These Fragile Things

Space Captain “Two”

There’s a lightness and elegance to this song that’s at odds with its lyrical sentiment, which from the start is telling you to “keep your crippling fear, let nobody come near you.” This could be cheap irony, but it comes out sounding rather sincere, making it more like a lullaby for the severely anxious than a bleak joke. The trajectory of the song suggests something a lot deeper, too – it starts out in this weightless, jazzy zone before drifting into cosmic psychedelia, and climaxes with this spiky riff that brings out all the nervous energy and bad vibes that up to that point in the track had only been mentioned in the lyrics.

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