Porter Robinson - Sea Of Voices - Commentary lyrics

"Sea Of Voices" was an immense effort
That song has gone through
So many iterations "Sea Of Voices"
First had this weird
Weird structure - it wasn't called
"Sea Of Voices" then -
Um but it was a totally different chord
Progression, totally different sets
Of sounds, it was
Still kind of a long builder but it
Was more the sounds were more contemporary
I
Think it was less of a vintage-sounding thing
And the chord progression was much longer
And less
Simple - and in my opinion less beautiful -
And it builded and builded and builded
Built built built, until it played
This tiny little sine melody
Sine wave synth melody and
Then, that actually had a Vocaloid vocal on
It, originally, and the the lyrics was, if
I can recall, I believe it was
It went into this like
Bass guitar, and it was like
Imitates bass guitar chord progression
And then over that it was "We’ll stir our
Spirit's 'til we're one", uh "And lacking
Borders, we’ll become" and then, yeah
"We'll stir our
Spirit's 'til we're one, and lacking borders
We'll
Be gone" that was the lyric originally
And it was an AVANNA Vocaloid, it
Was a Vocaloid vocal
Like "Fresh Static Snow" or "Sad Machine" or
Something and, y'know
That version is still kind
Of dear to me, but I think, you
Know, Breanne came in and she sang it
And absolutely blew it away and uh, i
Think the way "Sea Of Voices" ended up
Is much more touching but, I still
I still remember the original version"