I wish I could go into depth on this backstory but it’s pretty personal to a good friend of mine. I don’t know why I’ve been hanging so much on these tragic love stories. I know there are good moments in a relationship. I experience them all the time. For some reason, when I try to write them out, they aren’t as interesting to hear in a song.
The song sounded a bit like that delirious moment between the hours of 2am and 5am. “Getting through the night” is a pretty common metaphor for dealing with an issue so it made for a good setting for a couple to be going through it together. Sometimes things look O.K. on the outside when, really, there is chaos within. Kara and I have this thing we say. “Just keep talking”. It’s kind of another way of saying, “Don’t let the sun go down on your anger.” If something isn’t resolved between us, we try not to let anything keep us from working through it. Not even sleep.
So, here they are, lying next to each other. They’ve been through it and they are really still in the middle of it, but at least they are not scared anymore. There is hope because they know the sun in coming but they just can’t see it yet. It is still dark but at least it’s the dark of the morning and not the night.
In Your Room
Listen Now:
Haunted by
“Am I what I can’t provide”
Painted white
But the colors bleed inside
Plans to go
But that’s when I thought you didn’t mind
The worst is over now
Or so they say
We shut the monster out
For today
I could fall in between the band
Or should I make my escape again
I know the sunlight is coming soon
In your room
Reach for mine
I don’t want the upper hand
Too late now
I can’t really change my name again
You beg to me wait up with you
We bury this beneath the moon
Am I talking crazy?
Will this day begin?
I would be the first to comment if I had anything to say but I need to listen a few more times to be able to say anything worthwhile. Maybe I’ll sleep on it.
I like the story and the imagery of a couple working through an issue until the “sunlight” (resolution) comes. It’s 4 a.m., and you are almost delirious because you are so tired, which is a similar feeling to working through those reoccurring conflicts. You almost feel like you are sleep deprived (even if you aren’t) after you’ve had the same argument for the 100th time.
My heart breaks for the couple in the song, but it sounds like they are committed to working it out, even if it means giving up on what they had hoped their relationship would be. That is actually one of the best things I learned during my first year of marriage…don’t create a problem that doesn’t exist only because you expected things to be different. Let go of your own plan for your life, and be open to making a new life together.
Love the guitar hook on this one, too. It is funny because this song almost makes me feel sleepy, like it really is 4 a.m. I’m not sure if that is a compliment or a criticism. Either way, I like this as a stand alone story-telling piece of art. Don’t know if I would necessarily want it on a CD with your other stuff.
P.S. I’m glad we just keep talking.
Very good guitar in this song. It’s a little too slow, but I can hear the message well. I never wish to go to bed angry, but try for a compromise. It is not always the case, where you can do this and must live with the animosity, however, in your case, that’s another song…LOL! On a lighter note, this is a nice song and the guitar compliments it well. This would go well on a CD full of contemplating and nostalgic songs, so I would say that is is just “OK”, to me.
Sometimes it’s difficult for me to post a comment as soon as you reveal the song. It’s as if I need a few days to really “chew on it”. I’m glad I let this one sit. I enjoy hearing a song with a message about addressing issues before going to bed. You could teach society a lot about that concept! Lol. I agree with Carlos that it is a little slow…kinda ironic that it’s about staying up, but the song is composed in a way that is relaxing and restful. Oh, one last thing, I REALLY like the lyrics, especially the first stanza. Okay, I’m done. Thanks!
I agree with Carlos on this one as well. It’s nice, and it’s darn better than anything I could write, but it’s not high on my list. I’m sure this is right up some people’s alley, though.
This has to be one of my favorites so far. Even as we go through life and different friendships and relationships come and go throughout our lives, so many times they end because we do let the sun go down when we are angry, choose the easier road of not doing anything about working things out with people, when in reality if we were to buck up and dare to travel down the road that looks a bit scary at first, we would see that indeed, the sunlight is coming, and the end result was worth the pain and difficulty of working through problems.
Keep doing work my friend.
I like this one a whole lot. Those open chords are the reason I love acoustic guitars.
Reminds me too much of “Mixtape”.