Love's Standing

Gary Fox

Love’s Standing- A good change up for the flow of the album, this one is vaguely, very vaguely, country-esque. That’s mainly because of the heavily reverbed slide underneath the acoustic in the verses. I love pounding the strings on the acoustic in the intro, to the point they distorted the mike a bit. I originally thought about redoing that, but realized it added to the urgency of the track. The keys in the chorus are pure Ray Charles circa a long time ago. To me, this song sounds best on a cold winter morning. The lyrics are focused on the endless struggle between a head and a heart, with the head doing most of the talking via the chorus and the heart occasionally getting a line in here and there via the verses. The break then gives some insight into the cause of the struggle. The last verse is when the head and heart manage to focus together, if only for a moment or two, and then the head takes over again…