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title: "Genesis"

meaning: "Exist Elsewhere 413 closer: built piece by piece, half a soul seeking its match: Genesis, we were meant for this; I've been waiting for you."

year: 2013
release: "413"
releaseType: "EP"

artist: "Exist Elsewhere"
artistId: "#existelsewhere"

coWriters: ["Brandon Michael Woodward"]
credits: "Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (Exist Elsewhere). Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/47ORPqoD0omGkbQR2koyW8"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/413-ep/681835750"

themes: ["Exist Elsewhere", "413", "destiny", "soulmates", "2013"]

isrc: USHM81320568
isrcSource: spotify
lyrics: |
  Arrived from the same connections
  Pulling us in the same directions
  Assembled with the same intentions
  We were built from the ground up piece by piece

  When we were created
  We were 
  Meant to be together 
  It's no mystery to me
  Why can't you see
  That I've been waiting for you

  Oh
  Genesis
  We were meant for this
  Oh
  Genesis
  We were meant for this

  Drawn out in the same old blueprint
  Half a soul we were only given
  Half a soul we must find
  A similar mind
  Don't you know that

  When we were created
  We were 
  Meant to be together 
  It's no mystery to me
  Why can't you see
  That I've been waiting for you

  Oh
  Genesis
  We were meant for this
  Oh
  Genesis
  We were meant for this

  There is no explanation
  We found our destination
  There is no explanation
  We found our destination
  As one we've been called

  When we were created
  We were 
  Meant to be together 
  It's no mystery to me
  Why can't you see
  That I've been waiting for you

  Oh
  Genesis
  We were meant for this
  Oh
  Genesis
  We were meant for this

  Woah

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Track four and closer on [*413*](/albums/413/) (**August 2, 2013**), after [*Tokyo*](/songs/tokyo/), [*Can't Fall*](/songs/cant-fall/), and [*Unwhole*](/songs/unwhole/).

Straight 2013 soulmate pop; the song mostly means what it says. *We were built from the ground up piece by piece*; *half a soul we must find / a similar mind*; *there is no explanation / we found our destination*. That *half a soul* image is older than it lets on: it's [Aristophanes' myth in Plato's *Symposium*](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1600/1600-h/1600-h.htm), where people were once whole, got split in two, and spend their lives looking for the other half. Where the middle of the EP fractures into refusal and obsession, *Genesis* closes on the simplest version of love this band would record, earnest Thornton pop before FEiN's satirical mask.

On *413*: [*Tokyo*](/songs/tokyo/) (escape + Kokoro) → [*Can't Fall*](/songs/cant-fall/) (refusal) → [*Unwhole*](/songs/unwhole/) (obsession) → *Genesis* (destined repair).

See: [413 EP](/albums/413/) · [Exist Elsewhere on /music/](/music/#existelsewhere) · [Catalog](/catalog/)

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