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Solar Blind
[Verse 1: Male Vocals]
Spilt the coffee on your clean white shirt this morning
You laughed it off, said it was just a thing
But I saw the stain spread like a final warning
A tiny world on which a shadow clings
I chart its course behind my tired eyes
The biggest thing no one has ever seen
I nod and talk and normalize the lies
And hold a smile to keep the surface clean
[Verse 2: Female Vocals]
You bought a new ficus for the living room
Said we needed something that could grow
But there’s a cold spot that defies the afternoon
A hidden gravity, a current down below
I feel the pull of something you won't name
A fractional degree that bends the light
You manage every day to act the same
But you're building barricades against the night
[Chorus: Both, with Male lead]
We call this living? Just killing time?
Holding an orbit around a secret crime?
This love's so bright it burns right through my mind
We’re solar blind, we’re solar blind
[Verse 3: Male Vocals]
They say the odds are like a century away
A number small enough to file and forget
But I'm the one who stands out in the glare all day
Who sees the math and places one last bet
I hold this catastrophic peace treaty with dread
A cease-fire signed in the silence of my head
[Verse 4: Female Vocals]
You check your phone like you're tracking weather
Like you're waiting for a different sky
I reach for you, to anchor us together
And you flinch like I just poked you in the eye
I’m watching you wrestle with a shape I can't make out
A darkness hiding in the brightest part of us
Your quiet is a deafening, coming shout
And all our memories are turning into rust
[Chorus: Both, with Female lead]
We call this living? Just killing time?
Holding an orbit around a secret crime?
This love's so bright it burns right through my mind
We’re solar blind, we’re solar blind
[Bridge: Both, overlapping vocals]
(Male) A hundred years, a hundred days, what’s the difference
(Female) I can feel the coming interference
(Male) Its path is set, I run the code
(Female) A crushing, planetary load
(Male) Can't warn you 'til I know the crash
(Female) Turning our future into ash
[Outro: Both, quiet and resigned]
And when it comes... a shadow on the kitchen tile
Just one degree... been coming all the while
Yeah, when it comes... the glare will finally break
An impact course... for goodness sake...
We're solar blind...
Solar blind...
About The Song
"Solar Blind" translates a startling astronomical discovery into a deeply personal and human metaphor. The song takes its core idea from the recent finding of 2022 AP7, a "planet-killer" asteroid whose orbit is obscured by the Sun's glare, making it difficult to track. In the song, this celestial threat becomes a symbol for a devastating truth or an unrevealed secret within a long-term relationship. The "sun's glare" is the bright, seemingly happy facade of the couple's life together, which ironically hides the very thing that could destroy their world. The duet structure explores the dynamic of this anxiety: one partner is actively managing the secret (like the astronomers charting the asteroid), while the other feels its unspoken gravitational pull, sensing something is deeply wrong without knowing what it is. The song captures the unbearable tension of living with a future, inevitable collision point, blending the raw, narrative honesty of artists like Zach Bryan with a sparse, modern lo-fi arrangement.
Production Notes
Vocals: Two distinct vocal performances are key. The male vocal should be intimate, dry, and close-mic'd (Neumann TLM 102) with almost no reverb, as if he's confessing a secret directly into the listener's ear. The female vocal should have a touch more space (U47 clone through a tube pre-amp), with a subtle, long-tail reverb to represent her feeling of distance and confusion. The harmonies in the chorus should be tight but not perfectly slick, preserving the raw emotion. In the bridge, the overlapping vocals should be panned slightly left and right to create a sense of frantic, internal dialogue.
Instrumentation: The foundation is a single, finger-picked acoustic guitar (Martin D-28) playing a simple, repetitive, almost hypnotic riff. A slow, heartbeat-like kick drum (felt beater, heavily dampened) enters in Verse 2. The mix should be sparse. Introduce a subtle Moog-style synth bass in the choruses to add weight and a sense of dread. A washed-out, reverse cymbal swell should lead into the bridge to build tension.
Mix Automation: Automate a low-pass filter on the entire mix during the verses, opening it up slightly for the choruses to create a feeling of coming up for air. During the outro, slowly fade in a barely-audible radio static sound, as if the connection between the two is finally breaking down. The final acoustic guitar note should ring out and be abruptly cut off.
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