Really one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. There's just something about the way Trevor communicates.. it just seems so open and honest. The entire song (especially the slow build) just feels like that moment when you're in a stressful situation, and you're thinking about it and running it over again and again in your head. You close your eyes and keep closing them harder and harder and then you just kinda break and let it all out. No one ever really sees this happen.
With this song, it's like we see it happening to Trevor. The beautiful thing is he doesn't come right out and tell it. Its just a combination of the words and music, and you just know based off of the way it makes you feel. This might be the thing that makes Youth Lagoon so much different and deeper than any other singer. He gives you music that is pure mental feeling. Looking at the lyrics now, the first paragraph starts with physical things ("you wore a hooded sweatshirt" etc...). Then the rest of the song until "As I walked slowly down your driveway..." is all these things that Trevor is feeling. He's not writing about what's physically happening, just these raw spurts of thought and feeling that are floating around his head during his personal experience (the thoughts being lyrics and his feelings being the music and his vocals/tone). Its an entirely different way for a person to connect and relate to music. Sure someone can relate to "my girlfriend broke up with me etc...", then they relate to the feelings that they had during that time. Trevor seems to go right to those feelings. Its wild and incredibly beautiful. It makes you feel sad, but personally makes me feel happy that such a beautiful thing exists.
Really one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. There's just something about the way Trevor communicates.. it just seems so open and honest. The entire song (especially the slow build) just feels like that moment when you're in a stressful situation, and you're thinking about it and running it over again and again in your head. You close your eyes and keep closing them harder and harder and then you just kinda break and let it all out. No one ever really sees this happen.
With this song, it's like we see it happening to Trevor. The beautiful thing is he doesn't come right out and tell it. Its just a combination of the words and music, and you just know based off of the way it makes you feel. This might be the thing that makes Youth Lagoon so much different and deeper than any other singer. He gives you music that is pure mental feeling. Looking at the lyrics now, the first paragraph starts with physical things ("you wore a hooded sweatshirt" etc...). Then the rest of the song until "As I walked slowly down your driveway..." is all these things that Trevor is feeling. He's not writing about what's physically happening, just these raw spurts of thought and feeling that are floating around his head during his personal experience (the thoughts being lyrics and his feelings being the music and his vocals/tone). Its an entirely different way for a person to connect and relate to music. Sure someone can relate to "my girlfriend broke up with me etc...", then they relate to the feelings that they had during that time. Trevor seems to go right to those feelings. Its wild and incredibly beautiful. It makes you feel sad, but personally makes me feel happy that such a beautiful thing exists.