Dystopia

You know how everyone is going around getting diagnosed with "environment anxiety" and having panic attacks about the impending climate crisis? Well, guess what, I was having panic attacks about the environment way before it was cool. 23-year old Zoë was doing this before it was cool and writing very deep songs about it, actually. 

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 This song tells the story of a group of people who are trudging through a post-apocalyptic wasteland searching for food. "We are hungry for meat" referring to the fact that they're mostly foraging and not getting adequate nutrition. They walk at night because climate change has made it much too dangerous to walk in the heat of the day. And you know... "cages with cavernous eyes." Ok, real talk, the last lyrics suggests that this band of survivors is burning the bodies of the fallen. If you haven't figured out by now that Death rides high in the saddle throughout my body of work, consider this your initiation. 

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I wrote the chord progression to this song during a time that I was really, really into "Tecumseh Valley", by Townes Van Zandt. And I wrote the lyrics right after I read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It's one of my darkest songs, theme-wise, but I do have a soft spot for the lyrics we're not romantics, we burn everything that we find. Because of course, surviving the end of civilization will be all about practicality.