01. days \\ darker

3 weeks ago by @knobbyneggins815

Liner Notes

1st track for FAWM '25! Excited to get out there with y'all and get another project done and dusted!

Last year after my first FAWM I hunkered down and decided to write an album trilogy about Nostalgia, Regret, and Loss, alongside the seasons I release them in. For 50/90 I completed my summer album (Memory Ln.) and my Autumn Album (One Step Forward & The Quiet Drive Back), and that leaves me with one final piece: the sad, mopey, introspective Winter album. My apologies for the upcoming month if I get too whingy.

I want this project to be about grief and trauma, love and loss, and moving through it all. This song in particular is just a sort of thesis statement for the whole thing and I hope it functions well as an opener. It's always hard to start things. Or end them. Or do any of the middle parts.

Anyways, this is also a sister song to a track called "waves // deeper" off of the first album in this trilogy, Memory Ln. There are a lot of references back and forth and wholesale lines from other songs in the trilogy and I just assume that's how this is going to be for the rest of the project, so I hope it doesn't get too "Snake Eating It's Own Tail"-y.

The other track is here:
https://soundcloud.com/brandon-brooks-746737217/waves-deeper

I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's work this month! Excited to be back! I'm also going to try to put tags on my songs this year, despite being one of those people who hates labeling anything lol

#indie #singer #singersongwriter #album #grief

Lyrics

Verse:
Here come the waves
Pulling us deeper,
Out from the shore
And into abyss.

The rest of our days
Dancing in darkness
With phantom limb.
(Days Darker)

No one will say
It ever gets easy.
You learn to move on
With a hole in your life.

It never lets go,
It just gets familiar,
Like bumps in the night.

Pre-Chorus:
For all the walls that we built
And the calls we ignored,
Conversations we could have had
That we can't anymore,

We're the effect and the cause
Of the sickness and the cure,
So what is this for?

Chorus:
These are the nights that I remember
In late December
When I'm stuck in my head.

(Deeper than the waves that pulled me down)

I know these thoughts are gonna kill me,
The way they fill me,
With a deep, dark dread.

(Darker than the days underground)

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