Say Love, and a Note on Passivity

Happy Friday! “Say Love” by Roe’s Garden is out now and available to stream on all music platforms. I wrote the first version of this song about two and a half years ago, just after Understanding and I signed our Co-Publishing Agreement and I thought we would be selling songs like hot cakes. That is not what happened. Instead, the demo sat on my hard drive until early this year, when we decided to use it in the run of Roe’s Garden singles this year, so we retracked the instrumental and added Erica to it. I originally hoped she’d sing the whole thing but it ended up another duet, which is becoming a bit of a theme for Roe’s Garden, though I’m not sure it’ll continue. Being able to easily distinguish each act from the others is a key part of the Beautiful Idiots plan working out, so having the same voices appear multiple times as multiple artists can make things a little fuzzy.

Anyway, this song is about those times when you’re in a relationship and you both know there’s something wrong, but neither of you wants to say it. All that does is create more distance between you, and it usually ends up worse than it would if the two of you just talked it out when the issue arose. Life could all be so simple, but people have a funny tendency of being passive when they don’t want to deal with the consequences of confrontation. No judgement, I had to learn that the hard way too.

Now that I’m thinking about it, I don’t think it really does any good to be passive in any facets of your life. Passivity will afford you whatever is left over. If you want something in life, you have to go after it. That’s almost always going to be uncomfortable, but that’s where the growth happens. If you want something for yourself, I believe it’s your duty to yourself to do all you can to make it happen. It’s in books like The Alchemist, there’s tons of sayings about it, you probably see ads on your phone about it… just go after it. Nobody knows what’s in your head if you don’t say it out loud. Speak up, you’ll feel better about it… eventually.

Hope you enjoy the song.

-J.P.