HEADLIGHTS (coming soon) (Patreon)

Hey Patrons. I hope your week has been going well. Today I am sharing with you a little info about a song I have been dreaming up over the last 3 years which I am planning to release October 1st - called Headlights.

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Oh, before that though - I haven't been using Twitter since around mid-July. Social media tires me out and I had not intended to continue messing with it. But the isolation that I felt without the ability to "express" how I was feeling - random blurbs, thoughts, spur of the moment ideas, and yes, shitposting - was detrimental to my state of mind. After a lot of consideration, I have decided to create a Bluesky account which I will continue to use as if it were Twitter. If you use Bluesky, follow @wolfgun.space for better or for worse.

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Headlights began as a small doodle I made in 2020 while exploring the MegaFM synth I had recently gotten. The song was easily sketched out and the main lyrics written within just a small period of time - probably all in one day. In reality it's a very simple tune, and one that incorporates very perfectly a lot of elements I strive for when writing music. Its mood is unique among my work, though I'd say To The Horizon has some similarities. There is a certain feeling of "dooming" that comes to me like an itch requiring a scratch. Work pertaining to Arana Sleeps tends to move in this direction naturally.

At the time of its writing I was working relentlessly on PROJECTIONS (the game) and I set Headlights aside, hoping to return to it once I had finished that project. Unfortunately, serious life events occurred around the same time I finished PROJECTIONS in 2021 and I was forced to deal with that unfolding situation - Though I had planned to finish Headlights that fall, I was unable. The year 2022 was not very good for me as a direct result of those events. and although I had worked some on the track (fleshing out the lyrics and creating an arrangement), my goal of finishing it in the fall of 2022 also did not come to pass.

This year hasn't really been much different - my mind is very scattered and I remain emotionally unstable, but healing comes regardless. Here and there I am picking up pieces of my life and continuing to create as much as I am able, so Headlights is now nearly finished. Yesterday I recorded the vocals and today I have polished the mix into completion - What remains to be done is finishing the structure of the song and adding a few sounds which I think it needs. My goal is to have it up on bandcamp on Oct 1st - a few years later than planned.

I should point out that I think Headlights is a very special song. It also leans into some of the stylings I am reeling in for TOWERS aesthetics. I wanted to talk about it here because it is on my mind and I thought you might find it exciting, or at the very least, interesting. I will leave you with the first verse's lyrics. Thank you for reading.

I feel the hand of darkness

It runs along my skin

And it doesn't let me go

It wants to let me know

That somewhere hiding out there

A smoking fire is burning up

Deep into the night

Oh, I need to take a ride

In the corner of my eye I see its face

Ever watching, I can feel it in this place

I think I've seen you somewhere...!