Asa Daniels – Miss Your Train
You’d pay whatever it takes for a stranger to tell you truths about yourself. Don’t feel bad about it! Nearly all of us do it in one way or another. There are whole industries built around this simple idea. Hollywood therapists or horoscope writers for lowly websites would be out of a job if there weren’t a market for this kind of thing. Some of us need a pep talk. And, every single one of us needs someone else to take an interest in who we are.
But the kind of songwriting that Asa Daniels produces may just do the exact same job, but through a different method. It’s not a new trick either. It’s the reason why we treasure writers so much. We appreciate those who can write about themselves and make you feel as if they’re telling you’re story. How else are we to not feel alone before someone shares their story and we find out that it’s the same.
“Miss Your Train” is a song of impending heartbreak. It’s not so much a breakup song as the realisation that some kind of divorce is inevitable. Asa Daniels uses heartfelt lyrics to tell the stor,y and the kind of pacing learned through his years as an alt-rock musician with the band Gooseberry. And if all of those resonated with you and somehow spoke of some old pain that you felt, you may just, at least, take some comfort in knowing that you’re not the only one to whom this has happened.
Matt McLean – Sleeping in on a Tuesday
School and career counsellors are frightful figures. They’re much scarier than a gravedigger, priest, or hangman. All of these professions deal with an inevitable and upcoming end.
But the counsellors are supposed to see a whole trail of good and bad decisions spread out over years and years. If they really possess that kind of foresight, and if they’re inclined to genuinely help you, shouldn’t they advise you to take it easy? That’s what country-rock songwriter Matt McLean dreams of.
After all, what’s happiness and what’s actually worth doing? Nah, this isn’t a self-help book designed to push some magic formula on you. This is just to ask you whether you really want to play the game and win by conventional rules.
“Sleeping in on a Tuesday,” this acoustic country-rock gem by Matt McLean, isn’t just a fantasy of goofing off with no repercussions. It’s a deeply philosophical song. It dares to ask: “Would quitting right now really make a whole lot of difference in the grand scheme of things?” Answer that right and you might just be free. There are too many offices turned into prison cells where rich people have locked themselves up. McLean knows what he’d answer.
