Aviators - Can You Hear It? (Lovecraft Song | Alternative Rock)

Listen to this song on my new album, Dreams of the Deep!

Instrumentals, Vocals, and MIDI (all free!):

Thanks to @ABluSkittle for some of his most beautifully foreboding artwork yet!

Back to Dreams of the Deep for a moment before we move on to new content! There's a still a few I haven't shared on the channel yet and this one definitely needed the YouTube treatment. "Can You Hear It" describes a rather rapid onset of insanity from the faint scratches in the walls and the dark history of a new heir's ancestral home. Based heavily on H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls". (quick tip: all of his stories are available for free online thanks to expired copyrights)

Lyrics:
Born of the darkness
From granted eyes beyond
Dreams of the deep mist
They hide a scratching song
There's a primal fear
That death is near
Writhing now in wait
Am I past the veil
Consciousness failing
I hear a wicked fate

Can you hear it?
Can you hear it?
The tolls of madness ringing
Do you fear it?
Do you fear it?
An ancient choir is singing
All consuming
Calling to me
In a dream, it's a thorn I can't dig out
Can't you hear it too?
If you listen close now

Lulled to the madness
I have seen what I can't know
Glimpsed at a nightmare
To fester and to grow
In this empty home
Of flesh and bone
A presence left unseen
Laying awake in bed
My hollowed head will
Call back through the dream

I feel it humming deep inside the walls
The dark vibrations
Whispered acts unspeakable, horrible, reachable, audible
I'm pressured to awaken my own sight
To generations
Ancient ones malevolent, reckoning, pestilent, beckoning

[XaviusNight]

[Eldritch monster reaches through the hole in the walls of reality to fish out a mortal]
[Cat goes after the wiggly waving thing]
[Eldritch monster nopes out because it's done with getting appendages nipped off every time it tries this shit]

[deadlydingus]

Ah yes. The Tom and Jerry episode where Jerry summons an ancient Lovecraftian god.

[augustmullins]

Oh what a lovely cat. I hope Lovecraft named him something nice

[AceTaxiaGaming]

Are we gonna talk about how gorgeous that art is?

[Yes-qvnr]

The King Himself has returned to give us his majestic singing voice

[doublem]

I didn't know this song was inspired by "Rats in the Walls", and even if it isn't, it still beautifully shows a slow, yet persistent descent into madness until the song in the third act slips off the proverbial edge to the realisation of the lovecraftean reality hidden by the veneer of ignorance.

Edit: I forgot to add how the song mirrors how lovecrafean horror should develop, which might have been readable from my comment.

[dawnpolaris]

Found Aviator recently and I must say I'm disappointed in myself for not finding them sooner

[antaresthirdeldenlord]

Bro, Jt Music, Stupendium and Aviators all uploaded new songs in two days. I am beyond happy.

[zaidiemartinez]

The cat and ominous hole in the wall makes me think this is inspired by The Rats In The Walls? I could be thinking of the wrong story though, I would need to give it a re-read.

[johnj.spurgin]

When that beat hits, and you can hear the stars above singing along.

It's so easy to forget how powerful music is.
Oh how small we are, but even the smallest flower can be beautiful.

[lexsamreeth]

"The rats in the walls...the darkness behind the door...the ticking of the unseen trap...oh, the fear of that which we cannot investigate...it is the most delicious of all the terrors I have tasted."
-Cultist of Shann'Buu, from the World of Soma

[blackraptor]

>called "Can you hear it"
>cat shadow
> inspires by Lovecraft
Oh fuck no don't say it!

[dragonlord]

When we hear this song we immediately imagine a person who hears some otherworldly sound and goes mad as a result. But that's not necessarily true. Here's the funny thing, this song could just as easily be from the perspective of an "intelligent" (relatively speaking) rat living in the walls of a busy household. It seems crazy until you start to change the perspective. The scratching song is quite literally the house cat scratching at some furniture and giving the rat a primal fear of death lying in wait. The "tolls of madness ringing" is just the doorbell or the T.V in the living room, the rat is smart enough to know that those sounds mean *something* but it isn't smart enough to piece it together. The "ancient choir" is the loud voices of the people living in the house, occasionally "calling to me" as the people living in the house make loud noises when it shows itself. All of this stimulation causes the rat to even "dream" about the same nightmares as its tiny, animal mind tries to comprehend something it can't fully process but can't ignore either. Sometimes, since the rat is in the walls/floor of the house it sometimes gets scared awake by the kids at night as they "whisper" whilst sneaking out but since the rat can't comprehend human speech its animal mind thinks of their words as "Unspeakable acts from Ancient Ones".

I think that's the beauty of this song, if you want to you can imagine it as some eldritch abomination uncaringly torturing a poor man OR you can imagine it as as some eldritch humans uncaringly torturing a poor rat.

[tiagocf]

Doctor let me try to explain from where Im coming from, first I always had a great hearing, really, my friends used to say that if they droped a coin across the street I would hear and come running to pick it... anyway, as a musician and conductor of an entire orchestra it sure came handy for me in my day to day life.
The downside of being able to hear a needle fall a mile away is that sleeping can be very hard, and no nights where harder than the ones with a full moon. As you might be aware, the woods outside our city have wolfs in them and on every full moon night they howl and bark, some people even say it is like music.... eh he as a musician, I can say those that believe it wouldnt know music even if I hit them with a violin... Sorry, I got distracted, I havent got much sleep lately. The point is, their howling kept me awake at night, from the time the moon rises to the time it settles beyond the horizon. This has happened since I was born, and no matter how much soundproofing I did, I would still lay awake cursing them.

The change and the reason Im here is that a year ago, in a fit of rage or lack of sleep I went to my window and started conducting them like I do with my orchestra, as you are aware, wolfs arent musicians, nor can see an idiot waving a stick right in the middle of a city, but I kept somehow hopping that I could make their howls into music so I could finally sleep with a lullaby. I didnt know what I expected, but for my moves to be answered by the clear note of a bass in the distance wasnt it. I froze for a moment and them pointed in the direction of where the trumpets would be and sure enough, I heard the their sound as clear as the night was dark... I should have stopped but I didnt, I conducted one piece after another, sometimes the notes where clear, other times the rustling of the leaves made the percussion and the howl of the wolves played the woodwind section, I was hypnotized by this orchestra played by the world around me, so much that I didnt notice... I Couldnt have imagined...

I started hearing it during the day too but just small parts of the musics I conducted for them, and mostly out of order. Anyway, the moment I waved my arms all the random bits stopped in anticipation, and as I conducted my orchestra of musicians, this one of nature would follow suit, this continued for an entire year, until I noticed a very important thing, whatever they played happened...
We practiced "fires of creation" by von Bingen for an entire week before the giant forest fire in Australia, I had just teached them "Stella celi", a piece about the black plague, a day before the very first covid patient was reported. For every music that I played there was a response, big or small depending on how much time they had playing musics with that motive. I broke my baton the day I realized that and almost broke my fingers so I couldnt hold a new one, but couldnt do it, anyway I vowed to never conduct again.

Whatever it was, it didnt like it, they started playing the funeral march a month ago and its getting louder every day, so please doctor tell me, please tell me I am crazy, and that scared face you have isnt because you started to hear it too...

[vorpal_void]

In these difficult days, we rarely have the privilege of enjoying new music inspired by Lovecraft's work and made by a professional. Amazing, thank you.

[SollidnitrogeN]

I don't think it was intentional, but having the silhouette of a cat as a focal point in the art of your *Lovecraft inspired* song is an... interesting choice.

[Lamenter_A.G.K.T]

Aviators: makes new love craft inspired song. me: aw yes a fine addition to my collection!

[Lehanna]

Song: About one of Lovecraft's best stories

Comments: Hurrdurr cat name

[mikemcbee]

It's mildly disturbing how easily this song gets stuck in my head

[squipycheetah]

I cannot express how much I absolutely adore this song. Probably my fav of all time.