Bleed Magic

"**Bleed Magic**" is the fifth and final release by iDKHOW before the publishing of *1981 Extended Play*, which was released two weeks later with this song featured on it. The track was released on October 26th, 2018, a year after "Choke" was released. "Bleed Magic" is the first song released by iDKHOW that does not have a music video. The lyric video for this song was released the same day as the song itself, and a Twitter Q&A for the song also happened. The track was written by Dallon Weekes, Drew Fulk, Jason Hill and David Pramik.

## About

### Lyrics

During a Twitter Q&A about "Bleed Magic," Weekes gave more clarity about the inspiration for this song:

> "Just a story, really. I wanted to write a happy sounding dark song. In this case it’s about A killer/vampire/whatever, stalking & seducing their victim. To them, the blood is magic. Keeps them young and alive forever."
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Weekes revealed that the lyric "Lonely little life" was almost going to be "Lonely little lie" in that same Twitter Q&A:

> "Was supposed to be ‘lonely little lie’, but I was still recovering from sinus surgery and couldn’t really hear my own voice or pronunciations during the recording process. Didn’t have a chance to go back and fix it, so we just left it in."
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Later in 2019, Weekes did a quick track by track review for *1981 Extended Play* and stated that the "killer/vampire/whatever" mentioned in his original Tweet was actually supposed to represent "the kind that seem to live exclusively in Hollywood" and not an actual vampire itself.

The name for this song was decided after the lyrics were written.

### Music

Weekes had talked about writing the music for this song in a track by track review:

> "I had subconsciously re-created a Louis XIV beat for this song. After it clicked and I realized what I did, I sent it to the band and they were extremely cool about letting me use it anyway!"
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In the background, something can be heard crashing to the ground before the chorus starts. Weekes explained what happened on Twitter:

> "I knocked over a glass. Decided to leave it in."
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Weekes talked about the instrumental ending to this song:

> "They’re meant to be on the album only. As a way to tie everything together. Someone just slipped up and neglected to cut it off. Oh well."
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## References

1. ↑ https://www.altpress.com/idkhow-new-song-bleed-magic-listen/
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Bf8Qhe59U
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/DallonWeekes/status/1056015099138256896
4. ↑ https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/performer/i%20dont%20know%20how%20but%20they%20found%20me/title/bleed%20magic?at=false&searchFilter=SVW&page=1
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/DallonWeekes/status/1056015913592320000
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/DallonWeekes/status/1056019187150204928
7. ↑ https://v13.net/2019/04/idkhow-tells-us-how-they-fashioned-their-1981-extended-play-exclusive-track-by-track/
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/DallonWeekes/status/1056015386653511680
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/DallonWeekes/status/1056017414754717702
10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20181112181749/https://rocksound.tv/features/read/dallon-weekes-takes-us-through-idkhows-debut-ep-1981-extended-play-track-by
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/DallonWeekes/status/1056018234070073344
12. ↑ https://twitter.com/DallonWeekes/status/1056026853754859520