EIGHT Days till the release of our new album \u201cMountain\u201d. Today I\u2019m going to break down \u201cWade in the Darkness\u201d from the album.<\/p>\n
After the good fortune of landing Sleeping With Lions on Animal Kingdom, I had started to really focus on cinematic themes. I had always written visually, and anything that I write I \u201csee\u201d in my head before and during the writing process. That keeps any lyrics from showing up in the songs that are generic or not connected personally to me. For about a week I re-emersed myself into a few of the shows I had watched that really impacted my writing in the last ten years. Carnivale and Deadwood from HBO, Heat, Sexy Beast, Unforgiven, some classic westerns. One theme that I kept coming back to was how we suffer things or go through things in our past that we try to leave behind, and disconnect from. Could be almost anything, and not always super negative, but sometimes when it\u2019s something that was very emotional for us as humans we don\u2019t really want to visit that place in our minds and relive through something with that kind of weight.
\n\u201cWade in the Darkness\u201d is about entering those areas in our mind where those memories lie, and how those things in our past affect our future and our decisions. I wanted the song to stand on it\u2019s own with drums, to have an eerie slide guitar in it, and be somewhat of a dark Daniel Lanois feel. We had pitched it to \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d, and were very close to a license with it but didn\u2019t happen. I have a feeling it still might land in something this year. One of my favorite off the album for the feel. In my mind, visually the narrator was walking down a flight of steps into the darkness to deal with what he had left behind. I hope you enjoy it when you hear the song.<\/p>\n
Wade in the Darkness
\nThey say there are some things we never leave too far behind
\nTraces of faces, places in the back of our mind<\/p>\n
Wade in the darkness, away from the light, and pray that we just make it out alive<\/p>\n
Banded together, the fears that burn in your chest
\nHaunted by dreams that never seem to let you rest<\/p>\n
Wade in the darkness, away from the light, pray that we can make it out alive<\/p>\n
I hear you calling, I still hear you calling\u2026.
\nthrough the echo\u2019s of this rain, that never stops falling,
\nthat never stops falling<\/p>\n
Wade in the darkness, away from the light, and pray that somehow we make it out alive
\nWade in the darkness, away from the light, and pray that somehow we make it out alive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EIGHT Days till the release of our new album \u201cMountain\u201d. Today I\u2019m going to break down \u201cWade in the Darkness\u201d from the album. After the good fortune of landing Sleeping With Lions on Animal Kingdom, I had started to really … Continue reading