TRACK BY TRACK: Times Of Grace Dive Through 'Songs Of Loss And Separation'

The Burden Of Belief

The Burden of Belief is about struggling with faith, struggling with the idea of something and realizing that it's not what you think, and dealing with that loss and that grief that you go through when you've got to struggle and wrestle with changing your mindset or changing the core of who you are - because you realize that it's not what you thought. So, it's like the death of the past. Finding slivers of hope, though, with redemption and realizing that even though things aren't the way that you thought they were going to be, or you've had a shift in your worldview or a shift in your perception: you're going to find your way through it. There's always going to be redemption. There's always a sliver of hope.

Mend You

Mend You is about letting go. It's about self-realization. It's about getting rid of toxic emotions, dealing with a situation that you can't fix. So, it's about mixed emotions, confusion, and then the beginnings of a realization of that time when you start to pull out of that chaos, and that darkness, and betrayal really - and re-establish yourself, find your spiritual identity, or recover from spiritual heartache. Or, if it's a relationship, just betrayal, infidelity, that point where you realize that you can't fix this and you've got to find a way to move forward.

Rescue

Rescue is a direct result of the song Mend You, where it's about: you've recovered, you're recovering, you're finding your feet again, you've moved past that dark toxic part of your life or a relationship or whatever the case may be, and you've found a new life, a new raw, unbridled passion, new love, security, shelter, finding that person to walk through the flames with you. And in finding that hope is intact and you're going to make it through somehow, even if it's difficult. Because coming out of any dark situation, coming out of any toxic situation - it's never easy.

And there are things you have to continue to work through and look at and re-evaluate. So, it's about that journey, rescuing yourself as well as finding somebody who is helping to rescue you. The power of love, the power of new love and redemption. 

Far From Heavenless

Far From Heavenless is about exposing the hypocrisy of organised religion, the darker side, the underbelly, the things that go left unsaid or get covered up. It's about people of faith talking about a God of love and then preaching damnation and judgment upon people. It's about struggling to find your way in faith and what can happen, the backlash of what can happen when you question these things that are put in place.

Bleed Me

Bleed Me is really just about depression, about feeling alienated, that hopelessness and that weariness that comes along with depression. And that desperation of just wanting to feel something or just to feel different than how you feel.

Medusa

Medusa, first and foremost, is about betrayal. It's about the idea of being seduced into a situation or a relationship where things aren't as they seem, they may seem exotic and beautiful and strange and enticing, and then you realize that it's affecting your heart, it's affecting your soul. As the song says: 'Turning my heart into stone', draining of one's life force, and then turning that energy through self-realization into self-empowerment. Self-love, using anger righteously to pull away and to sever ties and, again, to find redemption. It's really just about that deepness inside you, that inner warrior that you're not going to give up. You're not going to let this person, or this situation drag you down.

They're not going to affect you. And you're going to move forward and find your strength. 

Currents

Currents is a, sort of, dark fantasy, looking at the ocean and the current and wanting to become part of that ocean and that current - and being able to relate to the pulling out of the tide, and the pushing back in and being smashed upon the rocks. It's almost like romanticizing what death could be, or the release, longing for some type of salvation out of this cycle. This seemingly endless cycle of craziness and darkness and depression.

To Carry The Weight

To Carry The Weight is about regret, really. Losing somebody to suicide. The people that are left behind wrestling with the loss. And how do you carry on? How do you find closure with that situation? It's one thing to lose somebody, but when it's suicide, it just has this other level of difficulty to really sit with and try to find answers to questions that you weren't able to ask. And it's about friendship. It's about death, obviously, and just the mourning of losing a loved one.

Cold

Cold, again, is about loss. It's about losing a loved one. But I feel like it's more about memories and about the beauty of somebody finding some solace in their memories. And as much as there are things left unsaid, it's different when it's a suicide. It's different when it's something super tragic. But I guess, that being said, it really is about losing somebody too soon and being numb about it, and having to process that and feeling helpless, being at a loss. It hits everybody differently. Loss is such a complicated thing. But I think there's a real beauty that's interwoven into the lyrics where it feels more like a tribute to somebody, a beautiful tribute. I guess that's really what it is. A tribute to losing somebody and realizing how much you loved and cherished them.

Forever

Forever is about...it's about abuse. It's really written from the point of view of somebody who is the abuser. Someone who's obsessed with somebody. Someone who's sick and possessive and sort of a stalker. And they don't have love in their heart, it's more about evil intentions and what you can get out of that person. The whole idea of like: 'if I can't have you, no one will'. It's really just this sort of dark fantasy being played out, a twisted vision of what love is supposed to be.

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Songs of Loss and Separation is out now. To stream the album in full, check it out below.