Everything about this Nashville singer-songwriter is great. His voice is crisp and his music is refreshing. The guitar accompanies the lyrics instead of the other way around, and the sound is relaxing. Kiernan McMullan recently caught up with us and took us behind his song “Intermission” and explained that it’s not your typical love song. You can check out the story and listen to the song below.
Background
“Intermission stems from a lack of realistic relationship songs. Personally, I like to keep my love songs to a minimum. But when writing this EP I wanted to try and show that the idea of love is a little more complicated than pop culture makes it out to be. I tend to take the approach that, as a guy in my 20’s, I haven’t done enough mistake making and learning. It seems almost foolish to think that the person you’re dating at 20 years old will stay with you through every stage of your evolution as a person. It happens rarely and it’s a beautiful thing when it works, but just because someone leaves you doesn’t mean you should assume they’re gone forever. I’ve loved and lost in my life, and years have passed before I meet that same person and realize how much we’ve both grown. It’s showing appreciation for having time apart. I guess the real point is that you never know, but where would we be without a little hope?”
“Intermission stems from a lack of realistic relationship songs. Personally, I like to keep my love songs to a minimum. But when writing this EP I wanted to try and show that the idea of love is a little more complicated than pop culture makes it out to be. I tend to take the approach that, as a guy in my 20’s, I haven’t done enough mistake making and learning. It seems almost foolish to think that the person you’re dating at 20 years old will stay with you through every stage of your evolution as a person. It happens rarely and it’s a beautiful thing when it works, but just because someone leaves you doesn’t mean you should assume they’re gone forever. I’ve loved and lost in my life, and years have passed before I meet that same person and realize how much we’ve both grown. It’s showing appreciation for having time apart. I guess the real point is that you never know, but where would we be without a little hope?”
Lyrics
It’s sinking in, a little complicated. I can’t get you off my mind again
I’m way too old and far too jaded, to ever let it pull me in
Who better than me to have to tell you that this may not work out?
I’ll give you a minute to think about it. Let it be our intermission
We jumped right in thinking true happiness was in the same place that our hearts were then
What started off, with no doubt, became a phase we’d live again
Like a broken bottle on a drunken night you moved back out to the ocean
Where was I supposed to go?
If all it takes is a call or two at 4am when my voice is filled with alcohol. Please come over
Why do we do this to ourselves? Is it impossible to imagine that one day maybe it’ll all work out
but right now it feels a lot like crashing
So here we are, apparently we’re wiser, but we’re still making the same mistakes
Until I start to remember exactly how here eyes made it all go away.
Focus in just to turn and run. You’ll probably need it when the lights go out
Is this the end?..the big finale? Is it stupid to be hopeful now that this is just an intermission
