Iridescent

from Somewhere Nowhere by HUNDREDTH

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I wrote this one in April of 2018. I remember listening to the singles we had so far and felt like we didn’t yet have a song that just felt like a ‘dreamy dopamine’ track. Something that felt like a warm blanket. So I dove down that for a couple of hours and what I ended up with felt like a weird hybrid mix of yacht rock and upbeat britpop.

I didn’t touch the song lyrically until a month later. I probably tried about 20 choruses over this song until I finally landed what you hear now. Lyrically, I feel like it’s about taking meticulous care of something, whether it be a relationship or project, for a long time and then one day you realize that even though you cared so much for it it’s not ultimately up to you whether it thrives or not. And even trying to make it thrive almost adds a pressure that could potentially ruin it. It’s about letting things happen and just trying to get through. The lyric ‘Free falling now cause we’re hooked on synthetic light. An iridescent lie’ is the realization that we are never really in control and the beauty is actually in the experience. And even if it’s just an illusion, everything looks different from a different angle. The goal is experience instead of expectation.

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when you hold it close
it slips away
& what you guard the most gets ripped the same
when i say i want to wait another day
it’s really cuz i can’t decide
if we’re better off
to be lost so we don’t ever realize
you’re on your way up but you feel it but
you turn away
go down just try to
get you up but you wanna wait
some things we didn’t want to say are stuck in between the lines
free fallling now cuz we’re hooked on synthetic light
an iridescent lie
watch it drift it away oversaturate
but we’re lost in gray
when i say i don’t feel the rush of light it’s really cuz i can’t define
if we’re better off
to be numb so we don’t have to feel alive
you’re on your way up but you feel it but
you turn away
go down just try to
get you up but you wanna wait
some things we didn’t want to say are stuck in between the lines
free fallling now cuz we’re hooked on synthetic light
an iridescent lie

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from Somewhere Nowhere, released October 9, 2020
Produced by Chadwick Johnson & Sam Pura
Written by Chadwick Johnson
Mixed by Sam Pura
Mastered by Sam Pura

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Hundredth is Chadwick Johnson, Alex Blackwell & Andrew Minervini.

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