The song delves into the weight of human connections and how one life affects so many.
Some find this song disturbing and eerie. Yes, there is darkness, but also light. It is a song about seeing the people around you. Sometimes the ones who carry the heaviest burdens don’t always notice it themselves.
This single is the first release from our forthcoming album Capsule.
We started with a guitar riff, and then the rest of the song was built around this riff and Irene’s vocals. For us, it was a new way of working that naturally led to the hybrid of rock song and synths.
Written, arranged, performed and produced by Tic Tic (Irene Svendsen and Kai Drange), the single has been mixed by Christer André Cederberg, with artwork by Kjell Otto Karlsen.
Said about While the Shadows Grow
It’s not a song, it’s a scene.
Between the echoes of Dead Can Dance, the emotional density of Massive Attack and the abrasive textures of a Depeche Mode in its prime, Tic Tic weaves a work where melancholy is not a posture, but raw material.
Mental strain, compassion fatigue, and unseen battles craft a visceral sonic experience that lingers like a memory you can’t shake.
– Fernando Nunez, Visual Atelier 8
It’s both haunting and oddly warm, like standing under a flickering streetlamp in freezing rain.
– Olivia, Cinematic Giants
Lyrics
While the Shadows Grow
You’re smiling while your insides burn,
you don’t know that I can tell.
“I got this”, or so you say,
but I’m not so sure anymore.
On a Christmas Eve,
he had crossed the sea,
again and again and again and again.
Screaming, on the floor
while we held him down.
Down, down, down, down
You’re smiling while your insides burn,
you don’t know that I can tell
“I got this”, or so you say,
but I’m not so sure anymore.
They ask, you give
and forget to live,
again and again and again and again.
Your head held low, while the shadows grow
again and again and again and again.
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These are the lives
all alive
because of you.
You’re smiling while your insides burn,
you don’t know that I can tell.
“I got this”, or so you say,
but I’m not so sure anymore.
Tic Tic 
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