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| {{Infobox Lostwave
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| |Box = BoxRed
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| |ShowBox = yes
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| |Image = Cia.png
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| |Alt_name = Coming Home / This Winter / Season at the CIA
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| |Year = c. 1984
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| |Genre =
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| |Search_started = 2020
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| |OP = datafreq
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| |Media=CIA.mp3}}
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| '''CIA''' (also known as '''"Are You Coming Home", "This Winter"''' or '''"Season At The CIA"''') is an unknown post-punk song uploaded to YouTube in 2020 by DJFormaldehyde.
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| ==Origins and Search==
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| On February 21st, 2020, user datafreq first uploaded the song to the New Wave Outpost forums, sourced from a cassette tape recorded in Canada in 1984.<ref>https://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=42844</ref>
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| DJFormaldehyde posted CIA to YouTube and the New Wave Outpost forums on July 20, 2020.<ref>https://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=43033</ref> The song was discovered on a tape made by a friend of DJFormaldehyde that included songs recorded from CFNY-FM Spirit of Radio,<ref>https://spiritofradio.ca/SongSearchAdd.asp</ref> a Canadian radio station known at the time for playing new wave, electronic, and alternative music.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q46N3IYg0Y</ref>
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| The song was likely not recorded after July 1984 because the song "You Think You're A Man" by American performance artist Divine, which was released in July 1984, was the newest song on the tape.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q46N3IYg0Y&lc=Ugy8fLb1rOtbRp6ihmt4AaABAg.9eBIl25Qaqt9eE84dacDLB</ref> The majority of the songs on the tape were British in origin, dating from 1980 to 1984.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1eg9tk0/regarding_the_cia_recording_my_friend_who_owns/</ref>
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| The search for CIA gained traction in November 2021, with the song making its way to the lostwave subreddit and being reuploaded multiple times that year.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/r0tr1t/cia_unknown_postpunk_song_recorded_in_canada/</ref> This was also the year that Alan Cross, who was a radio broadcaster at CFNY from 1986 onwards, uploaded the song to his website, broadening the search.<ref>https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/interested-in-solving-some-musical-mysteries-try-to-identify-these-songs/</ref>
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| It is assumed that CIA was aired once as part of CFNY's annual Talent Search contest. The contest airs fifty songs annually, typically broadcasting bands with zero exposure or releases.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1d5nyli/cia_an_update/</ref>
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| ==Leads==
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| === Possible ===
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| * '''Bradford Reaves: CIA Blues''':<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/18vmgjb/i_might_have_found_the_artist_who_made_the_cia/</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5fRCT1hWAw</ref> Unlikely, because Reaves' known music is in the folk rock style.
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| === Debunked ===
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| * '''4th Floor - Coming Home''': An early lead suggested that the song was by the Alternative Rock band 4th Floor, as they had a song on Discogs called "Coming Home" that was released in 1984.<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/12448615-4th-Floor-4th-Floor</ref> At the time, the album was not uploaded; however, when the cassette was converted and uploaded, this lead was disproven.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/embed/SDTrvxl8XOQ</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q46N3IYg0Y&lc=UgzVpvg3_93l-HR2MFh4AaABAg</ref>
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| * '''Zebra - CIA''':<ref>https://www.youtube.com/embed/WCHmjJ72rXY</ref>
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| * '''The Reform - CIA''': In early 2024, speculation centered on the song "CIA" by The Reform, a rock/power pop song released in 1986 by a US band.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/189yuf7/hmmmmmmmmm/</ref> This was aided by the fact that the track length corresponded to the commonly uploaded length for the lost song CIA.<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/13839352-The-Reform-CIA-Gimme-Your-Love</ref> This lead was debunked after the vinyl was digitized and the song was uploaded.<ref>https://archive.org/details/the-reform-cia</ref>
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| * '''Conditioned Response''':<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1amcyrf/conditioned_response_is_not_responsible_for_cia/</ref>
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| * '''The Switch - Coming Home''':<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1d4u0r8/cia_isnt_coming_home_by_the_switch/</ref>
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| == Lyrics ==
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| {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible" role="presentation"
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| |'''Presumed Lyrics'''
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| |'''(Verse 1)'''
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| Are you comin' home for vacation?
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| Can you leave your work behind?
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| Will someone man your battlestation?
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| Will you give them all your time?
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| We all feel the same frustration
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| And hope to God you're on our side
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| '''(Chorus)'''
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| Are you comin' home to stay?
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| Or will you spend this winter drivin' me insane?
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| Are you comin' home to stay?
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| Or will you spend the season at the CIA?
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| '''(Verse 2)'''
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| Last year you studied Russian wheatfields
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| Searched for silos you'd never find
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| And when they found out, you struck a deal
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| To bring back Levis on company time
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| But you jumpеd ship once in lsrael
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| And slipped away at thе Arab line
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| '''(Chorus)'''
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| Are you comin' home to stay?
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| Or will you spend this winter drivin' me insane?
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| Are you comin' home to stay?
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| Or will you spend the season at the CIA?
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| '''(Verse 3)'''
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| Can you paint a still life of your location?
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| Will the children wear a smile?
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| Do you believe that's liberation?
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| Or is it trimming for your file?
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| If someone deserves a commendation
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| Let's present it at his final mile
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| '''(Chorus)'''
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| Are you comin' home to stay?
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| Or will you spend this winter drivin' me insane?
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| Are you comin' home to stay?
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| Or will you spend the season at the CIA?
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| Are you comin' home to stay?
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| Or will you spend this winter drivin' me insane?
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| Are you comin' home to stay?
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| Or will you spend the season at the CIA?
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| Are you comin' home to stay?
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| Or will you spend this winter drivin' me insane?
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| Are you comin' home to stay?
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| Or will you spend the season at the CIA?
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| '''(Outro)'''
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| Are you coming?
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| Are you coming home?
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| ==References==
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| * [https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/189yuf7/comment/kdc3fa1/ User Richfromhell discussing the tape]
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| * [https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/interested-in-solving-some-musical-mysteries-try-to-identify-these-songs/ Alan Cross' Post about CIA]
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| * [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11iWE8IWAEs5reZGiAtPqxHzukVy32QM-_cA0xbb5k2o/edit?gid=923414406#gid=923414406 CIA Leads Spreadsheet]
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| [[Category:Unidentified]]
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| [[Category:Full song available]]
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| <references />
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| [[Category:Post punk]]
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