Drag | Day Wave

I love this song. 

I loved Total Zombie when it came out a few months ago Nothing at All before that. Something about Day Wave’s happy beach sound over the somewhat-not-so-happy lyrics resonates with me. 

I don’t want to be a drag

I know it’s hard to be around me

Only a fool would want me

i’m falling and bringing you underground

What am i good for?

All of these sad, self-effacing lyrics just beak my heart. But hearing them with this music makes me smile.

I think because somewhere in that weird intersection the the music and the lyrics, there’s this innocent sense of optimism. This sense of “come on, you’re not that bad” when someone is negative about themselves. Or the feeling of “come on. it’s won’t be that bad. when someone tries to warn you of what being with them is like.

It’s the urge you get to grab someone’s hand and run. Run off the sidewalk, through the sand, and into the freezing cold water that shocks you into bliss. Hoping to see that smile that slowly emerges from their face when they get out of their head.

And hoping this moment is enough to make that smile stay.