A simple yet haunting track, the song kicks off a new project by the Smith’s climate action organization Pathway to Paris
“I was thinking a lot about students and the school shootings. … There were so many, so many names, so many forgotten souls, so many terrible stories,” Smith said of the inspiration for the song in a. “I went into my bedroom with my ukulele and wrote this song. There is a line that says ‘one should have been more than enough,’ and that is the line that is the most about the shootings. The whole thing is really just about the general idea of observing our behavior as individuals and collectively.
Clocking in at eight minutes, “Legacies” is a spare affair, recorded in December at New York’s Electric Lady Studios. It opens with a quote by the late Carl Sagan that Smith said is about “reminding us of our responsibility to Earth and the cosmos above.”Michael Stipe’s next song will also donate proceeds to Pathway to Paris: “Drive to the Ocean” is set to drop January 4th, his birthday.
his first music since R.E.M.’s 2011 breakup, back in September. He previously debuted both songs at a Pathway to Paris event in spring of 2019.with cellist Rebecca Foon to host events where artists and scientists discuss climate change.
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