Radical Face - The Missing Road

This song is an actual single, meaning it is not related to anything else. I have started a monthly mailer called "Hidden Hollow" (https://hiddenhollow.online/), and I am challenging myself to include original, non-album songs in every issue. This will give me a chance to release music freely while I'm finishing my new album, which is fun. Sometimes a one-and-done is really nice. This particular track began while experimenting with an open-tuning (DADGAF# ... for all you guitarists). I wrote the chords and melodies over the course of a day, but the words came out a few weeks later, after a read of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken". Reading it again got me thinking about some of the "almosts" in my life -- roads I nearly went down but in the end chose another -- but not in a negative way. More in a curious one, I'd say. I wrote the lyrics in one sitting later that day, and sang them immediately after. For the cover image, I decided I would paint the first picture that caught my eye on a google image search on Procreate, then I used the time-lapse of it for the video. Lyrics: Time Ticking in the back of my mind ‘Cause I know what I’ll find If I sit in place So I walk Never really sure where I’m going But it’s better than knowing What everyday will be I am who I am And I know what I know But I don’t know my way I just go where I go But I never could forget your face It finds me in my sleep And I’d like to tell you about those dreams But talk is always cheap So I go where I go That road is gone Now it just lives in this song I’ve seen all I’ve seen But I sometimes wonder If you still think of me I never meant to fade away It’s just the way I’m made I hope if you ever hear my name That it doesn’t bring you pain And just know that I know Yeah, just know that I know That those days were gold And a heart always holds Onto missing roads