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This is the record’s first song featuring Jack alone with his acoustic guitar, something he also indicates that there’s more of in the above “Making of...” video. This particular hushed tapestry, a love song about his wife, Kim, swiftly but softly lulls its way into the mood of whatever private, moonlit patch of Hawaiian paradise with the cooing Pacific in the background that he wrote it from, unabashedly reflecting on his lady’s immutable charms.
TRACK 5: Enemy
More of Jack and his acoustic axe, but layered against ambient tinkles, warbles and simple melodies. This is an introspective song about letting go of malignant ideas or influences and moving on, and seemingly alludes to shedding some crap from his own past—and perhaps his vicious 1992 bail on the legendary Banzai Pipeline that cut his budding career as a pro surfer short, specifically. Another half-hummed, half-crooned apologia.
TRACK 6: If I Had Eyes
Opens with the first classic, perky-but-mellow Jack Johnson riff of the record and builds towards an equally classic Jack bridge. The lyrics seem straight from the same playbook as well; according to Jack, the song “...came from me telling my son that if he drank too much soy milk he was going to grow a tail and it would have an eyeball at the end.” Catchy and sun-baked with a contemplative message that burns in slowly, it’s easy to understand why this familiar groove was first out of the Universal Music gate.
Click here to watch the music video for the first single off of Sleep Through The Static
, “If I Had Eyes”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVmbGsEtmFI
TRACK 7: Same Girl
More Jack solo, doing some trademark moaning and mmm-mmm-mmm’ing about the fact that his lady keeps him balanced and grounded.
TRACK 8: What You Thought You Need
Kicking off at a petal-soft shuffle and then blooming as the band’s layers tuck themselves in, a gentle, uncomplicated and vividly woven ode to lingering with your lover instead of hurrying back to the hustle of the real world. Jack’s love-tethered take on “Life’s a journey, not a destination,” delivered with sultry sincerity, is straight up and sweet: “It’s all for the sake of arriving with you.” If this song won’t convince your lady want to make love out in the great outdoors, she’s just not into it, man.
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