Our Feet Don’t Touch the Ground [guest post]

Hey everybody, this is Douglas from The Wrecking.  Some people have been asking for some background on our new song “Our Feet Don’t Touch the Ground”.   It is currently being considered for the New Moon soundtrack.  (if you have not heard it yet, feel free to listen and download for free here).

This has quickly become one of my favorite songs in our setlist. The name of the game with any song is for it to SOUND to the listener like it FEELS for the band to play it.  Getting lost in a song can be an amazing, cathartic experience for anyone who is willing to take the journey.  This song is like that for me every time we play it.

Without giving too long of a story, and hopefully without stealing a listener’s ability to make their own connections and interpretations for the song… here goes.  “Our Feet Don’t Touch the Ground” was inspired by the life and death of an uncle of mine.  This man’s walk on earth was far too brief, but at the same time there were many times in my life and in the life of my brother Darren (drummer) when we would get the feeling that this person was almost out of place in this world.  Living life with an unspoken longing for the way things will make sense on the other side… in the arms of God who sees the past, present, and future all at a glance.

The outro, “Oh Love only you can save US now, Oh Love only you can save ME now”, is the prayer offered up as the threshold between hospital bed and eternity was finally crossed, mixing victory with heartbreak in a way that is nearly impossible to describe without music.

The connectivity to Twilight was brought to us by some friends who heard a strong connection in the sound and content of the song, with the feeling and path of the books as well as the first film.  True love carries some very clear qualities with it wherever it is found: sacrifice, endurance, selflessness, trust, joy, pain.  Edward and Bella find themselves in the midst of love and all its tell-tale traits.  How they navigate in and through their relationship obviously resonates in a big way with our generation and culture…as it should.

Darren and I have since spent a lot of time talking about the first film.  We both loved it from both an entertainment level, as well as the way that it explores the question of why something fallen or evil would want to be right and good.  To us it sounds like a deeply relevant and spiritual question to be asking ourselves every single day.

Blessings.
Douglas
-the wrecking