sorcerer
By mwmwmw on April 7, 2024 7:09 pm
this track was directly inspired by the movie "Sorcerer" by William Friedkin. It doesn't necessarily directly reference anything from the film, but I wrote 90% of it while sitting and replaying certain scenes and loosely matching parts.
This notion possesses me. "The idea that we don’t really have control over our own fates, neither our births nor our deaths, it’s something that has haunted me since I was intelligent enough to contemplate something like it" - William Friedkin says about the meaning of his movie.
I alternate between two states, attempts to change the will of fate (become a master of my own destiny) and giving into fate, relinquishing control and seeing where life takes me. I believe that both as a rule lead to peril, neither are truly "good." It is between these baffling contradiction that I find life holds me in stasis (alive?). When the two combine, it crests as a sort of unbounded miracle that you couldn't have done all on your own (we've all experienced this at some point, where the "stars align") and when the two force compete, life rips you to pieces.
To William, the sorcerer was evil. But, to me the sorcerer is one who has overcome the will of fate alone, and now makes demands of it. Wouldn't such magic terrify you? Wouldn't it be best if no one had power over it?
"No matter how much you struggle, you get blown up." -William Friedkin
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