Welcome to raw impressions, mini music, New Year's Eve. I'm not a... I feel like many things. When I make a resolution like, I'm not gonna do this anymore, or I'm gonna do less of that.
It kinda sets me up for depression. Because I don't usually stop those things. I've managed to temper some of my behaviors over the years and make some progress, but it's never really based on a resolution. It's based on just, you know, maybe slowly, taking, you know, just not creating as much resistance in my life.
I think one of the failures of New Year's resolutions is the word itself resolution. And I think that perhaps it could be more successful for you, for myself, for anyone who struggles with New Year's resolutions, to instead of saying, I'm making this resolution, you say, uh, it's more of a goal or like an expectation you hope to have of yourself in the New Year's, you're gonna say, I'm gonna put out like an expectation for myself. I do, I like goals. Right.
Yeah, it's like, you know, it's actually, and I'm like, there are things are going to happen in the next few months. I'm going to complete the full conclusion record that we're working on. On the very first podcast that we did, I played a song for you that I've been working on for the full conclusion. Because I have a new, I have another song that's like, at this point, where I could present it to you.
And then just sort of, and I'm nervous about it, because I don't think it's that great, but it does, it is kind of about what we're talking about. Oh, okay. So I've never heard, uh, this has not been sung to me, everyone, just, and you can play it for me live. And if you would like a raw impression or any impression after, I can share it or I can, we can simply move on to the next topic.
How's that? Okay. Okay. So this, this is a, I take the instrumental tracks that we're working on that John Davis and I are working on them, and I strip them down to their barest melodic, um, things.
And I play them, play them on a guitar. And I work on my phrasing. Bare witness to me, coming out of the cave, with the morning feeling. See if I be here, cause I'm a moonlit kind.
I can't say no. I don't know why, I just go. One cannot complicate, but can it, can I be? My habit's sacred, you're at the mercy of me.
Cause I can touch the sky, but still go low. I don't know why, I just go. I do, let's do this. I don't wanna be named, cause I'm a moonlit kind.
I can't say no. I don't know why, I just go high. And touch the sky, but still go low. I don't know why, I just go.
There's no crack in the sky. Freedom is a duod. I can't let it change my mind. So what I miss when I leave, I've always wanted to believe.
Emotional. I really, and can I say something about it? Yes. That really felt like, that really felt like it was you.
That really felt like that's you talking to you about yourself. Am I wrong? Like thinking about yourself or reflecting on who you are? I write almost all my songs about myself.
Very limited creative imagination. I'm always drawn to my own struggles. Well, I mean it's worked well for me. Am I right?
Is that true? Yeah, I'm not absolutely about that. Kind of. It's really about what we're talking about.
It is. And the problem, I don't know if it's a problem with this song, but the first thing that I thought of was like, that I heard when John and I came up with the instrumental was like, you know, it's like that I can touch this guy. I'm like, I can't have that line in a song. I'm like, oh my god, that's like Whitney Houston stuff.
That's like, I can touch this guy. I'm like, what? What? What he used to know is wonderful.
I know. But I'm a man of a very, my voice is very limited and low and I have my range is. Is there also a boldness to that type of statement? It's a boldness.
I can touch this guy, but I, and I'd actually struck that line from all of the versions of the song that I did for a while now. It's like, I can't possibly use that, but then yesterday when I was sitting with the song and I was playing it and I'm like, maybe I need to bring that back because I love to sing it. I love that line. And because it's true.
Like, there are so many parts of my life where it's like, I feel like you and I touched the sky often and just just in our day to day life and our conversations and our life with Izzy and kids. And so it's true, you know, but it's such a, it's like, can I get away with that? Does it even matter? You can absolutely get away with it.
And I think you should grab it and run with it and embrace it. I loved hearing you sing that line and I did also intuitively know somehow that it was a stretch for you. I think it's just a matter of time, knowing you and knowing your insecurities. And I was surprised to hear that line and also incredibly moved and proud of you for, oh gosh, damn it, you're making me a little emotional today.
I feel the same way. We have moments in our day to day life that feel majestic beyond description when people say, oh, I climbed Everest and I don't need to climb a physical mountain. I have that feeling over and over again in life and I am profoundly grateful for those moments. And so I say, yes, you touch the sky, keep it in there and allow yourself to sing it with that Whitney pride.
That song is already you sailing into the new year meeting a resolution or a goldoo because it is seeing you stretch and take a risk. I like that impression. Thank you for listening to RA Impressions. Mini Music New Year's Eve.