Anyway

Album: TIME OUT (2021)
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Songfacts®:

  • In the liner notes for TIME OUT, Accidentals singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Savanna Buist says "Anyway" is one of the only Accidentals songs that doesn't have a happy or hopeful message. "It just is," Buist writes. "It's a reflection of the honesty of that moment in time. No apologies. Just truth."

    The moment she is referring to is the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, which also happened to overlap with serious political upheaval, civil unrest, and destructive wildfires that cut through the coutnry. On top of these troubles, a friend of the band had their son commit suicide. The son was around the same age as the Accidentals, and the news hit hard.
  • One of the first lines that gave life to the song was "it's just another sunrise, anyway." That sentiment of existential resignation sets the stage for the rest of the song. Sometimes things just aren't going well, and during those times the best you can do is to be honest with yourself, feel what you need to feel, and accept what you can't change. That's what "Anyway" is about.
  • The Accidentals wrote the song with folk-music legend and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Tom Paxton, who was also with the Fleming Artists booking agency.

    Buist told Songfacts that they wrote the song in no more than an hour. "The words were simple," she said, "yet we spent time making sure they would speak to anyone who really needed to hear the words.

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