Even When It's Bent

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Night Teacher's 2021 single, 'Even When It's Bent', combines elements of an acoustic ballad with layers of mellotron, upright and synth bass, and a catchy drum groove underlying poignantly haunting lyrics. Inspired by the experience of looking for security in unsustainable places, this new song explores whether a messy reach for what we need is ever truly wrong, if it propels us forward towards what we truly seek.

lyrics

At an uncertain point
enough is enough
when it all becomes
just stuff

you go out in the street
looking for your sweet
and you find instead
a stranger

he takes your palm
and it says you’re strong
enough to be taken home

when all it ever
could have read
is i’d rather not be
alone

someday soon
i’ll learn to want less
but hope is a rope
even when it’s bent
even when it’s bent
even when

desire is the plot
that can never stop
so the sword becomes a drone
and the kings of the seas
can’t handle defeat
so they never bring us
home

someday soon
i’ll learn to want less
but hope is a rope
even when it’s bent
even when it’s bent
even when

even when it’s bent, it’s bent
even when it’s bent, it’s bent

You give the whole life of one of your nights
To a perfect stranger
And that night lives on and it comes to belong
To your perfect sense of danger

someday soon
i’ll learn to want less
but hope is a rope
even when it’s bent
even when it’s bent
even when

credits

from Night Teacher, released June 20, 2020
Songwriting, composition, production and vocals: Lilly Bechtel
Supporting vocals: Addie Horan
Drums, synth, mellotron, production, recording and mixing: Matt Wyatt
Upright bass: Brian Wahl

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Night Teacher Charlottesville, Virginia

Night Teacher is a collaboration between poet and singer-songwriter Lilly Bechtel and multi-instrumentalist and producer Matt Wyatt. Since the release of their debut record "Night Teacher" the duo has been featured on NPR, and noted by the music magazine Relix as an “artist to pay attention to.” In 2021 Night Teacher begun to tour regionally as a band and are currently working on a second album ... more

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