Slack

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This is the second to last song I wrote for the album. The instrumental came together easily but I seriously looped the instrumental at an excruciating volume for about 5 straight days finding the right melodies/lyrics for this one, mainly on the verses. Shoutout to my wife Taryn for making it through this one and not absolutely hating it at the end. The chorus came together around day two, but it just took a long time for the verses to click with me. Mainly because we’ve never done anything like this song for Hundredth before. In hindsight, I was totally overthinking it. I actually ended up using one of my very first ideas. I also sent it out to my friend Fil Thorpe for additional production during that time and it definitely helped me see it from another side. Lyrically this song is about uncertainty and trying to find a balance between working towards something and just letting things happen. I took the struggle of the writer’s block and tried to use it as motivation and subject matter. ‘Slack’ doesn’t figure itself out, but I think it makes that shitty feeling better and is a reminder to not be so serious all the time.

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take hold, let go
too late to fit the mold
weeks flow, years don’t flying by but changing slow
they never said how you get is based on your dissent ride until your legs give out
they say control feeds the mad then it brings them back chasing what we already have
now we’re on the run
we’re slipping down too low we think we’re havin fun
say we’re up to nothing good we think we’re havin fun
(and you still can’t figure out, figure out
you’re in a whip and you can’t get out, can’t get out if you hold, will it shut you out, shut you out?
you’ll never know till you figure out, figure out)
and now your old skin wears thin shed over and over again
you’re fading in the open pulling ahead but
blind to the bend
they never said where you get
is based on where you went overthinking what my head gives out
thicken your skin and you win give up before beginning and they’ll be tracing it down

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from Somewhere Nowhere, released October 9, 2020
Produced by Chadwick Johnson
Additional Production by Fil Thorpe
Written by Chadwick Johnson
Mixed by Sam Pura
Mastered by Sam Pura

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