Album: Wheels Of The City (2019)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Unrest" is the first single from Colorado-based The Drunken Hearts' third album, Wheels Of The City. While the Americana rockers had the goal of writing a new song each day for inclusion on the album, the older song took the lead. "I wrote 'Unrest' quite a while ago, at least as far as song lives go - probably around 2011," Drunken Hearts vocalist Andrew McConathy told Songfacts. "It started out as a country ballad type of thing, but once we got into the studio with Tim Carbone [of Railroad Earth], ultimately morphed into a piano-driven rock song topped off by a very psychedelic, Pink Floyd-esque bridge. Tim helped me with some thematically appropriate lyrical adaptations and additions, as well as laying down the rollicking piano throughout which really tied the room together."
  • The narrator is a restless spirit who tries to forget his past so he can have a future. "Before I die, I want to learn to live," he sings.

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