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The Garden

by Arswain

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Based on excerpts from Carolyn Merchant's "The Death of Nature," "The Garden" explores ecofeminism, our fetishization of "nature," and our wrought relationship with the natural world we claim to revere. In fact, it's often our reverence for Mother Earth that wreaks havoc on her in the first place.

COVID-19 expedited the rapid population of the Mountain West & Pacific Southwest, bringing enormous amounts of real estate development, wilderness overuse, and cultural change to remote communities. Newcomers seek a "simpler way of life," when in fact what we see is that many people don't actually want a "simpler life" at all. They wish to continue their way of life in a more rustic, aesthetically pleasing environment.

To quote the "The Garden:" "...erotic delusions of engagement with a world that hates you - and you hate it back."

lyrics

Are you a prophet?
Make me an offer
I need more than a second life
I walked in the garden
I saw your progress
You killed God 'til it killed you
Split in two

I am your mother
I am your daughter
I am the two at the same time
You fucked me harder
Just like the others
I broke down behind you
Split in two

Why can't you answer me?
Why can't you answer me?
(yeah)
Why can't you answer me?

Back in the garden
They call you back to a simple life
Erotic delusions of engagement
With a world that hates you
And you hate it back
The pedestal had the opposite effect
(Why can't you answer me?)

Why can't you answer?
Why can't you answer?

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released June 25, 2021
Written, produced, and performed by Freddy Avis
Mixed by Zachary Moses Ostroff
Mastered by Mike Bozzi

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