Dance With Me

**Dance With Me** is a collaboration by Besomorph and RIELL, and is RIELL's twelth release of 2023. It was released October 20, 2023.

Listen to **Dance With Me**

## Theme

*"So the producer I’m working on this song with, Besomorph, he had this dream where basically he was in winter, he was driving down a highway, and he was in this winter scape. Kind of like a Canadian forest in winter. There was a ton of trees all around, there was snow all over the ground and all the trees were covered in snow. But the trees were also on fire.*

*So he told me about this dream when we started the session, which is how a lot of sessions go where you just talk about stuff, like your relationships, what’s going on in your life, your mental health, all of this stuff. So he told me this story, and said it would be really cool to do a song about that, and I was like, yeah that’s really cool. That’s such a weird dream, especially as someone from Canada, like that’s my motherland.*

*And at the time, I just finished it, it was about a month ago, I was reading this book called “Ledge” by Stacey McEwan…At the same time when he told me about this dream I was reading this book, and for those of you who have or haven’t read it, there’s basically humans and there’s this other race of creatures called the Glacians, and they have to stay in the cold, it has to be super cold for them to survive and when their blood gets too hot they start not being able to function. They’re incredibly strong, they have wings, they can fly, and they have big talons,a nd they can destroy a human no matter what. So there’s this village of people living on what they call the Ledge, which is this really small space on the side of a mountain and there’s no letting off of the ledge…and it’s winter all the time, severe, severe winter. And twice a year, the Glacians come and take people off the ledge, and people never see them again. So that was the premise of the book…*
At the same time that Beso told me about the wasteland with the trees, with the snow, with all of them on fire, I was reading this book and a really popular saying in this book who is living this life is, something that she would say to herself for mental fortitude was “Stay the cold”, so that’s why the first line is “Frozen to the bone, can you stay the cold”."

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Frozen to the bone, can you stay the cold?

What was once in bloom, frost has overthrown

It got claws and teeth, any weakness it sees is

A temptress that coaxes it to life

[Pre-Chorus]

Time is slipping out like an hourglass of sand

The flames are freaking out, ice has frenzied them to

Dance along the edge

One misstep, they're dead

If you're a flame, then I am made of ice

[Chorus]

Dance with me

In the middle of a world on fire

I say forever but I'm a liar

How I wish to take you home

To the end of time

Dance with me

In the middle of the ice age ire

I say forever but I'm a liar

There is nowhere left to go

Ashes dance over our home

[Verse 2]

Hasn't it been fun, complete overload

The system's shutting down, going toe-to-toe

Predator and prey, unbalanced in the fray

The inferno has overplayed its hand

[Pre-Chorus]

Time is running out like the numbers on a bomb

The flames are embers now, ice has smothered them

They danced along the edge

Over it, they're dead

If you're a flame, then I am made of ice

[Chorus]

Dance with me

In the middle of a world on fire

I say forever but I'm a liar

How I wish to take you home

To the end of time

Dance with me

In the middle of the ice age ire

I say forever but I'm a liar

There is nowhere left to go

Ashes dance over our home

## Background

* The song was initially revealed on August 1, 2023, in a TikTok livestream where RIELL wrote the second half of the song after getting feedback about the first half from Besomorph. The second verse and pre-chorus were written during this livestream, RIELL explained the context behind the song, as well as recording a part of the song during this live.
* Besomorph posted a video on YouTube of the full song on October 5, 2023., a whole 2 weeks before the song is set to release everywhere else.
* RIELL's lyric video was released on October 21, 2023.

## Sources

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nF6HxqQ6Js
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quScU3GKcRg