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Chirin's Bell

from Burnout by Ethan Woods

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When I visited her for her college graduation in Minneapolis, my sister Alice showed me an animated movie called Ringing Bell. The plot of the film centers around a playful little lamb named Chirin, who wears a bell around his neck. His adventurous spirit leads him astray, and he becomes lost in the mountains, separated from the herd. A wolf discovers him and, rather than eating him, adopts him. The wolf raises Chirin as though he were a wolf cub, and Chirin grows up to be a fearsome ram. He ultimately returns to his herd as a predator, not realizing that his prey is the very flock he once came from.

For me, this song is about the struggles to remain true to yourself, your art, and your community when faced with the transformative power of the desires to earn clout, wealth, and notoriety. I think of it as a shout-out to all the artists out there who struggle with marketing themselves, who try to keep their soul from being crushed, who know the paradoxes of trying to market one’s self authentically. It’s also a shout-out to my sister, a comic artist and the goodest person I know.

The song ends with the howling of one of Trevor’s neighbor’s dogs, repeated over and over again to segue into “Aster’s Song,” which is also about a dog. Wolves don’t necessarily have to be fearsome.

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Little lamb, little lamb
You have your bad days
Contaminate
The herd
With a call from beyond
Your reflection in the pond

Should I bare my teeth
Like a coyote cloud
And prod the apple hill on
The hill
Bare my teeth, set my law
Turn my hooves into claws

Waited on your say
I itemize the time you take with your
Indecision
Sometimes I wonder to myself

Did I fuck up with my big plan?
Played itself out, are we nowhere?
Blame myself
Did I fuck up?

A little lamb is what I am
I have my bad days
I long for the pleasant shape of
The herd
Beyond the wooden fence
Can we remain good friends?

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from Burnout, track released March 22, 2022

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