Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry Shares New Song I Was In The World (Was the World in Me)
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Susan Moss
Richard Reed Parry has revealed the new song and live video for I Was in the World (Was the World in Me).
The track will feature on the Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist's upcoming album, 'Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1', part one of two instalments, which is out this Friday, September 21 via ANTI- Records. The second instalment is set to arrive next spring.
"I Was in the World, Was the World in Me is a song about the elements and our bodies being inextricably interwoven - about being a human and experiencing a moment in nature that’s so direct and powerful that we lose our sense of where we end and the world around us begins.
"A simultaneously blissful and terrifying moment of "losing yourself": swimming in a river, realizing that the same beautiful tactile sensation you’re having in the water is, in a way, a living version of what you might experience at the moment of death. The molecules of your body actually merging with the molecules of the world around you… we become ashes, thrown into the sea, absorbed up into the clouds, raining down onto the land and into the rivers… as we turn, turn, turn again."
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