Genesis
Exist Elsewhere 413 closer: built piece by piece, half a soul seeking its match: Genesis, we were meant for this; I've been waiting for you.
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Track four and closer on 413 (August 2, 2013), after Tokyo, Can’t Fall, and Unwhole.
Straight 2013 soulmate pop; the song mostly means what it says. We were built from the ground up piece by piece; half a soul we must find / a similar mind; there is no explanation / we found our destination. That half a soul image is older than it lets on: it’s Aristophanes’ myth in Plato’s Symposium, where people were once whole, got split in two, and spend their lives looking for the other half. Where the middle of the EP fractures into refusal and obsession, Genesis closes on the simplest version of love this band would record, earnest Thornton pop before FEiN’s satirical mask.
On 413: Tokyo (escape + Kokoro) → Can’t Fall (refusal) → Unwhole (obsession) → Genesis (destined repair).
See: 413 EP · Exist Elsewhere on /music/ · Catalog
Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (Exist Elsewhere). Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato.
Lyrics
Arrived from the same connections Pulling us in the same directions Assembled with the same intentions We were built from the ground up piece by piece When we were created We were Meant to be together It's no mystery to me Why can't you see That I've been waiting for you Oh Genesis We were meant for this Oh Genesis We were meant for this Drawn out in the same old blueprint Half a soul we were only given Half a soul we must find A similar mind Don't you know that When we were created We were Meant to be together It's no mystery to me Why can't you see That I've been waiting for you Oh Genesis We were meant for this Oh Genesis We were meant for this There is no explanation We found our destination There is no explanation We found our destination As one we've been called When we were created We were Meant to be together It's no mystery to me Why can't you see That I've been waiting for you Oh Genesis We were meant for this Oh Genesis We were meant for this Woah