
(I vehemently disagreed here!) Anyway, the song was written for her. I guess she thought being positive and seeing the best in people was a bad trait to have. She would later tell me I romanticized too much. I tend to romanticize everything, even people who hurt me. I wanted to remember my love for her in a positive, romantic light. That was quite hilarious.Ī few months later, when she left me for another man, I wrote the song about that moment. When I went back to the car, my car was very hot, and the phone had shut off due to overheating. We ended up spending an hour or two just talking and making out. I thought I was just going to kiss her goodnight, but I didn’t. I left my iPhone in my car and had the heater turned up. One night, somewhere in Kirkland, I kissed her under a black sky and a white moon. I wrote the song for a Spanish girl I fell in love with in Seattle, Washington. There’s also a tree there, because he lives in the Pacific Northwest. He’s the mastering engineer behind the song, “Black Sky, White Moon.” It was taken on July 4th, so you can see smoke from the fireworks near the moon. The picture was taken and processed on film by David Gavrishov. Can you tell us the story behind the song’s title and thumbnail? The thumbnail of the song is a crescent moon that seems to have been imaged by your team. So, it won’t just be romantic and mellow folk rock music.ģ. I ONLY HAVE A HUNDRED YEARS TO LOVE YOU will also include-surprise, surprise!-a hard rock, screamo song. As an Anberlin album should.” I would say the same thing about myself. He said something along the lines of, “The album has many genres on it. And one of the things their lead singer said years ago stuck with me. In any case, I think being versatile is a good thing. It certainly doesn’t take away from them (at least, I don’t think so!). I think being a writer makes me hyper-fixated on lyrics. How does your varied artistic abilities intersect to help you find and compose your sound? You wear several hats as a musician, song-writer, multi-instrumentalist, novelist and poet. I think I’m mostly a rock musician even though I enjoy other genres and sub-genres as well (pop, folk, indie, etc).Ģ. Guitars, electric and acoustic, with fat bass and thick drums. Which genre do you feel most rooted to and why?ĭefinitely rock. Your songs range from alt-rock to folk music and sometimes even defies genres. ‘Maybe there’s truth to loving that which we hide’ is a glistening pearl of wisdom from the song that stuck with me.ġ. The artist uncovers the healing effect of love and casts light on how loving someone in the purest way can help you find your way to loving yourself and everything around you. The autobiographical song explores the art of loving someone – with strokes of care, colors of compassion, gushing verses of love and rhythms of patience all enveloped in a landscape of kindness. The song reminds you of the charm old-school love that was born with the cosmos and shares its age and wisdom. The artist employs lyrical metaphors that beautifully tie into his personal memories of love and light.

Mikheyev uses alluring acoustic guitar melodies that compounds the charm of his husky vocals.

The song is a part of his debut album ‘I Only Have Hundred Years to Love You’, the song balms your soul with magic of love and the celebration it brings with it. The Russian-American, Los-Angeles based alt-rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, novelist and poet, Moses Mikheyev, is back with his new single Black Sky, White Moon.
