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FIONA APPLE – EVERY SINGLE NIGHT/PERIPHERY

Have you ever experienced a panic attack? It is quite simply the feeling of your mind attacking your body’s state of peace. Like a dog broken from its leash as a rabbit hops hurriedly in the distance, your mind races away and you have nothing to do but watch in fear. Then your brain becomes an antagonistic foreign entity, uncomfortably sitting on the top of your head… kind of like a dead octopus sitting on your crown, with its long cold tentacles sliding across your cheeks, and you would do anything to just get it off. In Fiona Apple’s song Every Single Night from the new album The Idler Wheel… she describes it so perfectly:

Every single night
I endure the flight
Of little wings of white-flamed
Butterflies in my brain
These ideas of mine
Percolate the mind
Trickle down the spine
Swarm the belly, swelling to a blaze
That’s when the pain comes in
Like a second skeleton
Trying to fit beneath the skin
I can’t fit the feelins in…
Every single night’s a fight with my brain

The music mirrors the stress as her trembling voice juxtaposes eerily with the lullaby xylophone. Eventually the fear hits a pinnacle as her voice raises to a haunting tribal chant every time she hits the word “brain”, and a held low piano note looms overtop forecasting impending doom. It is a creepy little insight into the off-kilter mind of Ms. Apple.

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