Thing start out quiet – a bass line, a little bit of white noise shaking, a nice reverby kick, until something beautiful appears at :25… a cut-down trance lead with a little bit of echo to it, arpeggiates and dances its way around the chording, eventually leading into the vocals (accompanied by a nice splash of drum machine clapping)

I never knew this could happen to me
I know now fragility
I know there’s people who I haven’t told
I know of people who are getting old

The words are whispery with white noise, vocorded to a ‘singing robot’ degree, and as they finish up the trance synth gets expansive, brightening then filter-tweaking down to a muted sound, before bringing in the next verse. The second verse might as well be the first , and the third follows quickly after. Finally at 2:57 the instruments have had enough – they drop out for a second to give the vocals a chance to introduce the peak of the song, where the synth brightens up and starts rolling higher, accompanied by some additional percussion. This can’t keep up for too long, and relaxes at 3:45 to let the final verse have some breathing room, this one with less clutter then the others, allowing the depth of the vocal effects to be really appreciated. Things stay quiet for the rest of the song – the apex has come and gone, the song’s assets are played out, and it meekly returns to where it started – a bass line, and a kick drum.

It’s kind of like a sudden rainstorm, with hand clap clashes of thunder and lightning, washes of wind-swept rain, whispery streams suddenly engorged by an extra payload… not a very complicated song, or a very in-depth one, although it manages to run nearly 5 minutes without getting too repetitive. The excellent use of splashy hand claps, vocorded lyrics, and that trance synth line are what make this song irresistible to me. The “me/fragility” rhyme works really well too.