About

One of the last songs written for the album, this one was very intuitive write and immediately felt like it belongs. It’s an attempt to express what it has felt like to grow up in the age of information. Terrible and wonderful things are happening all the time and we get bombarded by them non stop. How do we define ourselves in front of a backdrop like this? Feels like there’s nothing we can do, but at the same time so much we should do. So often we just seek the answer we want to hear and keep pushing through.

Many of my songs build towards a resolution towards the end, but I left this one open ended intentionally, it’s meant to hold space for the questions and the overwhelm without needing to find an answer to them. In a way it’s also an ode to how music has allowed me to tackle these questions with curiosity. Existential dread? Yes, but also isn’t it fun to rhyme cognitive dissonance with happenstance? I should definitely give another shoutout to Andrew Bird here, who’s inspired me to not be afraid of playing with unconventional words in my songwriting.

I remember telling Dominic and Lucas that I want this song to sound like a beautiful bubble floating through a dystopian landscape. This moment of reflection just a thin wall away from the chaos of the world. I think we captured that beautifully – this is one of the songs I love even more in its produced version.

Lyrics

Feels like I’m so lost in being found
In being ok with every coin toss
wanna be soft like rain
I wanna be part of the change

There’s a cognitive dissonance
between truth and happenstance
we’ve got everything we want
but we don’t know what we need

Are we pulling through?
Tell us what we want to hear
Are you bullet proof?
Or just immune to all this fear
What do you know? What do you know
about the atmosphere?
Are we pulling through?
Tell us what we want to hear

So watch it all play out
in the time it takes to strike a match
who I am who I’ll become
I never got to be young

What do you know? What do you know
about the atmosphere?
Are we pulling through?
Tell us what we want to hear

My feet stumble as I dance
between confidence and arrogance
should know better but I cant 
just let it be

Are we pulling through?
Tell us what we want to hear
Are you bullet proof?
Or just immune to all this fear
What do you know? What do you know
about the atmosphere?
Are we pulling through?
Tell us what we want to hear
Tell us what we want to hear
Tell us