Sandy Static (latest cut)

This song is called “Sandy Static,” and it’s the 2nd part of a 3-part-arc of songs that starts with “Dumbstruck at the Jukebox” and ends with “Graveyard Girl.” It’s funny to me how this song sort of grew out of “Graveyard Girl,” since I had that song written first, and then I was just sort of playing around in that key, and I wound up writing a little intro to “Graveyard Girl,” and then over time and play throughs that intro just got longer and developed some momentum of its own, and then the lyrics just came to me one day. “Dumbstruck,” actually grew out of “Sandy,” in exactly the same way. It’s maybe my favorite way to write a song, just by building on the song that I just played or Im about to play. “Sandy Static” is basically a description of a dream I had, and then how I felt about it. I think by the time I wrote this song I was sort of already over the girl who had inspired the feelings behind the song. I think that the whole song is a reflection of itself. Im sitting there writing this song about how Im writing this song about this girl who I’ve basically let go of the idea of pursuing. It was never even any drama tbh, it was more of just a swing and a miss. Two ships passing in the night. The lyrics really tell the story better than I could though, so here they are: “I had you stuck in my head back then, from the minute we first met. I had you stuck in my head back then. I didn’t know how to get you out of it. I had you stuck in my head, I had this dream about you bursting forth from a treasure chest inside a lighthouse and now everytime I see you radiate through the static, I slide down to the sand and try to turn off that bright screen and now my silver-tongued-stomach digests you into a memory, but idiot-romantic that I am, I can’t stop picturing your face.”