Warm, spacey and emotional. Cataline will leave you wanting more. The duo recently opened up to us about their new track, “To Be Alive.”
“To Be Alive” is a song about dancing on the ashes, about reveling in the destruction, about playing a giant break beat while Rome burns.
I started with the concept before I wrote the song. I had just finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and I was thinking about living in the Matrix, so to speak, and how maybe being able to translate our brains into binary would be a way to live forever. I decided I wanted to make an album about that- about the first people to upload their minds to the cloud- and I figured I’d call it the Turing Test (named after a test suggested by Alan Turing to identify whether or not we’d created artificial intelligence). Then that night I was listening to something on the news- some terrible destruction or another- and realized this was all going down and our time on Earth couldn’t last that much longer, but then it occurred to me that instead of being depressing that thought was kind of liberating. If the ship is sinking why not throw the craziest, wildest Bacchanal the world had ever seen. That’s what the song is about.
“To Be Alive” lyrics:
We see it in the lines of our faces.
The weight in our eyes of amazement.
It’s alright it’s alright it’s alright.
We’ll spend all our time getting wasted.
When we were young, we believed in
what we’d become, but this is all.
Oh to be alive. Here at the end of time…
We put our knees to the pavement,
faint from the weight of amazement.
It’s alright it’s alright it’s alright.
It’s time that we finally faced it.
Oh to be alive. Here at the end of time…
When we were young, we believed in
what we’d become, but this is all.
Oh to be alive. Here at the end of time…
