Story Behind The Song

Explaining the story behind the song can deflate the impact of poetic expression. Not being lazy, I just want listeners to immerse themselves without any bias. Part of the beauty of music is its ability to allow you to make it your own. It truly is what you want and need it to be personally. So...while I want to leave interpretations to the listener, these are some of my most accessible lyrics. It will be obvious to the listener that this song is about an enduring, profound relationship :)

Song Description

"The track's varied diverse instrumentation offers plenty of contrasting tonal color, the smooth and highly elegant timbral qualities provided by the strings, and their switching between legato and staccato articulations injects the track with a certain melancholic and emotionally charged quality that compliments the equally expressive vocal performances brilliantly, and similarly, with the acoustic guitar parts, the implementation of both arpeggiated and strummed elements really help to provide variety in the way the harmonic progression is conveyed to the listener. As to be expected with a Nathan Totten tune, the vocal performances are very strong and are a perfect match for this style of song, the way the harmonies parts are both layered and handled is excellent and really helps to thicken out the already rich texture considerably. Nathan is also a great wordsmith and the lyrics possess a certain maturity and depth to them that really helps to draw the listener into the song's wonderfully detailed arrangement." -- Radio Airplay

Lyrics

I thought I knew instantly how our life would be
Even though it was brand new, it felt like history
The kind I'd only seen in movies and on TV
A technicolor dream

And then came reality
And I felt incomplete
Nothing felt close to new
It felt like history
Not like a favorite scene
More like a childhood feeling, a terrifying dream

But as the sun went down each day
Next to me, you filled the empty space
And when the sun comes up tomorrow
Next to me, you'll fill the empty place
Not a technicolor dream, nor something frightening
Something I cannot explain
I can't explain

So I didn't know instantly how our life would be
Now it's far from brand new
It feels like history
The kind I've never seen in movies and on TV, not a technicolor dream

Now in this reality I can feel complete
And until everything renews, this is our history
And as we watch our favorite scenes
And talk about childhood feelings before we fall asleep

The sun goes down each day
And next to me, you fill the empty space
And when the sun comes up tomorrow
Next to me, you'll fill the empty place
Not a technicolor dream, nor something frightening
Something I cannot explain
I can't explain