The new record, “Veil of Mystery,” comes out on 15 January. Until then I will write about one track here every day — nine posts, nine tracks, the last one on release day.
“Mystery” opens a record about a woman’s mystery and about surrendering to it. It is the track where everything begins — and one the record will come back to once more.
A Woman Made of Nature
The first line: “Her eyes hold the moon, in a tide I can’t read.”
The whole first verse builds her out of the elements: a spirit like a river, a voice like the wind, stars in her soul. The second goes further: “Her laughter’s a storm, her silence a sea.”
There is not a single detail from everyday life here. She is not described like someone from next door, but like the weather — something nobody controls.
Reason Loses
As early as the fourth line: “Lost in her cycles, where my reason loses control.”
In the second verse: “My logic unravels in her mystical ways.” And in the bridge: “No map can guide me… no logic can save…”
This is not a complaint. In this song, losing control does not hurt. It is a price someone pays willingly.
A Death That Is Not Death
The third verse holds a sentence that is easy to misread, because the end of a line cuts through it: “I’m lost in her nature, embracing my death / Of ego and reason, reborn in her grace.”
Read as a whole, it says: I accept the death of my ego and my reason, and I am reborn in her grace. It is not about the end of a life, only about the end of someone who had to understand everything.
The same move will come back on the record several more times: getting lost in order to be found.
A Motif That Will Return
The chorus gives the record its title: “Veil of her mystery… it pulls me under… / Veil of her mystery… I surrender…”
The outro goes: “From the veil of her mystery… through the night I will roam…” Every one of the nine outros on this record begins the same way — with “From the.” It is a small detail, but you can hear it when you listen to the whole record.
And this whole song will come back once more, in almost the same words. More on that five posts from now.
You can hear the track on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music.
In the next post I will write about “Blinding Love” — about a love you drink like poison, knowing that it is one.
Thank you for being here.
Adam Smentoch Creator of the Dust Anthem project
