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To be Alive Under the Sky

from to be alive under the sky. by motum.

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The title track, in its name itself, sums up the general themes of the album - Existence and Nature, echoing the importance of being connected with nature in the modern world, and trying to hold onto it in the face of climate adversity.

In the verses of the song, the protagonist sits on the grass beneath a tree, looking up at the sky, lost in thought. The increase in tempo mimics the increasing pace of life from the past until the present day (where the natural world seems to have become 'the world that we used to know') before returning to the reverie. In the final verse, the protagonist speaks from a dystopian future, where nature has been reduced to a memory.

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Under the sky, under the trees,
feeling the whisper of a summer breeze.
It doesn’t matter where I’m living,
just give me a space where I can breathe it in.

…Where the river runs, and the grasses grow:
this is the world that we used to know,
where nothing is wasted, everything flows,
but when the “wise” men spoke of gold and treasure, we watched it fade to grey

On this bed of grass, where I lay,
watching the clouds as they pass away.
What if the sun will never rise again?
How does it feel to be alive, my friend?

Mother Nature, or Motherland
Tell me sister, where do you stand?
To build our empires, and watch them fall,
always dying to be so far above it all.

I was a witness to the lake, when she was born
I saw these mountain flowers wake for a thousand years
but then the hunters came, tore out my hair, and dug my bones away
and how I wish to be alive… under the sky again.

I remember the sky. I remember the trees.
I remember the whisper of a summer breeze.
I remember the world where we were living
I remember the time when I could breathe it in.

…Where the river runs, and the grasses grow:
this is the world that we used to know,
where nothing is wasted, everything flows,
but when the “wise” men spoke of gold and treasure, we watched it fade to grey

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from to be alive under the sky., released October 14, 2021

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