09 // VELVET SNOW
SOURCE: What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) · GENRE: Deep House / Melodic House · BPM: 122
"Greensleeves at 3am. The mystery doesn't resolve."
What Child Is This is set to Greensleeves, one of the oldest melodies in the English folk tradition. The question it asks (who is this person, why does this feel significant, what am I sensing that I can't name) is the question late-night deep house asks at 3am. Velvet Snow slows everything down. The bass is warm and rolling. The vocal is close and breathy. The city is asleep. The melody is drifting on the breeze. The song doesn't answer the question; neither does the carol. It just holds the mystery and lets you sit in it. 'The babe, the son of Mary' at the outro is kept verbatim. After five minutes of deep house it lands differently than it does in church. That's the point.
> LYRICS
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Who is this? Who is this? The shadows stretch across the frozen lake The city sleeps but we are wide awake A melody is drifting on the breeze It whispers through the branches of the trees No angels singing from the height Just neon glowing in the night We keep the secret low and deep While all the world is fast asleep What child is this, who laid to rest? On Mary's lap is sleeping? The rhythm beats inside my chest The promise we are keeping Close your eyes... Feel the cold... This... This... Velvet Snow. So bring Him incense, gold, and myrrh The lines are getting soft and blur We don't need the morning light We live inside the velvet night The King of kings salvation brings But we are dancing just for things That we can feel but cannot see A midnight electricity What child is this? What child is this? The beat is rising in the mist. Let it flow. Greensleeves... Greensleeves... Velvet Snow. The babe, the son of Mary.
> STREAM
Curated and architected: Brian. Generated: Suno. Production method: Cyborg Synthesis. Mastered for high-fidelity destruction.