Radical Face - The Missing Road

This song is an actual single, meaning it is not related to anything else. I have started a monthly mailer called "Hidden Hollow" (https://hiddenhollow.online/), and I am challenging myself to include original, non-album songs in every issue. This will give me a chance to release music freely while I'm finishing my new album, which is fun. Sometimes a one-and-done is really nice.

This particular track began while experimenting with an open-tuning (DADGAF# ... for all you guitarists). I wrote the chords and melodies over the course of a day, but the words came out a few weeks later, after a read of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken". Reading it again got me thinking about some of the "almosts" in my life -- roads I nearly went down but in the end chose another -- but not in a negative way. More in a curious one, I'd say. I wrote the lyrics in one sitting later that day, and sang them immediately after.

For the cover image, I decided I would paint the first picture that caught my eye on a google image search on Procreate, then I used the time-lapse of it for the video.

Lyrics:

Time
Ticking in the back of my mind
‘Cause I know what I’ll find
If I sit in place
So I walk
Never really sure where I’m going
But it’s better than knowing
What everyday will be

I am who I am
And I know what I know
But I don’t know my way
I just go where I go

But I never could forget your face
It finds me in my sleep
And I’d like to tell you about those dreams
But talk is always cheap
So I go where I go

That road is gone
Now it just lives in this song

I’ve seen all I’ve seen
But I sometimes wonder
If you still think of me

I never meant to fade away
It’s just the way I’m made
I hope if you ever hear my name
That it doesn’t bring you pain

And just know that I know
Yeah, just know that I know
That those days were gold
And a heart always holds
Onto missing roads

Видео Radical Face - The Missing Road канала Radical Face