Burn Slow from Somewhere Nowhere by HUNDREDTH

This was the first song I wrote when I walked into Panda. It was day one and Sam and his team were helping me get all my gear setup with their gear in the east wing of the studio. I had just bought this little Juno synthesizer Roland came out with and turned it on for the first time to check it out and ended up looping some chords. I threw some drum loops over that and then Sam walked over to the MG-1 and played a bass line over it. I added the main arp with another synth and parted the song out. This was all within the first 10 minutes of turning everything on. I thought that was super cool and it felt like a cool moment, so I kept all of those original takes and didn’t even change them. We added real drums over the song a couple weeks later. I wrote the vocals for this one back at my house in Charleston, as I was finishing the album. It’s actually the first song I’ve written where my wife Taryn actually wrote some of the melodies, which was super cool. She wrote half of the chorus, which was giving me trouble for quite a while. I called her in one day and said “What should this chorus be?” and 5 minutes later she spits out the melody for the first two lines. It was a sick moment. Overall this song is a disco-influenced, feel good track about slowing down and enjoying things. I have a tendency to rush through things so this one’s a good reminder for me.

Tracklist

12.

Burn Slow

3:53

Lyrics

it’s on either side
when you hold it up to the light where it divides
is wherever you draw the line
we’re all on a dead end vine brace yourself it’s a long ride if we’re rushing for gold
i’ll be the last in line
cuz i’m
i’m burning it slow burning it slow
the way i wanna go
i’m burning it slow burning it slow
the way i wanna roll
rushing on
don’t make you wrong we’re on our own so
i’m burning it slow burning it slow
the way i wanna go
don’t have a minute to wait
when you’re always on the chase flip through the page
so you can learn who to hate
we’re all on a jagged bend stacking up shit
just to forget
if time is a thief
i guess i’m giving in again
cuz feeling the feeling
is half of the reason we’re dreaming of sinking diving off the deep end
burning slow burning slow
the way i wanna go
burning slow burning slow
the way i wanna roll

Credits

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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