This week’s Post Track Tuesday was severely delayed because I found out about something that made me mad, but that’s a good reason for me to listen to this week’s track. also, the music video is irrelevant to this post, but it IS pretty neat.
This Tuesday, I’ve decided to share FTSE’s Tidal Wave with you all. While this song (and it’s music video) may have been released on June 19th, 2013, I associate it with the fall of 2015, and my first semester of Engineering school. Since I was kind of into FTSE at the time, you may see more of their work in this feature going forward.
The chorus and general mood of this track reflected how I felt at the time; I THOUGHT I had more or less recovered from a tough bout of depression, but in hindsight, I hadn’t. I was all vocal parts in this track, and even the relationship I got into towards the end felt very temporary and fragile. Between my own insecurities and some discoveries about why he decided to date, I knew that it was more of a matter of when he’d break up with me, rather than if. I am Very Glad that I’m not 18 anymore, since it was not a fun time, lemme tell ya.
Something I really, REALLY want to point out is that the song itself also reflects tidal waves and the ocean pretty well, like how the recurring keyboard riff that starts the song goes up a run slowly and cycles back to the bottom, or the sort of cresting shape of the notes in the melody, with the final note of a phrase stretching out like the wave rolling back into the ocean. I hope this brings you the sort of peace someone might feel watching waves coming in and going out on a beach beneath a cloudy, white sky.
It depends on surface area
Whether you do, whether you don't
Climb a mountain, run a thousand miles
Grab on and hold, grab on and hold
It's a myth to behold, it's a fire in the cold
Grab on and hold, grab on and hold
It's a snake in the grass, it's a stop sign to pass
Grab on and hold, grab on and hold
This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn
This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn
This ain't no warning to run from sin
This ain't no dagger for sticking in
So let me be, so let me be
So let me be, so let me be
I'll follow someone that I can see
I'll worship someone that I can be
'Cause it depends on you and you alone
Whether you do, whether you don't
Don't believe in more than flesh and bone
Grab on and hold, grab on and hold
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
(This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn)
(This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
(This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn)
(This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
(This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn)
(This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
(This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn)
(This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn)
This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn
This ain't no hymn, this ain't no hymn
This ain't no warning to run from sin
This ain't no dagger for sticking in
So let me be, so let me be
So let me be, so let me be
I'll follow someone that I can see
I'll worship someone that I can be
Saint Saviour - I Just Can't Take The Risk - feat. Jadu Heart
I really want to reach for you
But I fear you coming closer
What you might do..
I can finally admit
It’s just not worth the risk
I want to open up to you
But I’m scared of what you’ll find
What you might say..
I would cease to exist
No it’s not worth the risk
I can finally admit
It’s just not worth the risk
I just can’t take the risk
There’s so much that I want to say
But I’ve not yet learned the words
To scare you away
Cause I can finally admit
I just can’t bear the risk
I just can’t take the risk
