The song has a very specific antagonist, but I left the choruses as a salve for the rest of us. It's not meant to be political or religious, but more like a mantra; like someday this will all be behind us and we'll get along somehow.
Good for solo drives, rainy afternoons alone drinking a cuppa, silent contemplation & possibly tears when no one’s looking. Somber, but soothing, hopeful and reflective.
Written while waiting out the pandemic in Los Angeles, April 2020. I recorded most of it in one very long night in Oct 2020—I had just bought my new J-Bass and loved playing it on this track. That's when I started dubbing my makeshift living room set-up "My Pseudio" (aka Two Side Tables and a Microphone.)
Later, my friend Aaron Tap put my Garageband tracks into Logic and cleaned them up considerably. Listen for the choir that comes in at 2:29, Arr. by Paula Kelley (Drop Nineteens.) She and Aaron Tap sang like the good angels they are. Aaron also mixed the song.
As for the lyrics, the process started with a one-word prompt "Burn" from a private international FB group called The Song Tribe that kept me busy, but also sane during the long shut-in. I was writing quickly and intuitively during this time; I was just getting back into writing and not overthinking things so much. "Burn" evoked farming imagery, so I started there and then went down some New Testament rabbit hole.