WHERE TO STREAM/DOWNLOAD: Bandcamp SoundCloud Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon Live performance And available to stream pretty much everywhere else LYRICS: Verse 1: Three hundred mile journey I don’t think would bother me If I could just be with you tonight Traversing borders for you And even more I would do If I could just be with you tonight Pre-chorus 1: I hate pulling apart charged ends I know it’s hard for you too But we’ll push through time and time again Chorus: ‘Cause I’m yours And you’re mine Far apart Yet still intertwined So I’ll wait Till next time But for now You’re in wires and waves tonight Verse 2: A different paradigm So you can have all my time If I could just be with you tonight A little loss of control I’d send out all my signals If I could just be with you tonight Pre-chorus 2: But there’s no need for disconnection Just from these circumstances So we’ll push through time and time again Repeat chorus Bridge: And when you’re here The whole world disappears Finally it’s just us two So let’s stay up all night Do whatever we like Or just let me be close to you Repeat chorus Click "Read More" for more about the process behind this song. I had first thought of the phrase "wires and waves" back in late May 2018 when I was sitting outside of school, waiting for my mom to pick me up. I thought it was a rather ~poetic~ way of referring to the electronic communication that takes place during any sort of long-distance relationship, though I didn't have anything particular in mind. I just stashed the phrase away in my song journal, and it wasn't until October 30, 2018 that I started writing this song. At the time, I had really been into the song If I'm Being Honest by Dodie, which has grown to be one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite artists. The studio version of the song hadn't even been released yet, but I would listen to a video from one of her concerts over and over again. Sometimes if I discover a new song that I'm really into, I'm invigorated to make my song that has aspect(s) inspired by that original song that I particularly like. In this case, I wanted to write a "love song" (as in a song with romantic themes, not necessarily concerning love love) with a very lovely piano part, and it was from October 30 to November 20, 2018 that I wrote the piano part, the lyrics, and the melody of Wires and Waves Tonight. This song actually originally was in G major, which is oftentimes my default key signature. However, because it is my default, I wanted to avoid that trope I automatically fall into, so I decided to change it -- same as I did with Magic in the Air. I initially considered F# major, but since that is such a pain to play in, I ultimately settled on F major. The bulk of this song was written in my high school's piano lab on Tuesdays during and after meetings for the songwriting & music-making club that I had founded and was the president of. Wires and Waves Tonight I think was one of my most difficult songs to write; I remember being so frustrated with the lyrics, which friends from that club can certainly attest to bearing witness to. A lot of the lyric-writing, the verses in particular, involved me playing the piano riff over and over again and then (metaphorically) banging my head on the piano while saying "I don't know what to say!!" I just felt like I generally knew the emotions that I wanted to express, but I didn't know how to phrase them into words and organize them into a fully fleshed-out song. At the time of this song's conception, I had been in a long-distance relationship for a few months, and I wanted to write a love song dedicated to that. The phrase "wires and waves" obviously applies perfectly, and I just wanted the song to overall express the longing and emotional pain that I felt being in a LDR but those negative externalities being overshadowed by the value of the relationship. One thing that helped with the lyric writing was brainstorming words/phrases that go along with that theme of electronic communication; I still have the paper that I wrote this song on (which I shall keep forever as a precious artifact), and I had written down "signals, sending/receive, data, processing, receptor." The digital communication references that ended up in the song include:
Another interesting point in this song was the title. Obviously, the phrase "wires and waves" was integral to the song and I felt best represented the meaning of the song, but I also recognized that the word "tonight" was even more prominent, as it's emphasized in the verses and the chorus, making me think that it was more likely to be remembered by a listener. Thus, I considered the titles "(Wires and Waves) Tonight" and "Tonight: Wires and Waves," but I ultimately settled on "Wires and Waves Tonight." The relationship that this song was written about has long since ended, and it ended with a lot of pain on my part. Even though the "story" concluded in heartbreak, this song honestly doesn't make me sad at all or remind me of that relationship. When I had just been broken up with (well, the first breakup), Wires and Waves Tonight made me absolutely BAWL. However, as time has passed, I feel more removed from the situation, and so now this song more so reminds me of "nondescript LDR" rather than my specific relationship and subsequent breakup. Any memories of my past relationship that this song invokes is more so acknowledging that there was happiness, and there was sadness, but it's with the recognition that it was a separate time of my life. Ultimately, Wires and Waves Tonight is one of my favorite songs I've written. My EP sad boi hours was essentially the timeline of the relationship, as the EP goes in order of when the songs were written, i.e. the order of when those events happened; Wires and Waves Tonight is the first track on the album, and it's the happy "love" song of the album. Stay tuned for future posts about the rest of the tracks on the EP! Blog posts for sad boi hours EP:
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