• Track: The Ceiling
• Artist: The Wild Feathers
• Album: The Wild Feathers
• Year: 2013

Lyrics:

Wood burnin’ up on the hill
Cedar drawer full of pills, and it’s quiet
Like snow through the trees
And I did what I did
And I didn’t mean anything

Where you come from and where you go
Who you talk to and who you know
When you’re lying in fields of green
Well I did what I did
And I didn’t mean anything

The sunrise, dry eyes, red morning
Smoke stacks, old hats, I’m still learning
I don’t know how I got this far down
Where’s the ceiling?

The sunrise, dry eyes, red morning
Smoke stacks, old hats, I’m still learning
I don’t know how I got this far down
Where’s the ceiling?

Her eyes are wide open right out of her head
‘Cause she’s cleared of a crime that she could not commit
Well I did what I did
And I’d do it all over again

I remember everything
Little girl learning to sing ’cause she’s crying all over me
Well I did what I did, and I didn’t mean anything

Her eyes are wide open right out of her head
‘Cause she’s cleared of a crime that she could not commit
Well I did what I did
And I’d do it all over again
We should be easy

Lonely is a Lifetime is available on Amazon here:

Here at the Dances with Bass den, located on a Grecian sheep farm hillside, we require a wide variety of righteous tuneage to fuel our day jobs as nerdy book editors. We often refer to our musical tastes as “genre whiplash.” Yesterday, we were bedecked in flannel and spinning nineties grunge favorites and today, we’re still rocking our flannel skivvies, but we’re listening to Americana brilliance from Nashville musicians The Wild Feathers.

The Wild Feathers formed in 2010, with each of the three founding members—Ricky Young, Joel King, and Taylor Burns—having been lead vocalists in other bands. The result is a magical mixture of harmonized vocals and songs that feature and each of the three taking turns at the mic. Their sound is a rock-country-folk mashup that really doesn’t fit into any of the three genres. The featured track, The Ceiling, starts as a country folk song but becomes a straight-up rocker while making frequent callbacks to its country underpinnings.

The band’s self-titled debut (featured here) and 2016’s Lonely is a Lifetime, are both solid, nose-to-tail records that disprove the current music industry working theory that the album is dead. It isn’t, and The Wild Feathers are out to prove just that. Your musical collection will be much improved with the addition of both studio albums. Ours was.

Learn more about the band at its official website.

Video:

Here is the official video for The Ceiling:

Here is the video for Backwoods Company, which also appears on the band’s self-titled debut:

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