Beyond

Album: Random Access Memories (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This Balearic disco chiller is sung by West Coast soft-rock songwriter Paul Williams (David Bowie, the Carpenters, the Muppets). His lyrics are about the existential world beyond oceans and mountains. "It is a cosmic super song with very poetic lyrics and very pure," Daft Punk told French publication Le Nouvel Observateur. We talked a lot with Paul Williams of the direction of this album, and it was worth it to put words to our ideas."

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