Story & Song: Traceless
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Hello lovers! We've been busy writing and releasing new songs and videos! We hope you don't mind. :) If you don't have a Valentine, put on some Mayberry Wine and dance around with your bad self. Or come see us play MadLife on Feb. 13! Tickets available here. We just released Traceless this weekend and couldn't wait to share it with you. In joy! The story behind TracelessBy Steven Glude Where did the idea for Traceless come from?Believe it or not, sacred 13th-century poetry. I get a lot of lyrical inspiration from books I read. What inspired the lyrics?One of my favorite Rumi poems begins with this passage: My place is the Placeless,
My trace is the Traceless,
‘Tis neither body nor soul,
For I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away,
I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
I really felt what Rumi was saying about flowing and how taking a random path doesn’t leave a trail: My place is placeless
My path is traceless.
Open up the door to body and soul.
You already know how to flow
What’s Traceless about?I wrote this during a time when I wanted to do things differently. It’s about surrender in a lot of ways—surrendering to love and letting love drive you instead of trying to control it. That’s why the air breathes you, the song sings you. For example, If I conceived a poem, would it read you out loud when you’re all alone? How the song came togetherThe reality is Traceless is just four chords—A, E, D, and B—albeit my versions of them, which means there are 6s and 9s thrown in. But it came together very quickly. I guess you could say this song sang me. Fun fact about TracelessTraceless is one of the first Rumi-inspired pieces I wrote. It was part of a trio of new songs I sent to Kristi soon after we met that included Must Be Love, which was also inspired by Rumi, and Stay.
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