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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
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

draft: false

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**FEiN** single (**2022**), co-written by **Luke Francis Walton** and **Brandon Michael Woodward**. **[Brian Robert Jones](/with/brian-robert-jones/)**, bass (Walton confirms — same album-bass player as [*Little Homes*](/albums/little-homes-fein/)). Mixed by **Cary Singer**, mastered by **Riley Knapp**, the same engineering chain as [*Culling*](/songs/culling/), [*800,000*](/songs/800-000/), and [*Bodies*](/songs/bodies/) (Discogs). [360° live session at KCRW](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQgVgA60rjs) with **Ryan McDiarmid** (drums) and **Geo Botelho** (bass) — performance video, not a produced MV ([FEiN's only MV is *#Grownupz*](/songs/grownupz/)). Not on [*Little Homes*](/albums/little-homes-fein/) (2016); later-era FEiN, same duo as [*Delicate*](/songs/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*](/songs/infant/) (misreading someone) and [*Behave*](/songs/behave/) (control dynamics).

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