This is a song about losing friends as you get older and how death is something constantly approaching, and that letting the light of living life in is the response we have to take to find solace in that.
lyrics
Outside of the party
How lost I've gotten
My mind my garden
I might let God in
Light
It's vibrant, enlighten, it's lost and it's truth
I'm coughing, there's coffins, with my friends, it's true
It's true, it's true
Well it's soon
It's true
This time I might let God in
I'm seeing the light
Abstract ideas in my mind
Let's have a party in my garden
Might let God in
Because I'm seeing my mind
Watch my friends gather near me
I don't want to watch them fall
See the sky
Illuminating now
Welcome to my mind
Garden
In my mind
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saw Thundercat for the first time recently - truly a GOAT of live performers. this album is him in his most honest, focused, and emotional state, and it beautifully intertwines his silly artistic voice with his stories of struggle and loss. the album is short and sweet - BUT, if you want to see him and his friends jam a little longer on these ideas, definitely see him live. the dude literally practices like Coltrane and it shows. zilla
One of the last albums to be recorded at Brooklyn's Silent Barn, a jazz-inflected soul/spoken word EP full of grace and heart. Bandcamp New & Notable May 9, 2018