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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
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

draft: false

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**FEiN** single (**May 2, 2019**), co-written by **Luke Francis Walton** and **Brandon Michael Woodward**. Mixed and mastered by **[Frank Rosato](/with/frank-rosato/)** (same Woodcliff chain as [*Behave*](/songs/behave/)). Not on [*Little Homes*](/albums/little-homes-fein/) (2016); 2019 single cluster with [*800,000*](/songs/800-000/) (May 16), [*Culling*](/songs/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*](/songs/behave/) (control scripts you can't follow) and [*800,000*](/songs/800-000/) (apocalyptic exit).

**Spotify editorial:** **May 3, 2019** FEiN Facebook post (archivist proof: [/evidence/fein-infant-new-music-friday-facebook.png](/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](/catalog/#spotify-editorial).

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