Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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A Charming Defense is a Chicago based Synthpop producer that alternates between darker and dreamlike. A Charming Defense tries to connect direct, hook driven songwriting with a love of music that spans multiple disparate influences (from 80s German Synthpop and French Coldwave to 2000s DIY MySpace bedroom pop) in an effort to create something unique that sonically honors the emotions behind the songs, despite familiar themes of loss and purposefully repetitive beats.

Written and performed by A Charming Defense
Produced and arranged by Gabriel Pelenson and A Charming Defense
Mixed by Gabriel Pelenson
Mastered by Adam Stilson at Mixed for the Masses
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Lyrics:

A charming defense to crown
Will never cease to seize
It bites down to withhold blooming things

Pure and honest from the start
To lose wonder sad to see
There was nothing left to save
Exacerbated, charred

If you fly out can’t you find another way to say you will be separating all of this flesh
If you fly out can’t you find another way to say you will be separating all of this flesh

Separating flesh
Your body burns
Your body heals
Your body feels pain
Separate flesh
Your body burns
Your body heals
Your body feels pain

Knocking the flowers down
Throw them all away
Selfish times they’re such a bore you wish they’d never stay
Too far away to feel what I feel what I’m feeling
Abstract paintings are beautiful until they’re peeling
Surfacing tension will rise into steam
All of the time I find something in me has died so tell me
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