Jack DeMeo has experienced that moment that strikes you like a thunderbolt and rendered temporarily breathless from the crushing weight of realizing you’ve hit one of the low ends of your life. His song “Don’t Look Up” has a great line that captures this sensation perfectly: “And you dance around the truth until it hits you in the gut/You don’t know you’re at the bottom until you start looking up.” Has anyone that’s lived sufficiently long enough and possessed of a keen self-awareness not felt that deeply? The beginning of the song is so spare with mostly DeMeo’s vocals and acoustic guitar but as the song builds synth swirls elevating the mood even as the lyrics point out how maybe you never learned the skills and capacities, psychological and social, to prevent yourself from the kind of headspace from which it seems impossible to bounce back. And yet, in the writing those words and singing them, DeMeo is more than suggesting it is possible to come back and that we must even in our darkest times. Watch the creative music video below or listen to the song on Spotify and follow DeMeo at the links provided.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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