Really beautiful song. I feel like you put me right into that driver's seat in that quiet car on that dark rainy night. Cars out in front of me, people inside and yet they all just pass me by. A feeling of insignificance, in an existential way. Like knowing how small you really are and how little in the world you have the ability to control. Yet, at the same time, you can drive wherever you want to on your own accord. There is no right time or right place, or is there? I am also left with so much to think about. Where is *your* car going, where would you rather go and how would you like to get there? Very thoughtful song with an absolutely gorgeous guitar behind it all. Really looking forward to hearing your next one.

First, really dig that bass part in this and where you are putting the changes.  Second really enjoyed whole vibe and scene of this, and there are some rad lines and use of words: "Splintering lig into it's halting haziness Constituent parts" "every shadows that touches you" are a few of my favs.  Finally, I really like the questions it asks about time and whether it was conscious or not, I really like the frame of the tune "Turn off the radio When I go"

hauntingly beautiful.  such a killer performance - so intimate.  has a very faint dave matthews vibe.  the lyrics here are just amazing.  wow.  way way too many things hit me about this poetry to even begin to delve into.  bravo

Cool fingerstyle playing - I really like the rhythmic pattern.  Beautiful, poetic lyrics.  Oh I love how the tone gets darker and the lyrical pacing slows in the chorus as the night approaches -great prosody.  I really like your take on the prompt and the concept of driving through life, and the choices you make - which is so very relatable.  Lovely melody and vocals also - some really emotive intervals so nicely done.

This song is so good. Listened several times today.

cool picking! I love some of the melodic themes you created with the bass notes and how your vocal matches it at times. Some really beautiful lyrical moments here too, I mean great overall but particularly for me it's "splintering light" *swoon* and also "every car...combine and rhyme." beautiful!

Lyrics:

Above the clouds above the sky 
Office hundred stories high 
it’s a booster seat
never helps you see

what’s the weather like outside?
what’s the date? What’s the time? 
it’s a mystery 
every day and week

Chorus

I know I let you leave
Why did I let you leave? 
You were right there in front of me
Within a whisper’s reach 

Verse 

Know/no I never did things right
Rarely even said goodnight
Laid you away
Come back someday

Now I want my life to bloom  - 
Alone here in this room
I say your name
So so in vain

Chorus

I know I let you leave
Why did I let you leave? 
You were right there in front of me
Within a whisper’s reach 

Bridge 

It’ll be better when
Is a maze that never ends 
Never ever ends
Never ever ends 

Chorus

I know I let you leave
I know I let you leave?
You were right there in front of me
Within a whisper’s/ reach 

I know I let you leave
I know I let you leave?
You were right there in front of me
Yet, I didn’t speak

What was I thinking / why? / I’m so sorry 

Writer: joel daniel
Producer: Max Hart
Players: Max Hart, Joel Daniel, Eric Gardner

Double Blind

Turn off the radio
Turn off the Spotify
Turn on the way you look at everything
That passes

Every car with its windowpanes
Pressing up against the rain
Splintering light into its halting haziness 
Constituent parts

Over and over the bridge
Upward and on to the nighttime
Going somewhere
Driver beware 
Into the right time
Is there a right time
Or is the time just right.

It’s the frame of a factory
That once was and again will be
Every mile on this long highway
Could be the same mile

Every touch of the light breaks through
Every shadow that touches you
Every car in this rolling plain
Seems to combine in rhyme

As we go
Over and over the bridge
Upward and on to the nighttime
Going somewhere
Driver beware 
Into the right time
Is there a right time
Or is the time just right.

I don’t want inertia
To be my driver
I only want to go
Where I go

I don’t want momentum
To be my driver
I only want to go
When I go

Aaron Mayer Frankel
March 2, 2025

The Right Time

Echo

The trail went 
More or less parallel 
With Green Bay Road 
From Lake Forest 
More or less 
Thirty miles  
North of downtown 
 
I used to ride 
My bicycle 
On this trail 
On Saturdays 
All the way 
To downtown 
 
How can I escape? 
We all want to escape. 
How can I breathe free? 
We all want to breathe free. 
 
Well I’m starting  
to think about 
where I want to go 
and when I get there 
if I will turn around 
I don’t know 
And if I’m sidetracked 
On the ride 
It’s not a sin 
As long as I’m 
On the way 
To downtown. 
 
I don’t want to be late. 
I know it’s going to be great. 
How can I breathe free? 
We all want to breathe free.

The Right Time

Aaron Mayer Frankel

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