At the age of five, Emileigh Rohn began taking piano lessons from her church organist, Mildred Benson, and eventually began singing solos in church. By the age of 13 she received a Casiotone keyboard and began experimenting with electronic music. In her final year of high school she joined an experimental/industrial performance art group called Inter Animi.
In the fall of 1997, while studying molecular biology in Detroit, Rohn joined Calvin P. Simmons in his project Dragon Tears Descending (DTD) as a keyboardist doing performances and supporting other bands. Rohn then left DTD and formed her own project Electrophoretic Transfer in 1998.
Chiasm began in 1998 when Rohn began to entirely produce her own music with her first demo CD named "Embryonic" completed in October. Her song "Bouncing Baby Clones" was featured on a Detroit Electronica compilation CD, D[elEcTROnIc]T, in the spring of 1999. By March 2001, Rohn released her debut album, Disorder on COP International.
Following Disorder, the track "Isolated" was released on the PC Game, "Vampire-The Masqurerade-Bloodlines" as well as used in an episode of the CBS series "Navy:NCIS" in 2003 coinciding with the release of the remix album with labelmate Threat Level 5 titled "Divided We Fall: The Remix Collection". The second full-length solo album, "Relapse" was released in 2005, also on COP.
Chiasm released a virtual single, "Prefrontal EP", exclusively on iTunes in 2006 through COP International. Her new full-length album, titled "REFORM", was released in September 2008! "REFORM" CDs are now available! Be sure to check out the new Facebook page, and keep in touch with her on Myspace where new remixes and random older tracks are also posted for streaming!
Emileigh is currently working on new material, an album called "11:11" and remixes/collaborations with other artists.
For more information, see her web site, www.chiasm.org
Hideaway
Chiasm Lyrics
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A simple place for us to hide away
In the night i hear a noise in the fight
That leads me here again searching today and i can't throw it away
My hideaway
I can see the lies that you portray
I can see them hide from you anyway
The lyrics to Chiasm's song Hideaway depict a struggle to find a safe and peaceful space away from the chaos of the world. The opening lines "Know now / we need to find somehow / A simple place for us to hide away" suggest that the singer is certain about the need for an escape, but unsure about where to find it. The repetition of "hideaway" throughout the song reinforces the idea of finding a retreat from reality.
The next set of lines "In the night i hear a noise in the fight / That leads me here again searching today and i can't throw it away" suggest that the singer is constantly searching for shelter from the strife of life, but is unable to let go of the need to keep looking. The final lines "I can see the lies that you portray / I can see them hide from you anyway" may suggest that the singer has become disillusioned with the outside world, but is still able to see through facades and deceptions.
Overall, the lyrics to Hideaway express a longing for a safe and quiet haven, an ongoing search for that retreat, and a feeling of separation from and distrust of the outside world.
Line by Line Meaning
Know now/ we need to find somehow
We must realize that we need to find a way
A simple place for us to hide away
We need a straightforward and undemanding place to retreat
In the night i hear a noise in the fight
Amidst emotional struggle, I hear a sound in the darkness
That leads me here again searching today and i can't throw it away
It brings me back to this point, searching for a solution, but I cannot get rid of it completely
My hideaway
My place of refuge
I can see the lies that you portray
I can discern the falsehoods that you present
I can see them hide from you anyway
Regardless, they remain hidden from you
Contributed by Matthew O. Suggest a correction in the comments below.