Raven’s Ruckus Vol #1

Just recently release by the alternative band Young The Giant, a new EP called Act II: Exile featuring four tunes. It’s the first part to be released from their forthcoming album American Bollywood that is due out in October. The first tune on the album is titled “My Way” which has a very mellow, chill, melodic vibe has been my go to jam recently. I’ve been in a serious emotion funk for the better part of my entire life (but most recently the past 6 years and counting) and this song really resonates with me on the level of failed attempts to move on.

Starting off with the lyrics: “This could be the ending of us, it could be the falling sun. Could have been a classic, fatally attractive suicidal, kind of love. I was just a kid from nowhere, never knew where I belong…” Immediately hit me feeling like all this time has gone by and I am still waiting to feel right but it hasn’t. And no matter how far I’ve come or how much progress I think I am making I am still just stuck in an endless loop of what could have been or what could be but I don’t trust myself to know what is right or wrong, what could be right, or what’s just another mistake waiting to happen. It reminds me of how I felt when I knew my life was changing for the worst, just when I thought my couldn’t be happier- life was all I wanted and how did I get this lucky was coming to an end before it even got to feel that way. The chorus: “I will be on my way, Baby, I hope you understand. Always seem to want what I can’t have then I hit the road when it gets bad. Baby, I will be on my way” reminds me that I still have a lot of learning and growing to do, sometimes it’s just easier to pack up the situation and leave it than trying to see where it goes. That it’s okay to say this situation is not for me. Life feels like an endless loop of betrayal and hurt, and even when I take a chance and try something new it turns out my grasp on reality was still skewed. Check out the track below.