Nation of Language - Deliver Me From Wondering Why

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🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Nation of Language - "Deliver Me From Wondering Why," a 2021 self-released single.

Brooklyn synth-pop duo Nation Of Language sent us swooning with last year's debut full-length, titled Introduction, Presence. Earlier this month, they returned with the new single "Deliver Me From Wondering Why," another new wave-inspired track that sounds straight from a '80s film soundtrack. The band layer video game-esque sounds against the programmed beats, adding soaring out-of-this-world effects.

In a press statement, frontman/songwriter Ian Devaney shared more about the song:

“Deliver Me From Wondering Why” is a bit of an exploration, rooted in a desire for something repetitious and a bit spacey — something that would make you really want to zone out or go for a long drive on the highway. (Ideally not at the same time.) We worked on it with Nick Millhiser (Holy Ghost!) and it was just a really fun exercise in letting the track carry us wherever it was going to go. The backbone of the steady synth arpeggios and rhythms just leads endlessly forward and lets the mind wander around it.

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0:00.0	I'm saying
0:05.0	a barrier.
0:07.0	I'm saying
0:08.0	I'm slated
0:12.0	I'm slated deliver me fruit. I was saying
0:16.0	living from wondering why when I was up in your eye
0:20.0	I found another way home tonight but I'm up in your way. Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, uh, When When do you set up shop around here, what did you tend to fight?
1:05.0	Nothing like that you want around here.
1:11.0	When I'm... around here.
1:13.0	When I'm up in your eye,
1:18.0	I found another way up tonight
1:21.0	when I'm up in your eye. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
1:35.0	oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I can walk by myself, I can walk away.
1:47.0	I'm waiting by myself, I can't walk away. Always in the air,
1:55.0	the air in the fading, always in the air in the fading
1:58.0	by. I'm very soon seeing.
2:15.0	Never seated.
2:18.0	deliver me from wondering why
2:21.0	when I love in your eye.
2:25.0	I'm sounding love I'm up tonight
2:28.0	and I that I love in your eye. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
2:45.0	oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you, No baby, yeah. I'm sad.
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