Hard To Say

from Face Tapes by Hunter Ellis

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Hard to Say was written just before I came down with Covid, and recorded mostly during my recovery. However, it’s not about Covid at all. It’s about what happens when the veil of reality becomes thinner than we’re used to, and how that can be scary and unfamiliar. But that what is behind the scenes, so to speak, is all encompassing and timeless and actually rather comforting. It’s ok to be scared, because it won’t last forever.

Musically the song is the closest I’ve come to writing a pop song. Structurally it’s supposed to resemble a psychedelic experience I suppose, such that it starts out somewhere familiar, heightens that feeling, breaks it down into something that you haven’t quite felt before, then takes you back to where you started. Of course, where you started now sounds quite different because of what you’ve just been through. It is more triumphant, feels more comfortable, and leaves you warm inside.

It is really representative of most traumatic/heightened/extra exciting experiences, not just psychedelics.

lyrics

When you know you don't know
You're ok

Roam the highways
Of the mind

You are ok

It has always been

It will always
Be you are me
I am the a
You are the z

Remember
What you never knew
Remove the mantle
I’ll be ok

You’ll be ok

Get back
What was never lost
Remove the mantle
We will be ok

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from Face Tapes, released January 8, 2021

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