Conceptually, this is a different take on the song "Unresolved" but with a more positive, upbeat feel behind it. That particular set of lyrics just sort of hung around in the air many days for me this year.
"She na na hey" is supposed to be a sort of nonsensical, cathartic chant from many souls enduring shared misery but surviving.
I didn't want just my own voice on the track, so I posted an Instagram video with the chant and asked my friends to send me recordings. Only two friends partook (understandable, it was a weird ask in the first place, and it's hard to sync up with the video without duplicating background noise). Nonetheless, it was so much fun cutting and pasting their voices all over the song. After a couple of weeks of tinkering, I decided it needed a little more vocal, just to glue the backing section together, so I found Isbeth777 on Fiverr and her additions worked out great.
lyrics
She-na-na-hey, she-na-na-hey
She-na-na-hey
As we sit here
In our own spaces
Like patients waiting
On some good news
Checking my memory
For friendly faces
Spend a minute
In someone else's shoes
Find the positive
At least we try
Opening curtains
For some natural light
You carry around
Such a heavy weight
So much like you to try
To hold it all together
Even when you need
You need to cry
When you carry around
That heavy weight
Still have to live your life
How you hold it all together
Even when you need to cry
She-na-na-hey, she-na-na-hey
She-na-na-hey
When you need to cry
She-na-na-hey, she-na-na-hey
She-na-na-hey
When you need to cry
She-na-na-hey, she-na-na-hey
She-na-na-hey
Then you need to cry
She-na-na-hey, she-na-na-hey
She-na-na-hey, hey, hey
She-na-na-hey, she-na-na-hey
She-na-na-hey
She-na-na-hey, she-na-na-hey
She-na-na-hey, hey, hey
credits
from Un,
released June 4, 2021
Written by Travis Charles Hagan
Backing vocals by Kari Brandt, Traviss Thomas, and Isbeth777
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