In “Borrowed Time” from Bomethius, singer-songwriter Jonathan Hodges teams up with his sister, Caroline (Wilted August), for a haunting dive into the nightmares of internal monologue, family strife, and self-loathing.
The siblings’ voices drift and blend atop a dreamy meld of delicate guitars, eerie synths, keening trumpet, and the lumbering plucks of upright bass.
“Borrowed Time” conjures the dread of a faraway siren drawing closer while the verses audit the barbed insults, doubts, and accusations that sink their teeth into the mind over years of pernicious relationships.
Like an elegy for wounded souls, the duet closes with the spectral strains of Caroline’s scatting refrain — “you’re fine” — a promising sign of the heavy things to come in Bomethius’ next full-length album.
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Lyrics
Awful smug for a rebel
Who’s been had
But you don’t stand a chance in my world
You don’t stand a chance with that girl
Such a loser
Who’d believe that I birthed ya’
He’s not going anywhere
Don’t you know that I own you?
I’ve sealed the wax of your minds
What’s that you’re reading?
We bought the bed where you sleep
You don’t stand a chance in my world
You don’t stand a chance with that girl
You’re living on borrowed time
You’re laughing on borrowed time
You’re living on my time
’til you’re not, ’til you’re not
He’s not going anywhere
Don’t you know that I own you?
I’ve sealed the wax of their minds
We love our children
We love our children
We love our children
We love our children
You’re fine, you’re fine
You’re fine, you’re fine
‘Til we don’t
‘Til we don’t
‘Til we don’t