“Rain” (Kate Vogel song) – Queen City Sounds and Art

KateVogel_Rain1_crop — Kate Vogel, photo courtesy the artist

Kate Vogel uses the metaphor of the weather for struggling through tough times on her single “Rain.” With an intricate guitar figure and a doleful tone intermittently swelling and fading in the background, Vogel sings about the conflicting internal and external messaging about where she comes up short and how that affects her sense of self and who she is. Maybe the song isn’t about being in a state of depression but it does capture the sense of how every little setback emotionally feels like a disaster and you feel precarious and tender and when you can have a period of peace you feel like maybe you can make the effort to better your life one of those setbacks will put you into a bit of an emotional tailspin. But the tenor of the song is not in one of those heightened states of anxiety, it’s in the lower point when you can remind yourself to be patient and do your best to make the best of what seems the worse. The line “Don’t know when those storm clouds will roll away, but til then I’m just dancing in the rain” embodies the fragile grace one is best served with maintaining while the emotional storm is going on and often it is just enough. Listen to “Rain” on Spotify and follow Kate Vogel at the links below.