Rise in Love (song)

**Genre**

"Rise in Love" is a multi-part song written by Mikaela Thorn and Patrick S. Barry, recorded under Thorn's alias ThornBrain as the title track of her fifth album, *Rise in Love*. Unlike the other multi-part suites on the album, "Bloodstar" and "Supermoon", the three parts of the song are spread across the album, though they are combined together as a bonus track. Thorn's original proof-of-concept instrumental demo is also a bonus track.

## Segments

1. "Rise in Love (ft. Patrick S. Barry)"
2. "Disassociation (Rise in Love, Pt. 2)"
3. "Rise in Love (Pt. 3)"

## About

Thorn wrote and recorded the proof-of-concept demo from late at night on September 29, 2020 until the early hours of the next day, building off of a driving, power chord-based bass riff she'd written in July and a motorik drumbeat. The bass riff was too difficult to play at once, so she recorded each of the two strings individually and overdubbed them together, running them through the same effects to replicate playing them at the same time. The title is a play on the phrase "fall in love", suggesting that love is something that should lift you rather than make you fall, but ultimately no particular meaning carried over to the album.

Thorn took heavy inspiration from the motorik works of German musicians Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother, particularly their respective and collective albums *La Düsseldorf*, *Neu! 75*, and *Flammende Herzen*. These albums also served as major guiding forces for when she began writing and recording the full *Rise in Love* album in 2021; all of the other tracks were written to be at 145BPM like "Rise in Love", to replicate these albums' ability to maintain interest, beauty and excitement in their long, repetitive tracks.

Part 1 has lead vocals by Patrick S. Barry, Part 2 is instrumental, and Part 3 has lead vocals by Mikaela Thorn. Barry offered to collaborate with Thorn on a song for the album as thanks for her part in making "Bird Ghosts", and she enlisted him for lyrics, vocals and piano in part 1. Barry took inspiration for his piano from Billy Joel, Elton John, and Claude Debussy.

Thorn decided late in recording to add two more parts: "Disassociation" was added to serve as a mid-point transition between the "Bloodstar" and "Supermoon" suites, taking additional inspiration from "Kometenmelodie 2" by Kraftwerk and "Dislocation" by Ultravox. "Part 3" was added to serve as a bookend to the album, this time sung by Thorn to signify her transition away from masculinity. She reused Barry's vocals and piano for these parts: "Disassociation" is built off his synth slowed down to half speed and pitch-shifted to form a new melody, and "Part 3" is built off unused and adapted lyrics from "Part 1", and it uses unused sections of his piano from "Part 1" throughout as well as in a piano solo. The piano solo is an additional reference to La Düsseldorf, namely their song "Cha Cha 2000".

## Lyrics

### Part 1

Long lost dreams surround

Held against her chest

And always towards the sun

She will rise in love

She will rise in love

The world is on her side

Keeps her stomach full

Under the rain

She will rise in love

She will rise in love

Fallen from a flower

Graceful as she sings

She'll never fall again

She will rise in love

She will rise in love

### Part 3

Fallen from the sky

Rests against her chest

The world is on her side

She will rise in love

She will rise in love

We were sold another cloth

Wove with ephemeral dismay

Yet she fills our minds for longer than they’d say

We will rise in love

We will rise in love

Better dreams arrive

Our failure fulfills

We'll never fall again

We will rise in love

We will rise in love