Infant
Plays
Lyrics
Dreaming Was I dreaming? A teething infant bleating Deaf to every thought you wouldn't share Sleeping I was sleeping Resting where you indicated safety could be counted on And all at once, I lost you Forever young, forever young Though I read all about you I read it wrong I know, I know, I know I read you wrong I know, I know, I know Kneeling You were kneeling Patiently, you waited for the moment to remove the head Changing Were you changing? Was I wrong in thinking you were more than unpredictable? And all at once, I lost you Forever young, forever young Though I read all about you I read it wrong I know, I know, I know I read you wrong I know, I know, I know And all at once, I lost you Forever young, forever young Though I read all about you I read it wrong I know, I know, I know I read you wrong I know, I know, I know And all at once, I lost you Forever young, forever young Though I read all about you I read it wrong Though I read all And all at once, I lost you Forever young, forever young I read it wrong
FEiN co-write: misread someone you studied: teething infant bleating, safety that wasn't safe, kneeling for the moment to remove the head, forever young when you lost them all at once.
ISRC QZ2QB1900001 (soundexchange)
FEiN single (May 2, 2019), co-written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward. On October 5, 2026, Spotify showed 230,473 plays, 3:17. The count moves. Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato (same Woodcliff chain as Behave). Not on Little Homes (2016); 2019 single cluster with 800,000 (May 16), Culling (June 20), and Behave.
Trust under false sleep: the title as helpless noise (a teething infant bleating), intimacy blocked by what won’t be spoken, the narrator resting where you indicated safety could be counted on. The promise was theirs to keep. The chorus turns it to sudden loss, an Alphaville echo as elegy: forever young, forever young / though I read all about you / I read it wrong. Studied them like text, still failed the comprehension test.
The second verse goes theatrical, FEiN drama at full register, patiently, you waited for the moment to remove the head, execution imagery as relationship climax. By the outro the chorus stacks until language breaks, no new information, only repetition as a grief loop. Less satirical than Little Homes, less static than Culling: misrecognition as the wound. Pairs with Behave (control scripts you can’t follow) and 800,000 (apocalyptic exit).
Spotify editorial: a Spotify for Artists card says Infant was added to New Music Friday on May 2, 2019, the release day. That card does not name followers. Two later notifications name size, not one add counted twice: May 3, 2019, 2:20 p.m. (175,926 followers) and May 4, 2019, 8:16 a.m. (3,187,831 followers). Same title on the card, different playlists. The smaller one’s market isn’t named. The FEiN Facebook post is the May 3 thanks. See Catalog: official playlists and platform circulation.
Selected coverage
Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (FEiN). Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato.