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From: Relatives in Descent (2017)
Lyrics:
The sound that you're hearing across the river
Saying "everything's fine"
The sound across the river into your brain pan
Saying "everything's fine"
The sound going across the ocean
Saying "everything's fine"
It says want - what you are given
Need - what you'll never have
Never have, and never will - never will
The old Windsor humming
Across the river
From the U.S. of A
Saying, "everything's fine"
It says want - what you are given
Need - what you'll never have
Never have, and never will - never will
The Windsor hum
The Windsor humming
The winds are humming
The Windsor Hum is a documented phenomenon of a persistent hum or droning noise heard by some people in various locations across the globe, including Windsor, a Canadian city across the river from Detroit. Significantly, a 2016 report suggested the hum may be caused by American industry:
"Studies commissioned of the 35Hz sound by the Canadian government suggest a more mundane source; pointing to Zug island, an American industrial area located a few miles down the river from the bridge that separates Windsor and Detroit."
In this song, Joe Casey adopts this theory to weave the hum into extended metaphor of the United States' insidious influence on the world and of it shaky institutions and beliefs.
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
From: Relatives in Descent (2017)
Lyrics:
The sound that you're hearing across the river
Saying "everything's fine"
The sound across the river into your brain pan
Saying "everything's fine"
The sound going across the ocean
Saying "everything's fine"
It says want - what you are given
Need - what you'll never have
Never have, and never will - never will
The old Windsor humming
Across the river
From the U.S. of A
Saying, "everything's fine"
It says want - what you are given
Need - what you'll never have
Never have, and never will - never will
The Windsor hum
The Windsor humming
The winds are humming
The Windsor Hum is a documented phenomenon of a persistent hum or droning noise heard by some people in various locations across the globe, including Windsor, a Canadian city across the river from Detroit. Significantly, a 2016 report suggested the hum may be caused by American industry:
"Studies commissioned of the 35Hz sound by the Canadian government suggest a more mundane source; pointing to Zug island, an American industrial area located a few miles down the river from the bridge that separates Windsor and Detroit."
In this song, Joe Casey adopts this theory to weave the hum into extended metaphor of the United States' insidious influence on the world and of it shaky institutions and beliefs.
