Quote from the band website. www.jukeboxtheghost.com/site
I wrote most of the lyrics to this song in my head while watching New Year’s fireworks in Philadelphia over the Delaware River. This was just after I started having problems with vocal nodules, so it was a long time before I actually sang it out loud. Even when we went to record it, I had only sang it a handful of times because it was in the part of my singing range that particularly hurt. In the studio, we had to record bits and pieces of the vocals every day and piece it together from various takes because I wasn’t able to get through the whole song without some pretty severe pain. The second verse is based on a very memorable dream I had about standing on top of a skyscraper, watching a tidal wave roll into New York City, with enormous sea creatures visible on the surface of the water. The ending verses are my conclusion to all the philosophical/cosmological pondering in the Sun/Stars sequence, which ultimateley asks the obvious: “What if we were created to gaze at the stars up above?”
Quote from the band website. www.jukeboxtheghost.com/site
I wrote most of the lyrics to this song in my head while watching New Year’s fireworks in Philadelphia over the Delaware River. This was just after I started having problems with vocal nodules, so it was a long time before I actually sang it out loud. Even when we went to record it, I had only sang it a handful of times because it was in the part of my singing range that particularly hurt. In the studio, we had to record bits and pieces of the vocals every day and piece it together from various takes because I wasn’t able to get through the whole song without some pretty severe pain. The second verse is based on a very memorable dream I had about standing on top of a skyscraper, watching a tidal wave roll into New York City, with enormous sea creatures visible on the surface of the water. The ending verses are my conclusion to all the philosophical/cosmological pondering in the Sun/Stars sequence, which ultimateley asks the obvious: “What if we were created to gaze at the stars up above?”