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Patterns Of Light

from Demon by Tom Slatter

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Patterns of Light is about feeling completely off-kilter. It's about being dizzy, about food tasting slightly off, about light dancing on the wall of a cave, about being worried that nothing is as it seems.

At the risk of sounding horribly pretentious (pretentious? Moi?) it's sort of inspired by Plato's allegory of the cave. Imagine prisoners who spent their entire like chained up in a cave looking at shadows play on the wall. To them the patterns of light on the wall are reality, but in fact they are just shadows. An allegory for the inadequacy of our senses to truly show us the world.

So this song is about the creeping feeling that what you see is not real at all.

Musically it has an attempt to mash up two keys at one in the verses, and my sister Rebecca's marvellous bassoon playing too.

It also marks the middle section of the album where things get a little odd.

lyrics

Spin till you've lost your head
Spin till the world is dead then in head in new directions
Sour overlaid with sweet
Soft, nothing good to eat forced between your teeth
There dancing on the wall
There in the deep of night
These patterns of light
Have come to help save you
These patterns of light play on the wall

Scream out a melody
Screams echo silently
And head in all directions
There dancing on the wall
There in the deep of night
These patterns of light
Have come to help save you
These patterns of light play on the wall

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from Demon, released July 26, 2019

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Tom Slatter London

A latter-day Victorian street-theatre barker with a guitar promising tales of mystery, imagination, ‘orrible murders and bloody great waving tentacles’ is how Tom Slatter has been described. Since 2010 he has been scaring audiences with six albums and numerous EPs of storytelling songs. ... more

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