“Are you missing what you had like me most nights?” sings Old Dominion. The band’s new song “Me Most Nights” trembles with a wistful feeling, the past slipping through their fingertips. While they seem to be on the run from time, they struggle to accept their life. “Dreaming and scheming ’bout all the ways to get it back / Are you missing what you had like me most nights?” The question lingers in the air, faded and torn.
The acoustic-guitar drive track swirls like one million stars twinkling in the sky. “Try not to hate my life / Yeah, that’s me most nights,” sings Matthew Ramsey. That line, in particular, strikes like hot iron. Regret is a beast to conquer; you either slay it or languish in the confusion and pain.
“That idea of sitting in a bar ’cause you can’t go home, because of the echoes and memories, is something we’ve all been through,” Ramsey says in a press statement. “But there’s also the part where you don’t wanna leave your house, too. All the blame, the dumb stuff that you could’ve overlooked, but now it’s too late, and there you are.”
Listen to “Me Most Nights” below.
Photo by Mason Allen
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