“And I'll be holding on, hoping the sun comes shining through/ I'm going nowhere, if you got the time.” “It's a long hard road until I can get to you,” he sang. was two weeks into lockdown – the band released a video under that name, with Followill performing “Supermarket” acoustically. Most fans probably know it as “Going Nowhere.” Last March – when much of the U.S. Another is “Supermarket,” a song Followill wrote more than a decade ago but hadn’t felt ready to put on an album until now. It’s one of several moments on “When You See Yourself” that feel eerily prophetic. “Waiting on the light of day/ Whole new kind of feeling is on the way/ I'm not scared of knowing if we’re ever getting out/ We could be here forever without a doubt.” “Waking early in the morning,” he sings on the track. And it meant something completely different than that.” … And then after (the pandemic) happened, I read the lyrics. “They obviously wanted to break out and go live a life, so they created this fantasy of where they wanted to go. “Echoing,” for example, was written about “a couple of people that were institutionalized,” Followill says. "But I felt like if I was writing it through a different lens, and about what I considered (to be) someone else, there was a lot more honesty that came out, and a lot more of myself, actually, shined through.” “I never wanted to write a song that was like, ‘Oh, woe is me, this is my life, this is my relationship,’" he says.
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On Friday, the band’s fans will finally see the full picture, with the release of album eight, “ When You See Yourself.” It’s a more personal, introspective turn for Followill and his bandmates (brothers Jared and Nathan Followill, with cousin Matthew), who grew from a rowdy garage rock act to arena commanders in their early years.Ĭaleb, the band’s principal songwriter, got to this point in a roundabout way: by writing about other people and characters. I felt like we had captured who we were in that moment.” I didn't want to go in there and tweak anything. And when I listened to it, I was happy with what we had done. I put the album away for at least three months before I ever even listened to it. "It was a little difficult, but it gave us some time to really reflect.
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