Foxes In Boxes (formerly known as Continuous Motion) is a formerly unidentified R&B song by late Omani-British musician Lamya, released in 2004. It was in verification needed for over a year prior to being solved.
Search History
The song first appeared in a GapBody CD listing from March 2004[1], on the third album listing (plays at 30:04)[2]. The CD listing was posted on April 7th, 2021, by user Michael Bise to a blog dedicated to archiving Gap in-store playlists. The song wasn't credited with an artist, so it remained unidentified.
On May 17th, 2023, user Ziro reuploaded the song onto Youtube[3], for further possible identification.
Only ten days later, on May 27th, 2023, an ASCAP repertory for the song was found by a deleted Discord user, along with Lamya's MySpace account[4], both showing she had a song called Foxes In Boxes. A cross-check shows that she sounds identical to the song and both songs come from 2004.
The MySpace page shows that the song is ~30 seconds shorter, so the lead was doubted at first. But it was discovered that the ASCAP repertory showed two different versions. GapBody also played another Lamya song the following month.
Lamya was unfortunately unable to be contacted, as she passed away on January 8th, 2009[5] and the only way it would’ve been confirmed that the song was indeed hers is to contact Carrington Daren Micheal, the songwriter.
On June 19th, 2024, after over a year of being considered nearly solved, the song was fully identified by Discord user Lljones29 as Foxes In Boxes by Lamya after they managed to contact Carrington, who confirmed the song was the same. This post was noticed on April 25th, 2025.
Lyrics
By letting my desire, the climb to decline
Is just one slow continuous motion
Dangling in between make way to the extreme
For the accidental, for the conventional miracle
Someone who stands for something else
By reason of association
Never apply to message to self
Implied behind the implication
Someone who stands for something else
By reason of association
No thought to hear the message applied
To find behind the implication
Foxes in boxes, fear is my sphere
Hunting and hiding digressing each year
Weeping and laughing, I'm gasping for air
Stuck like an oyster, it's so unfair
Someone who stands for something else
By reason of association
Never apply to message to self
Implied behind the implication
Someone who stands for something else
By reason of association
No thought to hear the message applied
To find behind the implication
Words in your hair, like voices underwater
There's no escaping the destiny of repetition
Between what you said and what you wanted
Couldn't, shouldn't, didn't
I really wanted to say you became
Someone who stands for something else
By reason of association
Never apply to message to self
Implied behind the implication
Someone who stands for something else
By reason of association
No thought to hear the message applied
To find behind the implication
Foxes in boxes, fear is my sphere
Hunting and hiding digressing each year
Weeping and laughing, I'm gasping for air
Repressed like a jester with costume contraries
It's so unfair
Someone who stands for something else
By reason of association
Never apply to message to self
Implied behind the implication
Someone who stands for something else
By reason of association
No thought to hear the message applied
To find behind the implication
Someone who stands for something else
Someone who stands for something else
Someone who stands for something else
By reason of association
Gallery
References
- ↑ https://gapplaylists.blogspot.com/2021/04/2004-gap-playlists.html
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/gap-march-2004-muzak-cd/03+Gap+2004+3+March+Body+Track+3.mp3
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgjOV2lWGo0&list=PLXJRgSwP1uIDrw3EidhMsr0PTUC3AnsGi&index=4
- ↑ https://myspace.com/lamya1
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamya.