Dear Friends and Family,
Living Symphony is one of those songs that carries inside jokes, odd inspirations, and a few moments that still make me laugh to myself when I sing it.
I slipped in a couple of jokes for one of my friends (you’ll know who you are). The sounds you hear after the line “playing video games” are actually from the video game Rocket League—I recorded the startup sounds and repitched them to the key of the song. It felt like a fun way to turn something familiar into something musical.
There’s also a line in the song that came from a very brief season of drinking Twisted Tea when it first came out. I often write what’s around me—or what I’m holding. Songs have a way of holding onto moments like that—small, ordinary details that end up marking a season of life.
Living Symphony is a reminder to me that our lives are made up of many little sounds, stories, and rhythms—some serious, some silly—all woven together into something meaningful.
We are all a part of a larger story, a living symphony.
—Trailand
Living Symphony | Lyrics
I tried to write for You again
But words wouldn’t come to lay with me
I set in the quiet
Waiting for a knock on the door
I wrote the sound
That I heard on the breeze
Given gracefully
The Living Symphony, Contains this melody
And I
Want to love You well
Holy Isosceles
I hold onto You selfishly And You
Have always loved me well
With the greatest of compliments
The image of Yourself
I unwind with a gin and tonic
I’ll call you after I’ve stayed up too late
Playing video games
When we’re down and it’s three to twelve
I’m afraid to write
‘Cause I know it sounds ironic
But there’s plenty of time Twisted, rotate
Carry me and climb
And we
Try to love You well
Holy Infinity
And love each as their self For You
Will come to love and dwell
While singing You hung selflessly
A movement in the Symphony
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