About Unsung Songs:

Maybe I’m oversimplifying, but it feels like there were two kinds of people on November 9, 2016: those who woke up feeling beaten down, sad, and angry, and those who woke up feeling super excited about their new racist President. I stepped over the open dishwasher and walked over to my recording setup in the nook of the tiny kitchen in my dilapidated apartment (probably the same room that Bieber keeps his studio) and I recorded this song about things going back and forth. All of the vocals from that morning are still in this song. We recorded the guitar solo later – asking our good friend Lewi Longmire to do us the honor. He’s a great guitarist, but we asked him to approach the beginning of the solo as though he hadn’t found his sea legs yet, like he was a beginner at life. As the solo progresses he starts to pick up steam, to stride, and eventually to come off the rails. The moral of that story? We love Lewi Longmire. -Tim Perry

We took a lot of care in building the arc of this song. It encompasses the cycle between this reflective, contemplative state into a furious rush of activity, and back again. I know Tim wrote it with this political theme in mind, but in working on it, it became a sort of meta song for me…all the insecurity/doubt/confusion/inspiration/irrational rush/ which is involved in making music is reflected in a tender way. It is one of my favorite melodies Tim has come up with.  – Rob Oberdorfer