“AEIOU” by Wye Oak – A Song Feature

     Pour one out for yet another venue visit that passed away as a casualty of coronavirus. It’s July 22nd and Wye Oak will not be at The Independent in San Francisco. As a eulogy to the opportunity, we post “AEIOU.”

     Wye Oak explains:

      Our song “AEIOU” is about the inadequacy of language. It was written around the time that those currently in power took it upon themselves to think that they could minimize the existence of certain people by removing the words that we currently use to define them—like transgender—from use. Language is bigger than the powers that try to control it, but we are so much bigger than language. We are so much more than anything that can be suggested with words.

     The song is a single from the EP “Now Horizon,” which is out July 31st via Merge Records. Wye Oak is the duo of Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack in Baltimore, Maryland. The EP also features the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

     “AEIOU” by Wye Oak 

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Lyrics of “AEIOU” by Wye Oak

If you speak my name

Use my real name

The one I gave myself

A word can suggest my likeness

As a painting

Suggests distance

But mountains are not pictures of mountains

Or the letters that spell the word

In the language we are speaking

The foundation and its meaning

Does not crumble underfoot

For those who do not have the word

They stand, stand

Regardless

They stand, stand

Regardless