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Liminal
Metadata
- title
- Liminal
- meaning
- FEiN co-write: liminal spaces, letter to the author, wanna trade places: bummer ever after, fear not enough, we'll disappear we're not enough.
- year
- 2022
- release
- Liminal
- releaseType
- single
- artist
- FEiN
- artistId
- #fein
- coWriters
- Brandon Michael Woodward
- credits
- Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (FEiN). Mixed by Cary Singer. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Brian Robert Jones, bass (Luke Walton confirms).
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/artist/4LJfnGBABdrlnlVpiM2qvW
- youtube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQgVgA60rjs
- press
- outlet
- KCRW: Liminal (360° live session)
- url
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQgVgA60rjs
- themes
- FEiN
- liminal spaces
- isolation
- fear
- relationships
- isrc
- QZ2QB2200001
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
I thought by now We'd take the easy way out But nothing changes If I'm alone, I'll wait alone Liminal Spaces Spending all my time in liminal spaces Letter to the author Wanna trade places Spending all your time in liminal spaces Bummer ever after I miss you here Whatchu want, head stuck in a narrow maw And nothing changes Don't leave me here Don't leave me here Liminal Spaces Spending all my time in liminal spaces Letter to the author Wanna trade places Spending all your time in liminal spaces Bummer ever after Liminal Spaces Spending all my time in liminal spaces Letter to the author Wanna trade places Spending all your time in liminal spaces Bummer ever after Now that we find that fear is not enough No fair if fear is not enough No way if fear is not enough In a minute we'll disappear, we're not enough We'll disappear, we're not enough I'm out of here, we're not enough Ooh, nothing changes Liminal Spaces Spending all my time in liminal spaces Letter to the author Wanna trade places Spending all your time in liminal spaces Bummer ever after Liminal Spaces Spending all my time in liminal spaces Letter to the author Wanna trade places Spending all your time in liminal spaces Bummer ever after
Content
FEiN single (2022), co-written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward. Brian Robert Jones, bass (Walton confirms — same album-bass player as Little Homes). Mixed by Cary Singer, mastered by Riley Knapp, the same engineering chain as Culling, 800,000, and Bodies (Discogs). 360° live session at KCRW with Ryan McDiarmid (drums) and Geo Botelho (bass) — performance video, not a produced MV (FEiN's only MV is #Grownupz). Not on Little Homes (2016); later-era FEiN, same duo as Delicate (Woodcliff / Rosato).
The internet meme made sincere. The backrooms-and-hallways aesthetic becomes relationship geography, the in-between as a permanent address. It opens on a stalled exit (I thought by now we'd take the easy way out / but nothing changes) and keeps returning there: presence that still feels like absence, head stuck in a narrow maw.
The chorus pun does a lot of quiet work. Letter to the author / wanna trade places reads as fan-fiction escape, writing yourself into someone else's story, and bummer ever after flips the fairy-tale ending. The bridge is where fear stops working as glue (now that we find that fear is not enough) and the only move left is to vanish. Pairs with Infant (misreading someone) and Behave (control dynamics).