Casualty

from 2.1: Game Face by Composit

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The album starts at the "Game Over" stage, having taken your best shot at love and losing, but any gamer knows you just have to hit "Continue."

Inspired by The Nightingale & The Rose, a short story by Oscar Wilde.

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You sat alone in your beautiful garden
Crying out into the night
Of the stone forming deep in your heart
And how the world had passed you by
I sang of love
From high above
And tried to ease your pain
I sang so long
My sweetest song
My efforts were in vain

Until one night when your beautiful eyes
Filled up with tears and you disclosed
That your happiness relied
On your want for the reddest rose
Night after night
I took to flight
I made your need my own
I scoured the trees
The seven seas
I gave my flesh and bone

I tried to make a red rose for your garden
Built it out of music and moonlight
Couldn't bear to watch your warm heart harden So I let you drain the blood from mine
Thought I'd be the spark to ignite your fire
To find out it would never be enough
Thought that I could be your heart's desire
But I became a casualty
A casualty of love

A casualty of love

A casualty of love

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from 2.1: Game Face, released March 10, 2023
Lyrics / Vocals: Dean Boudreau
Programming / Guitars / Production: Mark Pineo

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Composit Nova Scotia

We are Composit; Dean & Mark, a couple of 80s/90s kids who grew up to make sounds only partially inspired by that era. We make emotional, electronic pop/rock. We incorporate retro gaming elements, guitar solos, science fiction metaphors or whatever other dorky stuff comes to us. We aim for fresh but nostalgic. ... more

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