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This song is about learning to trust oneself and one’s role in the infinite tapestry of Being. To shed the ‘shoulds,’ the cladding of habit, in favor of embracing innate, flexible, creative intuition. Snakes shed their skin in order to grow; the same goes for us as humans. Yet we try, often very hard, not to change. We trap ourselves in straightjackets of identity, certainty, shoulds, musts, and oughts.
Some people die years before their death, so ensnared are they in rigidity. “Release” is an invitation to try another way. To embrace the gambit that letting go isn’t giving in, giving up, or losing mastery. “Give up what thou hast, and then thou wilt receive,” or so Jung quotes from the oracle of Delphi. Our desperate efforts at cementing control can consume us and, ironically, render us utterly powerless.
To crack open a thought of Alan Watts’, who honestly wants to be some “sage of stone?” Better to work with the natural flowing movement of moment; to perpetually surprise yourself with what you find within and without.
So I suppose the song is a heart-felt invitation for the listener to embrace their own potential for growth, healing, and discovery. And in doing so, to recognize themselves as essential yet evanescent elements of an incalculably expansive whole. The ongoing album themes of vulnerability, transformation, and facing the unknown are certainly present.
Musically speaking this track is probably the most conventional on the album. It almost has a standard verse/chorus type format – but not quite! Intricate broken chords with droning notes drive the song, sometime with a fair bit of contrapuntal activity. Taken as a whole I think it rewards repeated listens.
My efforts to introduce variation within repetition produced some nice moments on this track; I had a lot of fun with the layered acoustic guitars, and especially with the vocal choir that comes in on the second chorus. I’m also quite proud of the celeste, which brings some dreaminess before being retethered to earth by the snare and bass guitar.
I think this song is meant to have a disarming quality, to invoke just a modicum of receptivity. Because the next track of the album is, if not the best, then certainly the most imposing, and certainly drives home the existential and spiritual themes of the album as a whole. In that light, “Release” is intended to be a kind of psychic palette cleanser.
Where can you stand to benefit from releasing some constriction, some rigidity? There’s magic in saying “yes.”
lyrics
If you do not give in just once in your life
You will never truly know what life is
If you never shed your armored skin
You will wither and die within
If you resent, rage, fear, or struggle in vain
Let your stagnation be the doorway to change
Unwind the web
Sort through its tangled ends
Unbind the thread
Weave it anew again
The wheel of change ever spins
Cycles complete and begin again
Rolling with tides is an art, my friends,
Release your seed-self to the wind
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