“Open Open” by Rainsford is Like the Conversations in Your Head Taking on the Failures in a Relationship Not All Your Own Before That Realization Hits

Rainsford5_sm — Rainsford, photo courtesy the artist

“Open Open” finds Los Angeles-based songwriter Rainsford trying to make amends for mistakes in a relationship that ended. She sings about the classic refrain about wishing she could go back in time and not break promises and fix all the mistakes made and hard words spoken in a moment of duress. But her echoing vocals sound for all the world like the conversations you’ve had with yourself, punishing yourself for how things have gone bad despite your intentions and not wanting to accept that sometimes its not enough to apologize because the other person has simply had enough of you and your ways no matter what overtures you make, no matter your sincere expressions of love and acknowledgments of wrongdoing. It sounds like the ways you’ve convinced yourself endlessly that your earnestness and energy should earn you another chance because how bad could your mistakes have been. But as the song winds down into a repeating low end melody it feels like acceptance of the inevitable and the sadness of the realization that your efforts are for naught, your wishes amount to little and maybe, just maybe, the failure of the relationship wasn’t all about your own failures and shortcomings and that your making them so had a part to do with it having no chance of reconciling. It’s a self-aware, trippy pop song and all the more effective because it is so. Listen to “Open Open” on Soundcloud and follow Rainsford at the links provided.