Mournography
Mournography
Serialising the album Pretentious Incongruity by Key 13 (@keefmarshall)
Pretentious Incongruity: 2020-2024 is a retrospective compilation looking back at some key milestones in the first five years of Key 13 as a recording identity.
Track 12
I wrote most of this in a few hours while hiding upstairs as the rest of the family watched the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II live on TV. it had been preceded by days of the most bizarre thing (to me) I’d ever seen – thousands and thousands of people queued, for miles, for hours and days, just to be able to file past a closed wooden box which may, or may not, have contained a dead body. I had nothing against the Queen (although I’m not a fan of the Royal Family in general!) but this whole thing left me speechless.
I imagined life as just one long queue.. everyone striving to get to the end, but when they get there, finding nothing.
Composition-wise this could be one of my best, the way it flows together, never lingering too long on any particular phrase. I intended to sing it myself, but there were too many other family members around in the house at the time, so you got Emvoice Jay.
Influences: Pink Floyd. Far too much of their sound here, not especially original. Possibly also Porcupine Tree but they were quite Floyd-influenced at the start anyway.
– From Key13’s Pretentious Incongruity: Track Notes
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Lyrics
So this is the mourning queue
They’ll be waiting until the end
Lost in the mourning queue
Wondering when will it end
Mourning the loss of a fantasy
A rose-tinted memory, half-true
We’re all in the mourning queue
We’re just waiting
For the End
At the end of the mourning queue
No more moving forward
Just standing still
