This was my second most listened song of 2020, only losing the musical crown to another EDEN song, Circles. It was, and still is, one of the most uplifting and hopeful songs I've ever heard, one that isn't just blind positivity and that helped me through some of the worst times in my life. It has that edge of blissful cynicism I've come to love from EDEN, but in a style largely distinct from most of his other songs on vertigo.
I love the crowd cheer samples in the song, I adore the idea of having your fans shout something at a concert and to use it in a song, and he incorporated it really well in the chorus of this song. There's nothing quite as intimately human as a chorus of raw vocals.
The way he structures the song is so emotionally charged, it feels like a genuine piece of art. A soft introduction, a heartfelt chorus, a passionately powerful verse, a calm bridge, and a beautifully sharp ending, as if it were the whole journey of revelation squeezed into three minutes and thirty-seven seconds.
The lyrical content and message of the track speaks out to me the most, it was what gave me the hope and strength to get through life after all. Lines like "becoming more than I think of me", "silver linings are all I need" and the signature lyric "all we ever are is brave", they all touch a corner of my soul I never really knew how to explain before. Lending from the concept of nihilism but painting it with the essence of hope, the kind you find at the bottom of the well.
A lot that I love about this song, I can't put into words. It's strongly emotive, it's very personal and intimate. It's a soft anthem, it's rugged comfort in a bottle. It was there at the crossroads to clear the fog and now it sits in my heart like treasure from another lifetime. The best songs get painted in a poetic light.
Rating: 5/5