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Caged Bird

by Habes

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We think we are creating things, but those things are actually creating us. I wrote & rewrote & recorded & edited & re-recorded & shelved this song for 4 years. Different sections were birthed out of different relationships; certain notes only came alive when they were sang in front of a crowd; some lyrics only made sense after I had lived them. That’s how the creative process is – sometimes it is way ahead of you, and you are doing your best to catch up to it. If you are writing about emotion you haven’t yet felt, then, in a strange way, the song is writing you, and not the other way around.

At some point, I gave up any intention to make it the way I always wanted to, giving lame excuses such as: I’m too broke to do it up right in a real studio; or I’m not in the headspace I was when I first wrote it. Look, the timing will never be ideal to do something creative – and even if it was, you would still find a reason not to do it. The only thing that kept the spark of this song alive in me as the years passed was the encouragement of a few close friends who always told me how much they enjoyed it – “not because you’re my friend,” each would insist, “I actually just like it”. And they were even talking about the earlier mixes that I hated. So thanks Ralph, John, and Marcus – and thanks to Scott for always being the guy that yelled “caged bird” instead of “free bird” at my shows.

All I’m trying to say is, whatever you have unfinished (or maybe even un-started), get on it. Do it for you (and for your friends). But ultimately, don’t do it for what it may or may not mean to someone else – do it for what it means to you, and what it brings out of you. And then, it’s done, poof, and you can start on something new.

Oh yeah, and this song is about love and pain and growth and how giving your heart will probably destroy it and maybe rebuild it better, too.

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released June 3, 2016

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