Tunng’s Sam Genders wrote a bit about the track:
It’s inspired by my relationship to life, death, fear and acceptance and how my relationship to those four things has shifted in recent years, and especially since we began this project. On one hand I’m hugely drawn to rational thought and scientific...
Swim hard through the ten thousand things
The world is an assassin with a secret grin
Keep on fighting through the pain she brings
Life is the strangest light
Keep seeking something some last step
You're a circle in a quandary in a dance with breath
You're so scared to be what you're not yet
Hoping love is its own reward
Seeking myself
I'm not there
I'm a whisper in a spectre in a gasp of air
I'm scared to death
I'm scared to death
Play dice with a great host of bones
Life is like a trickster selling pay day loans
You order bread end up sucking on stones
Maybe death has it's own accord
Some grand agreement with the stars and the moon
The adder in the meadow and of course with you
You're so scared to face the great unknown
The darkness you really need
Seeking something
That makes some sense
You're a whisper in a spectre in a drawn out breath
You're scared to death
You're scared to death
You're scared to death
You're scared to death
Always we'll be looking for you in the night sky
All twisted up watching for you in the night sky
All madness is mirrored here upon the night sky
Deep black water running up on to the night
Try hard to put the creatures down
But the more you struggle the more they gather round
Strange white machines strange rattling sounds
A gathering of pointless words
Seems all that matters is the love we breed
The myriad connections in the swollen seas
Of our confusion
All trying to get free
Love is it's own reward
Seeking yourself you're not there
You're a whisper in a spectre in a gasp of air
Seeking rational and holy too
I'm a grinner I'm a loser I'm a washed up fool
Seeking downwards and falling up
We're a random storm of atoms trying to be both
Seeking something that makes some sense
You're a whisper in a spectre in a drawn out breath
We're scared to death
We're scared to death
You're scared to death
You're scared to death
I'm scared to death
I'm scared to death
I'm scared to death
I'm scared to death
I'm scared to death
I'm scared to death
I'm scared to death
I'm scared to death
Scared To Death was produced by Mike Lindsay.
Tunng released Scared To Death on Thu Oct 15 2020.