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“chemtrails” is the thirteenth track of Lizzy McAlpine's second studio album "five seconds flat". Trickling by with steady clicks of a piano, delineates McAlpine’s devastating letter to her father, who died a couple of years ago. He didn’t get to see Lizzy’s first album "Give Me A Minute" be released, where he also has a song about him (track thirteen “Headstones & Land Mines”). The outro of the song contains the audio of a video recording her father took.
Sonically, the song is very stripped back, consisting mainly of Lizzy’s vocals and a piano. This helps drive the sentiments of sadness and regret that run through the lyrics.
The “chemtrails” named in the song, as well as other words or phrases mainly in the verses, serve as a metaphor. On the one hand, they can be interpreted as seeing the consequence of something but not the cause. She still feels the sadness and emptiness caused by her father’s loss, even if this event is in the past. Conversely, this could also be taken as the singer feeling like she’s missed out on something big, and she’s only there for the aftermath. She didn’t appreciate all the time she had with her father, or so she thinks, and she’s missed out on so many opportunities and so many experiences she could’ve lived with him, and now she’s stuck living in the aftermath of the event thinking how things would be if she had done something different.
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