Name: The Alchemist
Duration: P00H05M21S
Description: "The Alchemist" is the second single from my upcoming second album. It’s a Baroque-infused Electropop odyssey that revisits the iconic story of “Frankenstein” as a metaphor for queer narratives of body dysmorphia and parental shame.

The Alchemist

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"The Alchemist" is the second single from my upcoming second album. It’s a Baroque-infused Electropop odyssey that revisits the iconic story of “Frankenstein” as a metaphor for queer narratives of body dysmorphia and parental shame.

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Ouch!
Goes my
Stuttering heart
Am I
The one alive

Who do I hear that
Speaks this voice
What to call of this strange noise
Outside
Am I alive

Make my image of your kind
Held in his eyes
Then cast aside
How I
Long for life

To plead with lead
For gold instead
Disappointment makes his bed
How I
Long for life

What you're left to find
An image of your kind
What you're left to find
A lust
For
Life

Frankenstein brought flesh to life
How I wish I could to mine
Hand over fist
He lost his bliss

Horrified by flesh like mine
How I yearn the love of life
The Alchemist
Had lost his bliss

No brimstone
Makes home of my bones
No brimstone
Makes home of my bones

Will you burn it down
Your castle to the ground

Will you burn me to the ground

Dragonwell
Tangerine
Polka dot
Glove

Snakeskin
Clementine
Black tie
Love

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released March 31, 2023
"The Alchemist" written, performed, and produced by James Knott
Mix & Master - Wayne Knott and James Knott

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Mortimer, Be Quiet. Toronto, Ontario

Mortimer, Be Quiet. is the musical project of emerging Toronto based artist James Knott. Named after their creaky-voiced grump of a piano, Mortimer. looks to make deliriously off-kilter oddball pop music; with the masochistically wry confessional awareness of a singer-songwriter, but the absurdity of a mad scientist desperately seeking satisfaction (and never finding it). ... more

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