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Infant
Metadata
- title
- Infant
- meaning
- FEiN co-write: misread someone you studied: teething infant bleating, safety that wasn't safe, kneeling for the moment to remove the head, forever young when you lost them all at once.
- year
- 2019
- release
- Infant
- releaseType
- single
- artist
- FEiN
- artistId
- #fein
- coWriters
- Brandon Michael Woodward
- credits
- Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (FEiN). Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato.
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/infant/1459487931?i=1459487932
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/artist/4LJfnGBABdrlnlVpiM2qvW
- press
- outlet
- Spotify for Artists — New Music Friday (FEiN Facebook, May 3, 2019)
- url
- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX4JAvHpjipBk
- themes
- FEiN
- grief
- misreading
- loss
- theatrical pop
- Spotify editorial
- isrc
- QZ2QB1900001
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
Dreaming Was I dreaming? A teething infant bleating Deaf to every thought you wouldn't share Sleeping I was sleeping Resting where you indicated safety could be counted on And all at once, I lost you Forever young, forever young Though I read all about you I read it wrong I know, I know, I know I read you wrong I know, I know, I know Kneeling You were kneeling Patiently, you waited for the moment to remove the head Changing Were you changing? Was I wrong in thinking you were more than unpredictable? And all at once, I lost you Forever young, forever young Though I read all about you I read it wrong I know, I know, I know I read you wrong I know, I know, I know And all at once, I lost you Forever young, forever young Though I read all about you I read it wrong I know, I know, I know I read you wrong I know, I know, I know And all at once, I lost you Forever young, forever young Though I read all about you I read it wrong Though I read all And all at once, I lost you Forever young, forever young I read it wrong
Content
FEiN single (May 2, 2019), co-written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward. Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato (same Woodcliff chain as Behave). Not on Little Homes (2016); 2019 single cluster with 800,000 (May 16), Culling (June 20), and Behave.
Trust under false sleep: the title as helpless noise (a teething infant bleating), intimacy blocked by what won't be spoken, the narrator resting where you indicated safety could be counted on. The promise was theirs to keep. The chorus turns it to sudden loss, an Alphaville echo as elegy: forever young, forever young / though I read all about you / I read it wrong. Studied them like text, still failed the comprehension test.
The second verse goes theatrical, FEiN drama at full register, patiently, you waited for the moment to remove the head, execution imagery as relationship climax. By the outro the chorus stacks until language breaks, no new information, only repetition as a grief loop. Less satirical than Little Homes, less static than Culling: misrecognition as the wound. Pairs with Behave (control scripts you can't follow) and 800,000 (apocalyptic exit).
Spotify editorial: May 3, 2019 FEiN Facebook post (archivist proof: /evidence/fein-infant-new-music-friday-facebook.png) thanked Spotify for including Infant on New Music Friday — Spotify for Artists graphic: “Infant” by FEiN was added to this playlist (release May 2, 2019). See Catalog: official playlists and platform circulation.
