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 TITLE: Stay Strong, Drift On ARTIST: Evangeline Wolfe WRITERS: Evangeline Wolfe & Reza Vranitzky LENGTH: 2:26 GENRE: Indie folk, alt-country LABEL: FREEDOM PRODUCERS: Reza Vranitzky RELEASED: January 20th, 2014 From the Upcoming Album: "Stay Strong, Drift On"
Evangeline Wolfe comes back to her fans once again with another song to grace the ears that have been so begging for something new and exciting to come their way - and although the light and cheerful world of the indie folk songstress wasn't quite what fans were expecting when they said they wanting something "exciting," they'll take it. Ms. Wolfe seems to be gearing up for the release of her debut album, which is something that every fan of the alternative country genre has been looking forward to since the release of her debut single in July of 2013. But Evangeline isn't the same independent artist that she was when she first started playing this musical game. She just recently signed on to Neveah Martinez's FREEDOM record and is now bumping elbows with the other big names signed with them, like Sonyae and - good friend of Evangeline's - Katie Coyle. So the question on all the fans' minds is: "Is our favorite little indie star really that indie anymore...? Will she still be making the same music...?" Stay Strong, Drift On is Evangeline's answer to this.
The song was co-written and produced by Reza Vranitzky, who just recently became known for producing Carmen Grant's - another close friend of Evangeline's - debut album "Mercury," and co-writing two of the songs on it. Vranitzky's ability to adapt and change her writing style to fit and help the artist was the reason Evangeline went to her for help writing this new single (many of Evangeline Wolfe's songs have been co-written by her father, Moses Wolfe, but it seems that Evangeline is trying to get out of daddy's shadow). Although it's her first single to be released under her new label, it's nice to see that Evangeline Wolfe doesn't seem to be trying to impress them by creating something new and wild. In fact, the features some pretty mellow lyrics, using the imagery of nature set to a upbeat acoustic guitar to remind people of the way that camping trips used to feel when we were kids. There's nothing fake or contrived about Evangeline's lyrics, but there's also nothing completely exciting or new. Evangeline has been very good about displaying who she is wholeheartedly to her fans since day one, and although her fans do love everything about her, they've had to learn not to expect anything mind-blowing in the upcoming album. There will be no huge Carmen Grant-type reveal in this folk vocalist.
The song uses the imagery of water to represent a relationship that Evangeline is in. We can assume that the idea for this song was Reza Vranitzky's, since it is very well known that Evangeline has never been in a true relationship before. The song starts off with "If the water's cool / I might just swim / If the sun shines right, I might be here all day." Although the listener doesn't know now that the song is a metaphor for a relationship, through a second listen, they'll start to realize that Evangeline is saying that if the relationship seems like it'll be a good one, she'll stick around. She continues to state that she'll "drift away," and that she'll be "busy lapping it up," telling us that she doesn't want to take this relationship too seriously. She wants to have fun with it because maybe she hasn't had a lot of fun in love lately, and she's hoping that this will be different. But in the second verse, she asks the water/relationship "With the tides and their little secrets / Whispering me to sleep / Would you take away my weakness? / So I can drift on / Drift on." Evangeline makes the mistake that many people make when they enter a relationship in thinking that all of their problems and issues will now be taken away because they've found somebody else to shoulder them all as well. The "tides" - or other people in her life - are Evangeline's problem that she's hoping that this new relationship will help her with because they're making it difficult for Evangeline to drift through the water. She repeats the first verse again, and then asks, "With the ripples and their stories / Cooking up a storm / Will you carry all my weakness? So I can drift on / Drift on." The tides are now starting to grow into a storm that Evangeline is sure she can't face by herself, so once again she asks the person she's in a relationship with to carry her weaknesses for her so she can fight against them. The repeats the first verse again, this time leaving out the part about the sun - because the storm that is brewing against her has completely blocked out the sun - and again she asks if her significant other could take away her weakness. "I'm not that strong / You see, I feel so heavy / Without you," she continues on to sing, completely giving herself up to her significant other and wanting to becoming dependent on him for strength in this crisis. And finally, we hear a response from the significant other, who says, "Stay strong / Drift on." Her significant other doesn't want her to become dependent on him because he wants her to still be able to be independently happy, so he tells her to continue drifting on like nothing is wrong, and that the only way to do that is to stay strong. At the end of the song, Evangeline sings the single line, "If the water's cool, I might just swim," giving the listener hope that maybe the storm did in fact blow over, and that everything is okay again.
If the water's cool
I might just swim
If the sun shines right, I might be here all day
I'd drift away
In a sunken state
I'm busy lapping it up
I might be here all day
With the tides and their little secrets
Whispering me to sleep
Would you take away my weakness?
So I can drift on
Drift on
If the water's cool
I might just swim
If the sun shines right, I might be here all day
I'd drift away
In a sunken state
I'm busy lapping it up
I might be here all day
With the ripples and their stories
Cooking up a storm
Will you carry all my weakness?
So I can drift on
Drift on
If the water's cool
I might just swim
I'd drift away in a sunken state
I'm busy lapping it up
I might be here all day
With the under current lurking
Watching sideways from afar
Could you take away
My weakness?
I'm not that strong
You see, I feel so heavy
Without you
And you say
Drift on
Drift on
Drift on
Drift on
Mmm...
Stay strong
Drift on
If the water's cool, I might just swimSOUNDS LIKE:
M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You
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