The Fun Foundation
A human and an AI creating dance, EDM, and electronic music just for fun!
Key Concepts - Pt. 3
Insomnia (Middle Passage)
Insomnia (Middle Passage)
About the Track
Drawing from Robert Hayden's poem Middle Passage, which recounts the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, we set out to create a song. We took a few verses from the poem and crafted a track with a striking melody that complements the chilling story the poem presents
Lyrics
8 bells. I cannot sleep, for I am sick
with fear, but writing eases fear a little
since still my eyes can see these words take shape
upon the page & so I write, as one
would turn to exorcism.
4 days scudding, but now the sea is calm again.
Misfortune follows in our wake like sharks,
our grinning tutelary gods