#rainbow signs

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2021-11-28 Post-match

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2021-06-23

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2021-06-23 Post-match interview

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*Rainbow signs is my current favorite song, this interview with Aaron Weiss helps explain why*

You mentioned wanting to have at least some small measure of hope on the record. The last song, “Rainbow Signs,” expresses some of that, which is obviously also a reference to Noah and the flood. Can you talk about what it was like creating that song and what you wanted to end the album on? That’s a good question. The original ending of the song was that big heavy part that ends with this feeling of Judgment Day, Armageddon and Riders of the Apocalypse imagery, the Revelation imagery, and then I tried to imagine what happens after that in just a few lines. It’s not very thorough, that was my intention, but it didn’t sit well with me. The song ended with this big crash and feedback, and on this note of the Judgment Day and what happens after Judgment Day. It really rubbed me the wrong way. I was very sensitive to how this album ends, as I typically am. It almost doesn’t matter what you say on the whole album if you end it on a sour or down note. It aggregates everything that was said previously. It trumps all that, and you’re ending on a sad note. Or on the contrary, if you say all this really sad stuff and then you end on a hopeful note, in a sense you’re transcending all that sorrow with the hope. In this case, I didn’t feel happy ending on this Armageddon, judgment of God note, but I also didn’t feel qualified to try to speak anything more on the love of God, or hope of heaven or resurrection – anything that was universally more hopeful. The only thing that felt right was to start singing about my dad and a personal joke I had with him. To me, it’s a very intimate and very personal moment that is the most open I’ve ever felt on an album, but in a way that nobody else is going to understand. Not even my wife will understand. My dad died a couple years ago and he’s the only person that would get what I’m saying, so in a sense it’s like an ending for nobody at all. It was just me and my dad, and that felt like something I was qualified to write about. A lot of this other stuff, writing about God, or love or judgment, it feels pretty deeply out of my league, pretty thoroughly a point of absolute ignorance for me. To try and write about God and say anything seems almost preposterous at this point, as if I speak from a point of knowledge. Of course I can share my experiences and my faith, but I can’t tell people what’s true when I don’t know what’s true. But I can sing about my relationship with my dad with some conviction and some sense of knowledge because it’s not a thing that I know, like a proposition or a fact, it’s just a relationship that I experienced and I still experience. So there was something a little bit more appropriate to me about closing the album with that sentiment.