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Illusion

by Jay Wires

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about

The romantic notion that there is someone out there for everyone sent hundreds of millions of people to online dating apps last year, including Jay Wires. Trapped in a world with seemingly infinite options where temporary relationships are the norm, he decided to set himself apart by putting his profile to music with a brief jingle expressing his intentions, thus giving birth to “Illusion,” a foray into a desolate, chimerical territory, as he succinctly expresses the loneliness and hopelessness that one feels when searching for their soulmate in a landscape that feels more like a carnival’s House of Mirrors than its Tunnel of Love.

A plaintive query prefaces a punchy electronic beat, and synth layers build as Wires’ cri de coeur - raw and emotional, gives way to a chorus driven by a galloping bassline with the intensity of a racing heartbeat, and distant bells like a death knell stab you to your core, evoking that hollow feeling of loss and want. This is a story of being trapped in the confusion of a shimmering fog, with lyrics full of yearning, calling out for The One that idealism tells us is out there for each of us.

Somewhere in this barren wasteland, Jay finds himself “losing faith in destiny,” that this person may not even exist. Hope turns to cynicism, and deliciously melancholic hooks and textures fill the atmosphere with disconsolate laments, intensely conveying the exhaustion that Wires feels in this chase, one that seems futile and unending.

-Mae de Agua

lyrics

ILLUSION
Words and music by Jay Wires ©2024

I been
Searchin
For far too long
Where you been?
Ooh baby, are you listenin?
Ooh ooh ooh

Save me
Help me find that spark again
Be the light I need
To lead me through the dark

Hold me
In your arms
For eternity
Tell me that you'll never leave
And change my mind

I been
Searchin
For far too long
Where you been?
Ooh baby, are you listenin?
Ooh ooh ooh

Head's been
Spinnin'
You’re just wasting my time
Where you been?
Feels like I’m chasing an illusion

Maybe
We were never meant to be
Drifting through uncertainty
Riding with the tide

Lonely
Losing faith in destiny
No more playin hide n seek
Come and change my mind

I been
Searchin
For far too long
Where you been?
Ooh baby, are you listenin?
Ooh ooh ooh

Head's been
Spinnin'
You’re just wasting my time
Where you been?
Feels like I’m chasing an illusion illusion

I been
Searchin
D d d d d d d d
Uh ooo ooo
Where you been?
Ooo baby are you listenin?
Ooh ooh ooh

I been
Searchin
D d d d d d d d
Uh ooo ooo
Where you been?
Feels like I’m chasing an illusion illusion illusion

credits

released July 31, 2024
Written, performed & produced by Jay Wires
Recorded at The Synth Sanctuary
Mixed by Mr. Charles Chicky Reeves
Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange Mike Marsh Mastering, Devon

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Jay Wires New York, New York

NYC-based synthesist Jay Wires dials up catchy electro songs infused with human emotion - synthpop art with a human heart.

With a long history of dealing vintage synths to world-renowned musicians, Jay Wires will finally start releasing music of his own from his debut EP, ‘Kaboom!’, in August 2022 through Yes Trigger Music. ... more

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