Rogue Wave: Permalight (or How the Future isn’t What it Used to Be)
Posted by Troy | Filed under Music
When my wife and I first planned to get married we had big plans to take off across the country with just the clothes on our backs.
Hit the Cali coast and live in our van… only leaving the beach to bake cookies for the homeless or something…
Of course… three kids and two testicles later… I’ve yet to see the Pacific.
But if I close my eyes when Permalight is playing… I can almost feel the waves just barely hitting the soles of my feet…
the sand between my fingers…
the sun on my forhead…
And as Rogue Wave sings… The future isn’t what it used to be...
I can’t help but feel a weird mix of emotion at the hopefulness we once had… how our plans have been about as foiled as they could be…
and how happy I am in my current future.
It hasn’t been easy… and one thing I know for certain is that it never will be…
Somehow though… I’m reminded every day of the suffering from which my pain has saved me.
Both the music and the writing on this record reveal the conflict within the band’s journey (as we saw in the documentary D-Tour) moving them forward after celebrating Pat’s new kidney and mourning their loss of Evan Farrell.
Always distinct, the band moves into even newer territory on this album…
While “Good Morning (the Future)” was playing the other day, my wife found herself surprised to be enjoying a song by “that one super-lame band.”
“This isn’t Owl City” I replied, “It’s Rogue Wave.”
“Oh… no wonder.”
Maybe one day we’ll actually make it to the west coast…
and even though I’m learning to stop and ask directions… by then we’ll have definitely taken the scenic route to arrive at our future.
Then we can swim out past the breakers and watch the world die.
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One Response to “Rogue Wave: Permalight (or How the Future isn’t What it Used to Be)”
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Tiff Says:
March 19th, 2010 at 11:38 amThink we all have those moments where we realize life has just sort of happened… and wondering what happened to our “plans.” You’d think it would force us to stop trying to plan, but it hasn’t happened for me (yet).
Love that line… “swim past the breakers and watch the world die”…
Well, you have free lodging in Leavenworth anytime, it would get you a heck of a lot closer to the Pacific than TC anyhow
