NEVERENDING

I wrote this song mid panic attack after doom scrolling TikTok at 2 am. The algorithm feeding me nothing but video after video about the imminent effects of climate change. I couldn't stop thinking about how quiet the woods will be in 50 years. How eerie that bird and frog free silence will sound to those who lived through what was before. Yet, to the next generation, or the one after, it'll just be normal. Will they be able to sense something's missing? Feel the void passed on in their DNA?

It got me thinking about how the "end” of the world is never really a literal ending, it's just the start of something different. Even when the sun explodes, there's still something left. It's not necessarily comforting to frame the grief that way but it does give some perspective on how to handle it. A reminder that we have to keep going. The dying deserve company, someone to bear witness, a hand to hold - that’s what I feel our job now is for this planet. To accept that - yes - some of what’s ahead is too late to stop, but to not give up on what’s left to save. Every little bit counts.

As for production, the ambient nature sounds that bookend the song were recorded on my iPhone in my childhood hometown of Nantucket MA. The daytime bit at the beginning of summer, the nighttime sounds at the end. The live orchestra was recorded via zoom in Bulgaria. One of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had, getting to sit in LA on the other side of the world and listen to dozens of musicians play something that came out of my brain. This mix of the everyday and the grandiose added a certain level of intimacy and gravity to the production that I felt really resonated with the themes at hand.

Thanks as always for taking a listen,

MC/Dalloway