Aim For True
single
Aim For True
In 3/4 time at a steady 117 BPM, ‘Aim for True’ turns the act of creative struggle into something you can actually feel in your chest. The lyric ‘the hand still shakes, the work’s not done / you let it go and start again’ lands with the plainspoken weight of a John Hiatt confession, and the chorus hook earns every repeat through sheer economy: two words, no argument. The production balances drive and restraint well, keeping the mix clear even as the arrangement fills out, and the waltz meter gives the whole thing an inevitability that suits the theme. A highlight, and one of their more immediate offerings.
Lyrics
A line is drawn and then another Each dissolves into the other Tension keeps a quiet fight Between the meaning and what's right
It's never clear the play's the thing When endings come before beginnings
Spells and incantations A call to some old muse Silent remonstrations Talent disabused
Aim for true Aim for true
The margin fills with its corrections Each draft rewrites its own intentions You reach to name the thing you meant And lose it in the argument
It's never clear the play's the thing When endings come before beginnings
Spells and incantations A call to some old muse Silent remonstrations Talent disabused
Aim for true Aim for true
Maybe the point was never to win it Only to start and stay inside it Strike the chord and let it catch There's nothing here it has to match The hand still shakes, the work's not done You let it go and start again Not to be perfect Just to be true
Spells and incantations A call to some old muse Silent remonstrations Talent disabused
Aim for true Aim for true
Aim for true Aim for true
Credits
Songwriter: Michael Anthony Rose