What are Words?

from Simone Staring Away (EP) by Imran Ahmed

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This song attempts to explore how words, though just air from a mouth, can be used to cause actual physical harm. Words can slow a human being down, depress him or her. But in order to have this power, words must be crafted rather than random or idiosyncratic.

To explore what it means to craft words, this song presents a first half with deliberate and considered lyrics, and a second half with improvised lyrics.

lyrics

What are words, what are words?
I hear the pitter-patter of the rain
I'm dousing myself in the sound

Such a mood, such a mood
that words can bring
I hear the wind hustling by

and in the most rosy light
you saw me for the first time
you were so slight, you were so slight
your words were only kind

what are words, they are just air
like the wind is just air
so are words, though it's hard to believe

when they sting, when they slice
like the breaking of a vase
words they seem more than just air

when the most rosy light turned off
your words were not as soft
how can puffs of air from your mouth
make me feel so without?

I sit at the window's edge
listening to the pitter-patter of the rain...

(improvised lyrics)

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from Simone Staring Away (EP), released August 25, 2013

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Imran Ahmed Brooklyn, New York

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The Deli magazine compared Imran Ahmed's music to Serge Gainsbourg and added that the music "compliments hammocks rocking sexily in exotic locations."

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