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The Great Confusion

by Gato de Fogo

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Siren Song 05:06
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Hi dad, this is Jessamine I just wanted to tell you that I passed and I got a 98, so that's good! The only thing I did wrong is that after I was backing on a corner and he told me to re-enter traffic I, like, put on my blinker and started to go but I hadn't put it back into forward drive that was the only thing So yeah, bye!
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You don't feel any different Yet everything has changed You're a ghost in your own city You're trapped in your own maze It's the changing of the seasons It's the impression that you make It's the things that go unnoticed In the pace and passing of the days It's the cold of winter mornings It's the sunlight on your face It's the dreams that keep on coming As you try to stay awake It's the traffic on your journey It's the mindgames that you play It's the thoughts that keep you going As your reflection fades away It's the changing of the seasons It's the impression that you make It's the things that go unnoticed In the pace and passing of the days
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Corazón es no ver solo comer dejar la lluvia caer soltar el estrés pájaros cantan ambulancias pasan emociones arrasan estando lejos de casa planeo recordarlo todo durante el tiempo que me quede antes de fosilizarme en el lodo dejando que el final vuele Contempla que la indiferencia tienta
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Are we alone In this dark place? Love or chance Endless space Are we stars? That’s what some say Ghosts of light Burned away One small spark In the darkest night Expanding void By years of light One small voice In a silent black Scream and shout But it won’t talk back Are we alone? I can agree Words echo back Is it just me?
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Noble Kind 04:14
You're of a noble kind Sail into the Light
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I think people will always go on using the narrative form because it’s the most extraordinary form You can do anything you like with it There are no rules, except to do it well And I think people will continuingly adapt the narrative form to the problems which confront them at the given moment of history I was reading just the other day As I was traveling through Sicily Reading Trollope’s ‘Framley Parsonage’ And thinking how wonderful it was for novelists in those happy days To have a completely rigid framework Everybody knew exactly where they stood And it was possible to make your comments from an accepted ground That seems to have quite gone today The menaces to individual liberty Which seem to me to be in existence in the world today I think there are very great threats Which, although they may not be acute, particularly in the democratic countries Are potentially very grave indeed Some of them were foreseen And I think some of them, I didn’t have sufficient imagination to foresee But I think there is a whole armory At the disposal of potential dictators at the moment Which is very alarming In drugs and in surgery and in various types of mental manipulation There’s a great deal which can be done And which I’m afraid, unless we’re extremely vigilant, may be done I projected these things 500 or 600 years into the future And it is rather alarming to find that only 27 years later Quite a number of these forecasts have already come true And come true with a vengeance There is a great confusion, so to speak, In who we are and what we are Which requires quite a different way of treatment from what it did in the past For example, I happen to like very much the desert Which is something which grows upon one As one gets to know it well The desert of course has this extraordinary quality of silence Which is quite unlike anything that I know about And of course this immense clarity and the expanse of the sky Is something very extraordinary

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There is a great confusion, so to speak,
in who we are and what we are.

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released April 21, 2023

All music by Gato de Fogo, except:
'Are We Alone?': originally by Boris Smile
Synth on 'Siren Song' by Wouter De Ghesquière
Samples on 'Siren Song', 'The Only Thing I Did Wrong', 'La Indiferencia Tienta' and 'The Great Confusion' from freesound.org:
- Fiji Beach (Stereo) by c97059890
- 20100319JessamineDrivingTestResult by daveincamas
- colombian_boy_poetry by jesusonoro
- Snippets by MelodyMaze

Artwork by Alex Bekaert & Gato de Fogo

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Gato de Fogo Ghent, Belgium

Pretty guitar melodies, soothing synths and lo-fi beats. Gato de Fogo is the solo project of Filipe Van Huylenbroeck (If Anything Happens To The Cat). An attempt to create beauty in our ambivalent society.

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