Paging Doctor Moon utilizes a delicate, jazz-like arrangement on “Scars” to deliver a song about yearning for connection. The instrumentation glides along and then rushes together in the moments of elevated emotion throughout the song for an effect like an indie pop equivalent of Steely Dan. In the vocals we hear what for some might be the familiar thoughts of making life harder for yourself because of how you’ve had to cope with the struggles in your life. But there are also lines about needing help with overcoming one’s own barriers. The lyric “I wanna see you for who you are/so you have to break through these ancient scars” speaks to a self-awareness of habits that maybe you don’t always have the ability and will to break because at some point in your life they served a purpose of protecting you from shoddy treatment, at least emotionally. It’s a short song at three minutes one second but this existential struggle gets a fairly deep examination set to a song that creates a musical setting to ease the process with a breezy tone that honors the motions through which your brain goes when trying to reach a better place after years of self-conditioning to get through an often challenging life. But the will to trust and to seek honest connection runs deep in song’s words and its expansive spirit. The animated lyric video for the song by Luke Paulina, Giuliana Fox and Danielle Powell both illustrates the complexity of emotions expressed in the song and also how setting one’s own words into the physical world rather than keeping them in your head can often be a map to sorting through the mess. Watch the video for “Scars” on YouTube and connect with Paging Doctor Moon from Pittsburgh, PA at the links below.
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