoccupations released Manipulation on Fri Mar 23 2018.
In an interview with Consequence of Sound, bassist/vocalist Matt Flegel and guitarist/synths player Scott “Monty” Munro had the following to say about the development of the song:
MF: We had the concept of doing these uncomfortable swells. It ended up relating to the lyrics in that one pretty well...