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Numbers is a clever play on identity and purpose in a cruel world. The name, "Numbers," refers both to the things that leave us feeling numb and the callous ways people are often reduced to faceless, nameless figures.
As the video for "Numbers" unfolds, a seductive woman slips into a red dress and prowls the city streets at night, searching for a man she's seen in a photograph. Along the way she blows smoke dismissively into the face of a street preacher, tosses a pack of lit matches onto a begging homeless man, offers only a glance to a injured woman sobbing on a park bench, and just stares, unblinking at a man choking at a restaurant.
"I feel numb," Daughter frontwoman Elena Tonra sings. "I feel numb in this kingdom."
"'Numbers' was written in the spring of 2014 in London, based on a scribbled poem I had written at the end of summer in 2013," Tonra reports. "The song describes a lack of emotional connection towards other people — how it feels to not feel anything at all."
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