Song Breakdown: Last of the fireflies

This one is Byrdo and Charlie. Byrdo's our musical big bro and unofficial 5th member of the group. The secret weapon. Every band's got friends in bands and y'all all hang out and jam and write n stuff. Byrdo, Tyy, and me go way back before Slikk was even here and it was basically a rap group. He does a lot of our production, and got us all going when we first got started, showing us how to record and mix, even played some stuff on a few tracks. Jaiden Malone (Byrdo & Saige Row) have done a few tracks with us, us with them, some we don't even know who's song is who's because we both did half or something. They've written songs for us, and vice versa. He's like the axe behind the "break in case of emergency" glass. So he was working on a project between Jaiden Malone and The Adventures of The Glitch of Glyphe' & little byrd, and was getting back into instrumentals. So he'd done a few and was like, "Tell Charlie i need them strings. I need that sound. I'm painting a picture....." But the picture he was talking about was like a series of tracks which are independent of each other, but go together like a set to tell a story. He was saying how he'd talked to a few folks in the music industry and they were saying how since everything is so independent, people just making music and videos everywhere, that album (full albums) sales dropped because everyone downloads singles. So while doing this song, Him, Charlie, and Tyy, and me a little, did most of the artwork for our music and stuff for his project. We were all like photoshop hermits. Sat up and just listened to all of the music we had at the time and whatever didn't have artwork we did it there. Also recorded a few songs, because when he's around, why not, aye? Free producer. Free studio time. Milk it. So a lot got done. He's always pushing the business side of things, which, yeah, i get it but.... naaaah. But still, it's always something useful. Like he's like "Hey brotha, you gotta get on bandcamp and soundcloud." And i'm like... WHAAA?? and WHOOO? And he's like, "I got you. Just... keep making music." So he did our soundcloud page, and the bandcamp. We all split it, which is cool because each group promotes EVERYONE, so if you're looking for one group you find everyone. More sounds and styles than you were thinking. Free promotion! But, yeah, dig it, as far as this chapter in the story he was painting... well, all of them have this new bird logo on them. He was going on about branding. I'm like, Dude, i don't get into all that business crap, i just like making music. But all of the ones on the bandcamp page that have that bird on it tell a story. They're all connected.

This song here this one's about a person having their last piece of peace.... the last moments in nature and peace before going down into a burning city where there's a hellish war. I don't know if he was talking metaphorical or what, but that's the picture he said, and told Charlie to dig for that. Standing in a field with the woods behind you, the city lit up miles ahead in the distance. You can see the blinking lights of the helicopters, their spotlights beaming down. Waaay down in front of you you can see it, that poison golden glow, as the sky bleeds out from that madness to pink to red and purple, to the dark wide open space sprinkled with stars. You close your eyes so you can see things better, not get distracted by that fire.You can hear faint explosions, but you're far away enough that it doesn't sound like its a part of your world. The grass is tall. you can feel the air around, in, and through your self, grazing your palms like a best friend you haven't seen in forever, wanting to hold your hand. You have to let go of your illusions, and understand the moment. Accept the silence and the peace. Turn away from the city draining you towards the trees and life calling you back to what feels like home. You open your eyes and you're free. Watching little lights glowing float up from the ground you're now anchored in. The smell of the grass, the trees... More and more the lights fade in, like the cinders popping off of a bonfire until you're in a whole new atmosphere, surrounded by them looking up until they look like the flickering lights of a city. The fireflies... rising and dancing through the cool night air. They move in and out like your thoughts and emotions, trying to keep your mind as clear and open as this space. This is a good moment. A the breeze crescendos in smoothly sounding like the ocean through the grass. Just air, crickets, and silence. Here there is no line, no separation from the freedom here on the ground and that in the stars above you. The light is all around. Dancing. Life welcoming you back to the living... before you return to the dead.

Like everything, it has it's moment.... fades out, and you're left with just the dancing light of that distant and disconnected cluster of structures. Reaching upward but never reaching, always burning, never seeing their light.... That whole war. And then you make your way back down.

It was used on a page Byrdo and some peeps run "The United Slaves Of America", which is why it has that picture on it, but he's always like, "MAN, Use that song! Take that song and put it with your stuff!" because it belongs to everyone i guess.

"Last of the Fireflies" - Little Byrd & Charlie Jhayde

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