I (Kierstyn) wrote “Spark” a little over a year ago because, like most of us, I’ve been in relationships that fell apart. Many times, it’s not just one person’s fault. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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“Spark” is about when you know a relationship is going to end but you still have a desire to save it. You are hoping in vain that the good things that brought you together will be enough to overcome the character flaws that are pulling you apart. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You still love the person and see the good in them, but it isn’t enough. For whatever reason the relationship is toxic and needs to end, and there’s a part of you that knows that while there’s another part of you still in denial. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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My intention when writing “Spark” was to leave the listener with more questions than answers. I feel as songwriters (especially Christian ones), we are often too quick to give easy answers, but this is a situation where there is no painless solution. To leave the relationship would be painful, to stay in it would be painful as well. Even though it's a difficult situation, I wanted to make the music have a hopeful tinge to it-- to show there's hope for a better life on the other side of a broken relationship.
lyrics
{Verse 1}
I was stuck in a landslide
Maturity has never been my strength
Especially when faith was losing me
I did what I could believing you’d never finally leave
{Verse 2}
You were inside your own mind
The fantasy was airbrushed perfectly
You’d look up and you’d see the real me
{Pre-Chorus 1}
Hit the reset, take back what you said
I’ll learn to forget, I regret wasting all your time
Building memories, raising the stakes in between two lives
Close your eyes, imagine:
{Chorus}
Just a little spark could take the pain away
Our fading ties deprived of meaning
And if we stack up all the reasons
Why our bond should be okay
We’ll reach the clouds but we’re still bleeding
{Verse 3}
We were stuck in the driveway
Tempted to press play on broken tapes
We’d reach all the same spots in our mistakes
Hit the reset, hoping to skip the pain
{Verse 4}
Oh, will I change?
Or do you think I’ve lost the desire to move?
The good is still the same from what you knew
{Pre-Chorus 2}
Hit the reset, take back what you said
I’ll learn to forget, I regret every empty vow
Made sincerely, broken as if we’ve forgotten how
To lay our lives down
{Chorus}
Just a little spark could take the pain away
Our fading ties deprived of meaning
And if we stack up all the reasons
Why our bond should be okay
We’ll reach the clouds but we’re still bleeding
{Bridge}
Could we remember, selectively treasure
Choosing the good, the blind, the easiest thing
Disguising with passion the emptiest mansion
Lost in reaction, always dreaming, dreaming
Give me up
Imagine...
{Chorus}
Just a little spark could take the pain away
Our fading ties deprived of meaning
And if we stack up all the reasons
Why our bond should be okay
We’ll reach the clouds but we’re still bleeding
{Bridge}
Could we remember, selectively treasure
Choosing the good, the blind, the easiest thing
Disguising with passion the emptiest mansion
Lost in reaction, always dreaming, dreaming
Give me up
credits
released June 19, 2020
Zoetic is:
Emma Voron - Vocals
Kierstyn St. John - Instruments
Zoetic is the jazz pop fusion project of multi-instrumentalist Kierstyn St. John and vocalist Emma Voron. They are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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