Beryl tangles with personal regrets with one’s life choices and choices in relationships in “Bad Joke.” The song begins with a spacious and open sound, percussive guitar chiming and with an impressive subtlety of layering and shifting dynamics the song progresses into a more full sound as the lyrics get to thoughts of feeling trapped by a flood of thoughts and memories in a way that will happen to you when the crush of your regrets pile up in your mind and the realization of all the wasted time you wish you could get back from pursuing things and people that didn’t make your life more fulfilling but rather left you feeling empty and confused in the end. At the end of the song the vocals repeat “Take it back” in rapid succession amid a wave of distorted sounds in a recursive loop like a mantra to oneself to not be defeated so much by your ghosts but cast them aside and reclaim the time you have left rather than give it away to the things you regret and spend it on experiences and situations that nurture your spirit. Beryl released its new EP Paint the Walls on October 25, 2023.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
You must be logged in to post a comment.