You Look Down At Me, by Finn Johansson

You Look Down At Me

by Finn Johansson

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	1.	You Look Down At Me 02:30	lyrics	buy track
	You Look Down At Me Verse 1 & 2 capo 3 G Am I look up and you’re right there above me G Am You look down at me and I’m floating C G Why would it be meant to be D C Why would you be bent to me? G Am Heard your voice in the sound of the piss in the bowl G Am Something’s got me feeling emotional echo C G I asked my heart what I should do D C It won’t stop talking about you Chorus G Because of you I go to sleep singing a song Am But the words are wrong C I’m scared to sing something new Am Bm C I don’t want it to be ‘ cause of you SOLO same as verse G Am G Am C G D C Chorus G Because of you I go to sleep singing a song Am But the words are wrong C I’m scared to sing something new Am Bm C I don’t want it to be ‘ cause of you

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This new track, You Look Down At Me, takes the best parts of lo- and hi-fi indie music, and weaves them together with, like, a beautiful melodic simplicity.
The lyrics are about the deeply un-mundane things we feel, while we’re doing deeply mundane things.
It sounds like Frankie Cosmos meets Bill Callahan meets... some song with a beautiful violin solo ...Van Morrison? meets The Strokes.
If the song makes you feel anything, please drop me a line and let me know!
-F

This track is part of Finn Johansson's 9-5 Season 1 mixtape, launching on November 18th, 2022.
Finn Johansson's 9-5 is a wild crowdfunding operation where I pump out music during live-streamed consecutive 40 hour work weeks.
Subscribe: patreon.com/finnjohansson

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released November 4, 2022

Finn Johansson - most things
DKYT - mixing and mastering
Pascal Roggen - electric / acoustic violin

Lyrics:

Verse 1 & 2 capo 3

G Am
I look up and you’re right there above me
G Am
You look down at me and I’m floating
C G
Why would it be meant to be
D C
Why would you be bent to me?
G Am
Heard your voice in the sound of the piss in the bowl
G Am
Something’s got me feeling emotional echo
C G
I asked my heart what I should do
D C
It won’t stop talking about you

Chorus
G
Because of you I go to sleep singing a song
Am
But the words are wrong
C
I’m scared to sing something new
Am Bm C
I don’t want it to be ‘ cause of you

SOLO same as verse
G Am
G Am
C G
D C
Chorus
G
Because of you I go to sleep singing a song
Am
But the words are wrong
C
I’m scared to sing something new
Am Bm C
I don’t want it to be ‘ cause of you

The cover art (sans words and frame) is the work of Dall-e, a text-to-image ai driven art generator. to get this image, I typed 'a white man with a ned flanders mustache lying in bed with his arm over his eyes, his clothes are singing with a hundred mouths, light like lorde melodrama cover, melancholy and yellow, digital art'

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