distance (the backlog sessions)

Ever since the last mostly non-vaporwave nonamelegend album (2014), I've written songs and learned covers that were always meant to see the light of day, but never did due to a) life being busy and b) me being a perfectionist who is super reluctant to release anything that's not up to the standards of my inspirations. So, in order to finally get this material out there (because my life hasn't gotten any less busy haha), I'm simply recording a performance of each song on my phone, no fancy mics, in one take, and releasing it here on YouTube as "the backlog sessions". Hopefully the low resolution can get everyone nostalgic for the "golden era of YouTube" or something, idk.

Just me, live and acoustic. 👊😎

About this track:

Every bedroom musician had a quarantine song, and this was mine. Originally meant to be the title track of a 2020 EP, "distance" relates the isolation, trepidation, and truth-searching of the pandemic (and the BS of the election year) to one of the worst stretches of a drive I've ever had to make - I-49 through Louisiana, between Baton Rouge and Shreveport, in the middle of the night. This, after starting the drive in Alabama and ultimately ending in north Texas at 3 am.

Lyrics:

How far behind is Baton Rouge?
How close are we to home?
Have we found the narrow road?
Or is it nothing more than Rome?
Are we closer to a cure?
Does this thing exist at all?
Feels like I can't trust a soul
That's not within these walls

Despite the miles we've driven
The view seems not to change
The same restaurants and houses
Just subtly rearranged
Cold civil war is thawing
But not fast enough to see
Praying I can get us home
If I only just believe

More to come! Deo Gratias.

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