FAWM: "the wedding"

the wedding

2025 by @tippyteapot · @n1742

Liner Notes

#collab Cyndy: This is my fourth FAWM; each year I have had the distinct pleasure of collaborating with Nigel.

Nigel creates really interesting and provoking musical compositions, then lets me add lyrics and vocals. Nigel then rounds out the production adding in additional elements that always bring the whole song together.

Thanks Nigel - always a highlight of FAWM for me!!

Cyndy’s fabulous lyrics and interpretations bring me back to FAWM year after year. I thought last years “Waltz of the Watchers” was amazing and have listened to it a lot but I like this one even better. I thought recorders in the intro would give it a spooky medieval feel and then tried out a few of my flute notes towards the end. Cyndy you’ve done it again. Thank you my friend.

Lyrics

blood and bone and bated breath fire and frost and fancy dress skin and sighs and sentiment promises that won’t be kept lonely in a crowded room, give the people candy hearts and cream balloons faces look a masquerade in the moonlight, omens in the quartet’s tune

side by side miles away bad news bride rotted bouquet

first we dined and then we danced then we bid adieu romance touches, glances, words we pledged broken things we cannot mend crowded in an empty room, in the shadows, sticky floors and flat balloons airy mouths and glassy eyes in the moonlight, misty with unspoken gloom

soon, too soon miles away hollow groom faded to grey

Comments

@williamjames 2025

Sounds little medieval at times playful and innocent at other. This has the entire package ready. Sounds very polished and quality. Interesting story in the lyrics. i wonder what happened? Left to interpretation like all good ones do.

@kadmad202 2025

Wow! This has layers upon layers, both musically and lyrically. The dark melancholy running through it is very evocative and initially brought visions of Miss Haversham and her grotesque and rotting wedding banquet. But the sadness and poignancy is in the loss of a marriage that was once experienced, not just longed-for. And the slightly askew melody and disconnected lyrics masterfully show the emotional devastation that comes from that. Kudos to you both!

@mandolinda 2025

I imagine cinematic score for something like a version of Alice through the looking glass or a version of Snow White gone wrong. The whole package was mastered perfectly.

@moonraccoon 2025

Dreamy and beautiful, prog without a single rock or roll in earshot.

@coolparadisoMod 2025

What a nice set of lyrics and the music and the changes keep it very interesting! This is really excellent , that “lonely in a crowded room” is so hooky!

@ductapeguyMod 2025

So very Beatley. The carnival feel of the arrangement is a perfect setting for the tale. Love the contrasting languid and double time phrases.Such a sad story for what is normally viewed as a joyous occasion.