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Y K M
Metadata
- title
- Y K M
- meaning
- FEiN co-write from a dark place: you'll never see me again: social alien, abusive kindness, locked in orbit; you know me; come to the binding.
- year
- 2019
- release
- Y K M
- 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/y-k-m/1459487776?i=1459487777
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/artist/4LJfnGBABdrlnlVpiM2qvW
- themes
- FEiN
- disappearance
- isolation
- control
- theatrical pop
- isrc
- QZ2QB1900004
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
You'll never see me again I promise I'll disappear in a flash As if I'll ever be done You'll never see me again I want this My love, my love You know me Maybe something's wrong Maybe it's recognition Nobody look to long for nature Social alien Everything as it should not be Maybe I took to long Out of orbit You'll never see me again I promise I'll disappear in a flash As if I'll ever be done You'll never see me again I want this My love, my love You know me I could speak like you Build me a better body Welcome me with abusive kindness Is this what you feel Knowing your place with certainty Maybe I'm far from view Locked in orbit You'll never see me again I promise I'll disappear in a flash As if I'll ever be done You'll never see me again I want this My love, my love You know me Come to me Are you lonely, my beloved child? Come with me to the binding I will keep you Come to me Are you lonely?
Content
FEiN single (June 13, 2019), co-written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward. Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato. Not on Little Homes (2016); 2019 single cluster with Infant (May), 800,000 (May), Culling (June), and Behave. Title Y K M reads as you know me: last line of the repeating chorus.
Luke has said this one is really tough for him to listen to, that it came from a dark place. Listen when you're ready.
Disappearance as desire, the contradiction held rather than resolved: you'll never see me again / I promise set against I want this / my love, my love / you know me. The verses read as wrongness mistaken for clarity, a social alien drifting out of orbit, mimicry and makeover offered in exchange for belonging, the dynamic named plain as abusive kindness.
The outro shifts voice into invitation as capture: come with me to the binding / I will keep you, cult comfort or parent-god, ending on the loneliness question rather than any answer. Heavier than Lucky You (sarcastic rescue) or Little Homes satire, FEiN theatrical pop at self-destruction and control. Pairs with Behave (scripted loyalty) and Infant (misreading, loss).