![]() That lyric always kicks me in the butt in the right way. "much too tired to try, much too stubborn to quit." it was a lot of fun to make those odd little connections. so for this song, i wanted to include as many as i can. there's a familiarity i suppose that i like when in contrast with (hopefully) new ideas. I'm not sure why, but i generally tend to like the use of idioms in songs. "a watched kettle never boils, a watched tree never grows" I liked the idea of expressing patience (and impatience) through a lot of common expressions, like: it's a virtue after all, but just not my favorite one.) this song is obviously very much about time. as i mentioned, are all about me venting my impatience, while pretending that i appreciate the importance of patience. bells turn into wurlitzer turns into banjo, turns into several other types of keyboard sounds. Musically, i liked the idea of taking some of those descending sparkly melodies and have different instruments take turns playing them. ![]() in most cases, i have a very clear picture of how i want a song to end up and exactly what i want it to say, so i really enjoyed a less pressured approach for this one. Once i decided this piece of music belongs on this ep, i decided to approach this song without any specific intentions aside from having a lot of fun playing around further with it, keeping it in the spirit in which it was written. yearbook felt like a perfect fit for this sort of exploration. so i kept this song on the back burner until it made sense within one of my projects. usually those try-out-my-new-toy recordings don't turn into anything more than a bit of fun, but i always liked these particular little odd melodies. so while on tour way back when, i spent an evening in my hotel room messing around with my new gadget. a while back i got a new keyboard, and as is tradition with each new instrument i buy, i write something and play around with recording it with no aim, aside from seeing what i'm capable of doing with this thing. Musically, a lot of this song's shape and heart was written several years before this song became a song, in a hotel of all places. so i wrote this song to remind me to cool it. so even though the whole idea of yearbook was born in the spirit of impatience, making the gap between writing, recording and releasing disappear, i was still impatient with the whole thing. i would rush, rush, rush to meet the monthly deadlines and when i finally hit the finish line, as soon as each song left my hands, i'd have to do more waiting. in the middle of yearbook, that concept was at constant play in my head. The opening lyric, "hurry, hurry up and wait" is the heart of this song. no matter how hard i try, i am just not a fan of waiting for things. I think i've proclaimed this before, but (unfortunately for those closest to me) i am a very impatient person. ![]() Mali calls these 'statement songs'."hit or miss" is the middle track on the july ep ( itunes) in the yearbook series. The entire album Caution to the Wind features hard-hitting songs that explore various important topics and gets people to think about more than just the song. We will always be in some state of limbo,” Mali quips. “Who knows, maybe in another five months it would seem like a song about the economic recession. Though the song was written about conflicts and what it would be to get caught in one, the lyrics were open-ended enough that if you hear Age of Limbo now, it would seem to be about the coronavirus pandemic. We’re currently fighting a battle to get back all that we took for granted. The protests, the riots and and now the lockdown. I drew from experiences we’ve had living through one of the most disruptive periods of history and somehow always being hopeful that it will come to an end. It made me think about what it must feel like to wake up every morning to the sound of machine guns and bombs and worry about even surviving till the end of the day. A year ago, I watched this episode of Without Borders in Israel and this is the exact scene which inspired the song. It does relate very well to this war we’re waging against this coronavirus and the state of shock we’re all in, but it was written about a different war altogether. ![]() Some of you might be wondering if I wrote Age of Limbo about the current lockdown, but the answer is no.
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