the ongoing Journey that Ren is allowing many of us to follow him on has just been this
refreshing immensely healthy introspective thing for me not only in my in my music and
how I how I continue to change the way I look at making music but in just life in general
and I don't think I don't think I take enough time to
think about certain things I don't think I take enough time to think
I think a lot about certain things and not as much as I should about things that really
matter and Ren you are you are helping so many people do that by not telling them to
do it by showing them by example artistic example I'm looking forward to enjoying this
with you
[Music]
thank you
[Music] my life [Music] it's hard to take off from the ground when your wings are cut
your stomach burns when you're drinking from an empty cup you know the entire ocean came
from Matia Ducks I see the world through Fibonacci sequences and double dutch I guess there's
some that's born lucky but some that's not I tried to cut away my bitterness Hatchet
job I lock my youth inside the trunk inside the pickup truck then dump that whole thing
over that same Bridge tonight you jump I think about that sometimes vividly what it felt
like to look down and see Tranquility one sudden movement in the world of possibility
only one movement to expose our fragility I [ __ ] miss you and I miss myself I miss
thinking we were indestructible as hell I miss chilling by the pier cave and kicking
back with Callum You Go Justin Sega Stevie in the [ __ ] Lads I miss missing that I
know myself to close the gap I never even call them up distances my plaster cast and
tell the truth the day you jump my childhood jump to but I still can't find an angle all
I find is missing you might not miss you with all my Rhymes a picture running five minutes
quicker I'm right on time a picture pulling you back over the edge and then we're crying
and holding you my brother and telling you that it's fine not the way that it worked
I was late like a jerk there's not a day where I can find a way to break from her your body
missing so we never got the wave to the hers I hope you're listening I love you man I miss
you absurd [ __ ] [Music] thank you [Music]
[Music]
another Domino it falls across the way another's born how you're supposed to raise a child
and give it Courage from a storm in a world that is confusing contradictions pave our
flaws some will say we're only human others judges for our flaws some get born in sheets
of sight some get by and tired clothes some will die before they live that's just how
the story goes but for those of us still with us who reside inside our hearts tell them
proudly how you feel
I was watching um another video of of rent um just yesterday called Dear God and um he
just alluded to it here and um
my wife and I struggled uh several years ago we had two back-to-back miscarriages and he
had a line in that song that that said something to the effect of of you know why why do some
die before they're even born what's what's the purpose in that as as if he's talking
to God in that particular song and he just he just alluded it's again again here and
hearing someone else Express something through through the music and relating to that pain
there's something that gets answered even though it's unanswered some will say we're
only human others judges for our floors some get born in sheets of sight some get by and
tired clothes some will die before they live that's just how the story goes but for those
of us still with us who reside inside our hearts tell them proudly how you feel
and for those of us who aren't freckled Angels stand strong freckled Angels Live on freckled
Angels climb higher Freckle Angels still Inspire freckled Angels won't forget you teach me
to live my life better 13 years and still I miss you now my wings are missing feather
otherwise I'd come and join you but for now I'm here on Earth stuck inside this Mortal
body but for everything it's worth mainly braver made me wise Made Me Stronger made
me true made me face the world with courage and that's all because of you [Music]
thank you
freckled Angels laugh the hardest and their hearts they are the largest with their wings
they fly the farthest so I know you're gonna be okay freckled Angels live the longest and
their minds they are the strongest oh their friends they are the fondest so I know you're
gonna be okay
I want to go back and talk about um some neat neat vocal things I heard here uh but how
he brought us from from the struggle and and and the depths to reminding us which he's
done for a while about freckled angels and the
the spots the imperfections the
things that that we often look at as uh it's getting in the way of perfection are the very
things that make us not only who we are but but better and what I love about Ren is that
his voice his performances embody that there is such a lack of pursuit of perfection uh
he is he is so fully in the moment so fully connected to what he's saying I love the beginning
that Jeff buckley-esque falsetto e stuff that he's doing here and and the air and the rasp
that comes through the vibrato I've talked about a lot of this on other Ren and now vocal
analysis so be sure to check those out if you if you want but I just want to play this
again and enjoy it
[Music] I
he's doing a wonderful job of of going like into his head voice and dancing around and
then coming down into his chest voice and you can't hardly tell the difference because
of the way that he's using his two resonance he's blending he's mixing in a really really
neat way and with all the intervals that he's interacting I mean don't even started on his
piano playing but this this kind of mixing this this Jeff buckley-ish way of singing
I've always loved it I like that he started out with this sort of cryptic dark sound that
he's accenting so well with with this Blended resonance [Music]
see chest [Music] head to chest
[Music]
so cool
it's hard to take off from the ground when your wings are cut your stomach burns when
you're drinking from an empty cup you know the entire ocean came from Matia Ducks I see
the world through Fibonacci sequences and double dutch and Iran's word smithness is
is just just amazing like I've gone into a lot of his back catalog lately and and and
realizing that I mean even even videos from seven eight years ago he really has an incredible
way with words musical Wordsmith one of the best I guess that's something that's born
lucky that's something that's not I tried to cut away my bitterness hot job I locked
my youth inside the trunk inside the pickup truck then dump that whole thing over that
same Bridge tonight you jump I think about that sometimes vividly what I felt like to
look down and see Tranquility one sudden movement in the world of possibility only one movement
to expose our fragility I [ __ ] miss you and I miss myself I miss thinking we were
indestructible as hell I miss chilling by the pier cave and kicking back with Callum
Hugo Justin Sega Stevie in the [ __ ] Lads I miss missing that I know myself to close
the gap I never even call them up distance is my plaster cast and tell the truth the
day you jump my childhood jumped to but I still can't find an angle all I find is missing
you man I miss you with all my Rhymes a picture one in five minutes quicker I'm right on time
a picture pulling you back over the edge and then we're crying and holding you my brother
and telling you that it's fine not the way that it worked I was late like a jerk there's
not a day where I can find a way to break from her you brought me missing so we never
got to wave to the hers I hope you're listening I love you man I miss you absurd [ __ ]
[Music] thank you [Music]
[Music]
[Music] I like those those stops in there
desperate hard to do uh but I like the difference in contrast between the first time and and
this time he's he's bringing us from cryptic and Confused to processing right musically
and that's what he did with the lyrics too we were we were confused and contemplative
and regretful and now he's he's beginning to ask the bigger questions but he's he's
foreshadowing that with the way he's playing and the way he's singing and that's all of
this goes together this is why this stuff is so impactful fits together so well it's
not just about hitting the right notes it's not about writing the right lyrics it's how
they go together
like that technology Falls across the way another's born how you're supposed to raise
a child and give it Courage from a storm in a world that is confusing contradictions pave
our flaws some will say we're only human others judges for our flaws some get born in sheets
of sight some get by and tired clothes some will die before they live that's just how
the story goes but for those of us still with us who reside inside our hearts told them
proudly how you feel
and for those of us who aren't freckled Angels stand strong freckled Angels Live on freckled
Angels climb higher Freckle Angels still Inspire freckled Angels won't forget you teach me
to live my life better 13 years and still I miss you now my wings are missing feather
otherwise I'd come and join you but for now I'm here on Earth stuck inside this Mortal
body but for everything so come and join you line
and the way his disposition changes in his performance
um from teeteri to Resolute right like here's all these pains everybody struggles in their
own unique way I'm here I'm here for myself I'm here for others forging ahead and the
way the music follows that is just brilliant in its simplicity and realism it's worth mainly
Brave made me wise Made Me Stronger made me true made me face the world with courage and
that's all because of you all right
foreign [Music] Angels laugh the hardest and their hearts they are the largest with their
wings they fly the farthest so I know you're gonna be okay freckled Angels live the longest
and their minds they are the strongest oh they're friends they are the fondest so I
know you're gonna be okay
enough said