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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
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?

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**FEiN** single (**June 13, 2019**), co-written by **Luke Francis Walton** and **Brandon Michael Woodward**. Mixed and mastered by **[Frank Rosato](/with/frank-rosato/)**. Not on [*Little Homes*](/albums/little-homes-fein/) (2016); 2019 single cluster with [*Infant*](/songs/infant/) (May), [*800,000*](/songs/800-000/) (May), [*Culling*](/songs/culling/) (June), and [*Behave*](/songs/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*](/songs/lucky-you/) (sarcastic rescue) or *Little Homes* satire, FEiN theatrical pop at **self-destruction and control**. Pairs with [*Behave*](/songs/behave/) (scripted loyalty) and [*Infant*](/songs/infant/) (misreading, loss).

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