Kevin Morby - A Random Act of Kindness
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🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Morby - "A Random Act of Kindness," from the 2022 album This is a Photograph on Dead Oceans
With today's Song of the Day, Kevin Morby aims to explore the duality of language on this impassioned piece of Americana. He explains in a press release:
In ‘A Random Act Of Kindness’ I set out to write a song where each line could be interpreted in two completely different ways. For example; when I sing the words ’out of trust…’ it could be heard as either I have lost my sense of trust in something or that I am committing an act with trust as my motive. It’s a song about the menacing nature of the sun rising during a dark time in one’s life only to further illuminate their pain and suffering – and how during these periods it is often the selfless acts of strangers that keeps a person going.
Sonically I am so proud and surprised by where we ended up with this one. Producer Sam Cohen and I had set out to make a sort of windows-down-mid-tempo-cruiser and somehow, with weeks of exploration, made a sonic rocket ship that shoots you out into outer space over the course of 4 minutes. Enjoy!
Morby returns to Seattle on November 11th, playing The Showbox.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:20.0 | Out of time |
| 0:24.0 | Out of time out of money |
| 0:28.0 | Out of time out of money |
| 0:32.0 | Honey |
| 0:36.0 | Out of lust |
| 0:40.0 | Out of lust out of trust |
| 0:44.0 | Out of lust out of trust for the sky above my head |
| 0:50.0 | Sun came up through my hands |
| 0:54.0 | Sun came up with no plan |
| 0:58.0 | Sun came up |
| 1:02.0 | Strike up the bed |
| 1:06.0 | Out of grace |
| 1:12.0 | Out of grace out of stack |
| 1:16.0 | Out of grace out of stack |
| 1:20.0 | Sit a little while |
| 1:24.0 | Out of dreams |
| 1:28.0 | So it seems |
| 1:32.0 | The nightmares will greet me at my bed |
| 1:40.0 | Shut me up |
| 1:42.0 | If you can't shut me up |
| 1:46.0 | Take my hand |
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