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Alterable Value, Parts A-E
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Alterable Value, Parts A-E was released on December 17, 2024 by Tendershoot as a part of the album New Active Object
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Release DateDecember 17, 2024
LabelTendershoot
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

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Credits

COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Jay Tholen
Jay Tholen
Songwriter

Lyrics

Release day
I'm shaking
It's incomplete
Two thousand
Now playing
It's bittersweet
I'm too close
Heart tangled
It shouldn't be
Gentle please
I start
Again
I can't move
Like I did
Whose
Hand now
Guides
Me?
Still some tread onward, deeper in
Passing tiles grid-aligned
Bought with time
Too much time
And soon they'll find
That all of this is nothing new
Abstractions realigned
But no residue
No holy glue
Just what am I
Really offering?
And why should anyone
Spend their fleeting time
In my flimsy world?
What good is this to them?
It has allure
If you're far away
A roaring waterfall
But no rocks to break
No secret cave
I hear a vile trembling groan
Through magma, steel, and bone
A darkness that signals an end
I've died in here before
New tileset but same old contours
But I don't think I got this far in
This doorway is unfamiliar
I try stepping through but I can't
Runtime Error
E D R T dot E X E
And then everything stopped one last time
Ruin at hand
Pillars to sand
Fractal cracked land
Wallpaper peeks behind
The
Frame
Little was gained
Nothing was saved
No I.N.I
I ate your time
Funnelled your eyes
Captured in brine
Look at what's mine!
Crashing down it went
A leftover plate
Reheated taste
Not worth the wait
Echoes of god
Pointing to christ
Is that enough?
I'm not so sure
Coming down from this
Pushing my junk
Is this holy love?
This should be costing me
My
Life
Feel cracking sulfate fingers
Chip ancient food now fossilized
It may not be your job
It is the work of loving god and loving others
Nurture that thoughtful impulse
When met with angry bile boiling
A kindness undeserved
Upending violent earthly powers
This is what it means to conquer darkness as an instrument of Christ Himself
It all seems so mundane
This power moving earth and heaven
Someday you'll find
Something's changed in you
Your craft is important, true
But there's something new
Consuming you
It's love and joy and peace and
Patience kindness and goodness
Gentleness and faithfulness and
Self-control, the spirit working
Love and joy and peace and
Patience kindness and goodness
Gentleness and faithfulness and
Self-control, this is the spirit working
Through worlds you're fabricating
Or gentle words
Earth-rending love can cascade out
Add or subtract
My values, change my name
Then re-anchor my hot spot just right
Bounce me around
Or draw a path for me
Paint all over and rotate my sprite
Make me opaque
Perhaps EX-OR AND OR
Totally disappear in your light
I want to be how you imagine me
Written by: Jay Alan Tholen
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