A Days Wait has released a new song called โTongue Tied.โ A song for those who canโt seem to put their sentiments into words.
Weโve all been there, believe it or not. Youโve finally worked up the guts to express yourself. The individual is standing directly in front of you. All thatโs left for you to do now is open your mouth and speak. But you wonโt be able to. The issue isnโt so much what to say as it is how to express it. And, well, you just wind up avoiding the subject entirely. Itโs not because youโre afraid or anything; you just donโt know what to say.
Donโt worry, A Days Waitโs new song โTongue Tiedโ understands what youโre going through. With its dreamy vocals and poppy, gently lo-fi accompaniment, Day Waveโs Jackson Phillipsโ tune from the projectโs Lifeline EP will undoubtedly fit that sense of not being able to say what you want to say.
Phillipsโ production talents are just what the song requires, and despite the songโs abundance of rhythmic elements and vocals, it isnโt at all uncomfortable to listen to. If anything, this works in its favor, giving โTongue Tiedโ a more dramatic vibe, as if our narrator is actually experiencing strong feelings about what theyโve lost.
The line โThe gulf between us grows because I was so tongue-tiedโ from the songโs chorus is particularly powerful, demonstrating how damaging it is to allow pride and embarrassment stand in the way of what actually counts.
Although the narrator of this exquisite song is โTongue Tied,โ we should take this as a lesson. A lesson on saying whatever we feel when we have to, rather than waiting for the โperfect wordsโ to come to us.
You may listen to the song below.