‘The Drought Is Coming’ by Andy Smythe is a haunting piano and string ballad by the singer-songwriter that urges awareness in the face of apathy and ignorance. Its lyrics are a foreboding, ominous lull that attempt to bring this sense of awareness about climate change & the state of the world. This in an attempt to pull us out of depressing, spiralling apathy.
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‘The Drought Is Coming’: Awareness Over Apathy
‘The Drought Is Coming’ uses its tremulous strings and repetitive phrasing to tug at the listeners emotions. The soundscape feels like it pushes against a numbness that has become a sore part of us, the part that is dormant and pushed out of feeling anything.
“…The drought is coming, the Earth is cracked & burnt…
…(But) man has ceased to care…”.
The narrator addresses this apathy, after conjuring familiar imagery to stir something, some empathy for the situation we all find ourselves in.
“…The drought is coming,
Your dreams are lost…
…For your greed, for your loss,…
…But the harvest fields are gone…
…Keep praying for the storm…”.
‘The Drought Is Coming’ highlights how platitudes and words seem like inaction driven by apathy in this context. Its addresses this sense of powerlessness that feels triggered by imagery of raging forest fires and weighty exploitation.
All that we can hope for is that something brings “….some mercy to my door…” in the face of all of this. But the narrator urges us not to believe this deceptive “truth”.
In its refrain, ‘The Drought Is Coming’ by Andy Smythe dares to hope. Hope that this apathy will fade in the face of some awareness, in the face of this emotional appeal. An appeal that urges us all to come together to save the only home we will ever have.
“…Time to listen to our hearts….
…To trust a hope so faint, time to listen to the same…”.
This makes the ballad a poignant listen that hopes to be heard.
The Artist
Andy Smythe has gained recognition as one of the UK’s most intriguing singer-songwriters. His writing style is both eclectic and quirky, infusing elements of English folk and traditional pop traditions from Roy Harper to the Beatles.
He’s also a multi-instrumentalist and composer in the vein of Rufus Wainwright.
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