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!

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

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