What Forms Us informs Us

from Planet Paradise by Ahmed El-Motassem

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

What forms us informs us we’re out of focus,
What forms us informs us we’re off balance,
Adapting, changing, carbon based form;
Fall out of Eden, behold, frontal lobe!

What forms us informs us nothing’s what it seems,
Dressed in daylight, talking like a dream,
Perhaps everything is just as it seems,
Whatever it means that keeps bringing us here!

What forms us informs us in symbols, naturally;
Collective subconscious live stream,
Charging soul images with electric emotion,
The Godhead breathes stills into motion!

What haunts us informs us you’ve been split,
Once your madness lost its wit,
What looked like you, felt like someone else,
Not quite alive nor exactly dead;
Living as it were in a silent movie,
Lips always moving soundlessly;
How can it feel so unreal, just walking
In a dream from which you can’t awaken?!

What forms us informs us, oh walkabout!
Face of wilderness, get lost to be found!
What forms us transforms us, oh holy sound!
How strange it is for us to be here now,
Going round n round!

credits

from Planet Paradise, released March 21, 2019
Words: A. El-Motassem
Music: A. El-Motassem/ E. Gallagher
Evan Gallagher: Keyboard/ bass
Ahmed El-Motassem: Vocals, percussion, midi guitar

license

about

Ahmed El-Motassem

SoundCloud

contact / help

Contact Ahmed El-Motassem

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Ahmed El-Motassem, you may also like:

The Black Pits EP
by Jom Comyn

Comyn's distinctive, smoky baritone vocal shines on this limited cassette release of brooding indie folk. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 12, 2015
go to album
Inside Voices
by Tig

Four indie-pop reflections on growth and loss from the Australian singer-songwriter, sustained by robust pianos and fervent vocals. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 29, 2024
go to album
I Wish You Could See Yourself Right Now
by Gentle Organisms

The aptly named Gentle Organisms specialize in quietly radiant songs centered on tender melodies. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 2, 2023
go to album
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO
by Juliana Hatfield

It’s a match made in heaven: Juliana Hatfield tackles the classic ELO catalog on a road that leads to power pop bliss. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 18, 2023
go to album
Strange Adrenaline (LP | 2023)
by Nat Vazer

Woozy and melodic alternative rock from Melbourne-artist Nat Vazer sounds like a grungier Alvvays. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 26, 2023
go to album
Grapevine
by Career Woman

Bright, sparkling indie pop with sugary hooks at the center and jagged guitar on all sides. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 7, 2023
go to album
Humor
by tofusmell

1990s-era indie-folk sounds back songs about love and identity on this project from the Florida-based artist. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 30, 2023
go to album