Taste Test: Geoff Gibbons wonders about life with new song, ‘Making Sense of the World’
The Vancouver folk staple questions life and the meaning of it all with his new song.
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With the evening news reporting the latest tragedy every single day, you begin to question what life really means. Are we trapped like mice on a wheel chasing the cheese we’ll never get? Are we destined to wander aimlessly with no real purpose? Vancouver’s folksy troubadour Geoff Gibbons collects such existential thoughts on his toe-tapping new tune. With “Making Sense of the World,” adorned with a thin layer of percussion and flittering acoustic guitar, Gibbons allows his every thought to float as gently on the breeze as seedlings from a dandelion. “Use to wonder ’bout the stars up there / Sit and ponder on the old back stair / Tried to count them once, but it ain’t fair / ‘Cause there’s just too many,” he sings, opening the first line to his emotional gravity. But he soon realizes that it doesn’t matter how many stars there are, in the end. What matters is living and loving and embracing the people and things right in front of our faces. Those’ll be what get us through it, assuredly.
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