From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

I'm your host, Cole Kushna. Today we conclude our season-long analysis of Blonde by Frank Goshen.

On our last episode, we dissected Siegfried, a song that revealed Frank's feelings of alienation

and estrangement from society leading to an existential crisis. Sigmfried ultimately finds resolution in Frank's realization of the fragility of life

and are placed in the universe, an understanding that brings with it perspective,

a prioritization of experience, and a sense of internal peace.

This sentiment comes to a thematic peak as Blonde continues into its penultimate track,

the brief but beautiful, Godspeed. I will always love you how I do.

I do. love you.

How I do.

Let go of a prayer for you. God's speed was written by Frank Ocean and Malay and features production by Ocean,

Malay, Omas, Keith, and James Blake. The song contains a handful of religious

overtones, most obviously in its title Godspeed,

but also in its frequent references to the Bible, its feature of gospel singer Kim Burrell,

the use of the church-style organ, and the song's extensive use of the Amen cadence.

We covered this cadence at length in our episode on bad religion, but as a refresher,

the Ahman Cadence is a harmonic resolution that features a move from the subdominant

chord to the tonic or home chord. The nickname Amen

stems from this cadence's frequent use in church music when the choir sings

a man at the end of the piece.

In Godspeed, the chords that make up the a man cadence are the subdominant G flat major

which then moves to the tonic or home chord D flat major.

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