Culling
FEiN co-write: settled in sediment, not getting over you: maybe money or another letter, shatter me now, culling is overdue, forever asleep with you.
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ISRC QZ2QB1900005 (soundexchange)
FEiN single (June 20, 2019), co-written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward. Mixed by Cary Singer, mastered by Riley Knapp, the same engineering chain as 800,000. Not on Little Homes (2016); later-era FEiN, same duo.
Grief that won’t drain. The opening sits underwater (settled in the sediment), then the chorus runs through bargains that never land: money, a letter, learning to love the wound. None of it moves the fact underneath, I’m not getting over you.
The title does the work. A culling is selective death, what gets removed when you can’t let go, and forever asleep with you turns romance into burial. The last chorus can’t even finish its sentence, trailing off on I’m not getting over. No suburb satire here, just a locked room and a stack of refrains. Pairs with 800,000 (apocalyptic exit) and Behave (control dynamics).
Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (FEiN). Mixed by Cary Singer. Mastered by Riley Knapp.
Lyrics
Settled in the sediment Another bloom, the light I consume Cultivating company And where are you, the light that I knew Maybe some money will make it better Maybe I'll learn to love the wound Maybe I'll feel this way forever I'm not getting over you Maybe I'll write you another letter Tell you I haven't left my room Maybe I'll feel this way forever I'm not getting over you Acclimating desperately Inviting dust to live in the rust Crystalline, inanimate Shatter now or swallow me too Maybe some money will make it better Maybe I'll learn to love the wound Maybe I'll feel this way forever I'm not getting over you Maybe I'll write you another letter Tell you I haven't left my room Maybe I'll feel this way forever I'm not getting over you Shatter me now Culling is overdue Swallow me now Forever asleep with you Shatter me now Culling is overdue Swallow me now Forever asleep with you Shatter me now Culling is overdue Swallow me now Forever asleep with you Shatter me now Culling is overdue Swallow me now Forever asleep with you Maybe some money will make it better Maybe I'll learn to love the wound Maybe I'll feel this way forever I'm not getting over you Maybe I'll write you another letter Tell you I haven't left my room Maybe I'll feel this way forever I'm not getting over you I'm not getting over I'm not getting over