Porter Robinson - Natural Light - Commentary lyrics

"Natural Light", to me, is such
An interlude to me
It's kind of a homage - especially the intro
- to the years that I spent making
Stuff they were calling 'IDM' back in
The day the much maligned name for, y'know
'Intelligent Dance Music' back then
Just lots of glitches, y'know, aphex
Twin, Squarepusher, that whole-
Venetian Snares, all that stuff yeah
I wanted- I liked a lot of those rhythms
And just almost arbitrarily cut-up loops and
I thought it'd be cool to have
Another kind of, I don't know
Late-sounding, sassy
Semi-soulful beat mixed with that
IDM stuff from my childhood, and that
Bell mеlody yeah, I the 'Bum, bum-bum-bum
Bum-bum-buuum' That's such a sad melody to
Mе, and when I hear it I
Think of, I don't know, i
Think of like, guerillas or
Something, I don't know
There's something very kind
Of not mournful, it's not grieving, it's
Not that kind of sadness, it's
Melancholic, it's like a idle sadness
To me in fact
'Idle Sadness' or 'Idle Longing'
Was a name- was
A tentative song title that never actually
Got used because it was embarrassing but, uh
Yeah that bell melody is
A little special to me and it's
Meek, y'know, it's not up-front, it's shy"