When you start thinking about the contrast of our biographical timeline and the historical timeline in which we live it's like falling into a black hole and it's hard to not feel like an ant when you finally crawl back out. I think what the song is about is how we all live with a certain disconnect as well as dependence to our surroundings and the people in our lives. Something I've never played before and only happens once in the song because I couldn't get my fingers back in that position. She was learning a song from the Frozen 2 soundtrack. I actually was messing around with that opening instrumental because of a new chord my wife taught me. It wasn't a sit down and plan to write a song type of day – it just sort of happened. ![]() ![]() I haven't really found a non-melodramatic way to describe this song yet. What I thought was a crazy dream to have him singing on this song ended up reality which still blows my mind. As it turns out my buddy in Nashville, Philippe Bronchtein (who played organ and pedal steel on the album) knows Chris and connected us. I was sitting on my back patio as my wife was making planter boxes with my 2 and 5 year old running around the yard “helping.” I kept hearing Christopher Porterfield's voice in the melody. I remember it came considerably fast compared to some of the other songs on the album. I was listening to the new Field Report album “Brake Light, Red Tide” a lot around the time I wrote this. ![]() Listen to 'Wild, Wild Heart' from Last Year's Man's album Brave the Storm, to be released November 13, 2020
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