country ✦ sense memory ✦ reminiscing on what didn't work
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🟡 fun facts about yellow
✦Yellow is the most visible color in daylight to the human eye, which is why it's used for taxis, school buses, and caution signs.
✦It's the first color the eye notices and the last one the brain holds onto — yellow memories tend to fade in detail but linger in feeling.
✦Yellow is closely tied to nostalgia in color psychology — it's the shade most associated with sun-bleached photographs and aging memories.
✦Golden hour, the warm yellow light just before sunset, is named for the way it makes everything look softer, slower, and more sentimental.
✦In many cultures yellow represents both happiness and caution — joy that comes with a warning label.
✦Studies show scent is the sense most strongly tied to memory — which is why a certain smell can pull you back to a specific yellow-sky afternoon instantly.
✍ what this song means to me
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Yellow skies is meant to be about letting go. I had always had the concept of the song in my mind but I never knew it was going to be country until I really got into writing sessions for the album. I asked my great friend Jez from the PIE SISTERS to help me write it and she helped with no hesitation. I found some simple chords and started playing a little tune. While we were writing, we started to focus on the five senses; sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. We tried to hit every sense of missing somebody, something that you know you're okay without, but still think about every now and then. I've never done a country song before but I do appreciate the genre and definitely wanted to get out of my comfort zone with this one.
In the beginning you even hear a poem, recited by my lovely girlfriend Emily, who actually gave me the lore of Emily Dickinson and how her poems were to her woman "best friend." I never knew this and thought it would be a nice touch to have her read one of her poems as a transition on the album. When I found the poem, it coudn't get more perfect than this. A poem about the senses, mentioning the word "tune" and ending with a nice metaphor about the YELLOW sun. Serendipity at it's finest hour.
#nostalgia#old love#yellow
📜 lyrics
[verse 1]
Smell the breeze passing by
As I sit in my seat
Hear the leaves rustling
Feel the freeze in my knees
I taste the calm right before
The clouds weep
That's when I open my eyes and breathe
[chorus]
Like sunflowers growing by the doorstep
The honey sweater in the dresser that you left
When you hopped in that taxi and headed west
And said goodbye
To yellow skies
[verse 2]
Whiff of whiskey hits my face
as I reach for the shot
Sounds of tears on the way
In the form of rain drops
I savor the memories of what it is
And what it's not
That's when I pull back and release
All my thoughts
[chorus]
Like sunflowers growing by the doorstep
The honey sweater in the dresser that you left
When you hopped in that taxi and headed west
And said goodbye
To yellow skies