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Down the Railway Spine

by Realma

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A tumultuous epic at the spiraling cores of inner dystopia ☄️🌊

Realma's gritty single 'Down the Railway Spine' steers you into an action-packed odyssey across terror-charged mental landscapes 🌌

Bordering the experimental edge between a synthpop sound and game-style orchestral soundtrack music, Realma’s pulsating, action-packed single ‘Down the Railway Spine’ is a tumultuous epic, which stems from the artist’s personal struggle against PTSD. In that vein, the lyrics and the music both describe those dark times when the artist had been fighting a whirlpool of emotions in episodes of mental deterioration. Yet, there is also a heroic undertone to the track, something undefeated, addressing those pieces of us that remain courageous and continue to defy even the eyes of the worst downward spirals. As such, not only does Realma attempt to slash her own internal demons in this single, but dedicates it to all those battling trauma too.

lyrics

(I need help
I really need help
Somebody
Anyone
Please, please, please)

(Seems like the end of time
And the world
Are you ready?)

Within a wave of
Terror
Splashing over
(Over)
Stuck in all
Darkest corners
(All the dark)

Whoa oh- oh
Whoa oh- oh
(Down a gap in my mind with synaptic kind of shocks)
(Shaken by uncontrollable thoughts)
Whoa oh- oh

(Are you ready?)

(For the wave)
Swallowed
Right beneath
(Right beneath)
Trembling's all I feel

Within a heat of
Terror
Flashing over
(All over)
Stuck in the most
Feverish maze

I need to find an exit
I need to find an exit
Whoa oh- oh
(No exit from the gap)
I need to run
Whoa oh
Whoa oh- oh
(Mind the gap that's driving me towards the edge)
Whoa oh- oh
(A place inside one can barely tolerate)

(Through the heat)
Swallowed
Right beneath
(Right beneath)
Trembling's all I feel
Trembling's all I feel
(It's all I feel)
Trembling
(I keep trembling)

It's pulling me deeper
Within
(Deep within)
That horrific event
That's dragging me through
A landscape of
Terror
(All that terror)
Nothing to hold on to
Bear it
Just bear it

(Are you ready?)

Whoa oh- oh

(For the wave)
Swallowed
Right beneath
(Right beneath)
Trembling's all I feel
Trembling's all I feel
(It's all I feel)
Trembling
(I keep trembling)

It's all I feel

(Seems like the end of time
And the world
Are you ready?)

It's all I feel

Whoa oh
(Mind the gap)
Whoa oh
(Between your trains of thought)
Whoa oh
(Down a gap in my mind with synaptic kind of shocks)
(Shaken by uncontrollable thoughts)
Whoa oh
Whoa

(Are you ready?)

credits

released February 23, 2024
Music, lyrics, arrangement, vocals and production by Ariadna Vrljanović-Zhao (Realma)

Mixing and mastering by Dejan Tomka / Red Light Studio

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Realma is a Serbian-Chinese multi-genre music artist, composer and polymath. A true sorceress at heart, she weaves her music into sound spells that summon distant lands of the mind. Like the crystals of a sorceress, each song, composition or animated music video in Realma's audiovisual universe is like a distinctive portal. Each brewing in a different genre with its own alchemy of influences. ... more

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