"I  wrote  this  song  over  a  period  of  6-8  months.  It  started  with  a  musical  idea  that  I  couldn't  get  out  of  my  head  -  a  driving,  yet  subdued  picking  pattern  in  an  unusual  time  signature.  I  spent  months  getting  it  under  my  fingers  before  I  even  started  writing  the  words.  From  there,  I  kept  hitting  road  blocks.  I  felt  that  I  had  struck  something  worth  pursuing,  so  I  decided  to  go  about  it  patiently.  Instead  of  writing  lyrics  every  day,  I  stepped  back  and  wrote  "around"  the  song.  I  wrote  poems,  short  stories,  and  even  other  songs  as  I  fleshed  it  out.  Months  of  scrapping  lyrics,  singing  along  to  a  metronome,  and  writing  landed  me  with  a  narrower,  more  focused  vision.  In  the  end,  thousands  of  words  all  condensed  into  4  lines  that  I  felt  best  portray  what  it  means  to  me  to  be  isolated,  quiet,  and  dark." ~ Summers

Meadow Mountain