Null Paradox | Strange Relationship

In our song Strange Relationship, Annabelle is beginning to understand her relationship with The Bully.  They’re both tap-dancing around their growing realization that they’re attraction goes beyond their mutual employment by Seth.

Love is in the cards, but it’s not romantic love–it’s something more unreal.  Neither of them can put their finger on it yet, but Annabelle is convinced that she’s pulling on a thread that could lead to a revelation.

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Vocals (Annabelle)~Wilted August
Backing vocals~Holly Turton
Bass, keyboards, guitars~Tom Libertiny
Horns~William Haubrich Brass Studio
Drums~Nate Barnes

 

Music and lyrics by Tom Libertiny
Produced by Tom Libertiny
Mixed and mastered by Luis “Cancion” Calderon

 

Cover models~Wilted August and Zach Ferrin
Photography~Tom Libertiny
Illustration~Ana Cruz

 

Lyrics

We met in the shadows, under candle lights
Whispers in the darkness, secrets in the night
You were like a phantom, drifting through my mind
Caught up in your mystery, a love I couldn’t find

We talk on the edge of a knife
Between danger and surprise
In this twisted web we weave
I lose you then you find me

(chorus)

It’s a strange relationship
In the silence, in the grip
Of a love that’s so unreal
Can’t escape the way I feel

Haunted by your presence, like a ghost in my soul
Every time I glance at you, I’m closer to my goal
You’re the contradiction that I can’t define
An enigmatic disaster, a dream that’s so unkind

We walk on the edge of the knife
Between danger and surprise
In this twisted web we weave
I lose you then you find me

(chorus)

It’s a strange relationship
In the silence, in the grip
Of a love that’s so unreal
Can’t escape the way I feel

Like a storm, you come and go
Pull me in and let me go
In this game we play so well
Heaven’s close, but we touch hell

(chorus)

It’s a strange relationship
In the silence, in the grip
Of a love that’s so unreal
Can’t escape the way I feel

In the end, we’re intertwined
Two lost souls in borrowed time
In this strange relationship
I’m yours to lose, you’re mine to miss

It’s a strange relationship
In the silence, in the grip
Of a love that’s so unreal
Can’t escape the way I feel

Like a storm, you come and go
Pull me in and let me go
In this game we play so well
Heaven’s close, but we touch hell

 

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Annabelle |  Zero

Like most Null Paradox characters, Annabelle lives in the same multiverse.

Physicists describe the multiverse as an object that contains all possible universes. At its core, the Null Paradox multiverse is the same, but how we navigate the infinite permutations of each universe within the multiverse is different.

In Null Paradox, we perceive life as a series of tiny hops from one universe to another stitched together to create the life they experience. This is facilitated by a machine briefly described in the first book (Gertrude & Grace), which plays a more significant role in the upcoming second book (Victoria & Seth).

 

Here’s the tricky part | Zero, One, and Two

The Gertrude, Grace, Victoria, and Seth that you read about are technically the primary ones. “Zero” is appended to their names to reduce confusion, as in Victoria Zero. The adjacent universe has a Victoria One. And so on, for all of them.

But Annabelle is different.  Her home universe is currently classified as “unknown.”