For World Mental Health Day, Reverend and the Makers‘ co-songwriter Ed Cosens shares a new song on the theme. In the lyrics for appropriately named ‘Black Dog’ – an extended standing metaphor for melancholy – Cosens refreshingly tells it exactly how it’s. “I find myself wasting half a day waiting for the black dog to go away,” emphasizes the relentless nature of psychological well being struggles. ‘It’s nearly waking up and feeling in that darkish place the place you are feeling unable to operate,’ he says.
The track was accomplished at a songwriting retreat earlier this summer time hosted by the Buddy Holly Foundation. The fairly acoustic guitar shuffle and heartfelt lyrics ship the message actually, and easily.
‘I’d had the concept for some time after which I began writing with Janie Price, who works below the
title Bird,‘ he says. ‘We sat down for half an hour and wrote together, chucking ideas down, and it all came together quickly. It was a really cathartic process.‘
Cosens hopes Black Dog will help ‘start a conversation’ and unfold psychological well being consciousness additional. His forthcoming second album presents a equally quick number of traditional songwriting as 2021’s debut Fortune’s Favour, this time exploring into extra private territory for inspiration. Details to be introduced quickly
