Explosions in the Sky Day 3 Lyrics

day 3's goal was to write an ambient song. when we decided on this, each of us mentally envisioned a droning, s___ious, blurred soundscape. we didn't write it together: one person laid down the minimal keyboard drone, then the next person would come in, listen to what the first person had done, then record something over it, then the next person, etc. (we all had multiple turns). after a while it became much more busy and more atonal. as we all listened and did the preliminary mixing, it began to remind us of insanity, of going crazy. someone remarked that it reminded them of the unplanned time we spent in syracuse during our very first tour in december 2000 (when our van broke down and we ended up spending 8 dementia-filled days in the freezing attic of some guys we had never met before, who were kind enough to let us stay there; we all truly entered into some form of lunacy or another during those 8 days). someone else remarked that we should watch the videotapes that we filmed during that time in syracuse. and sometime during that viewing, we made the connection that we could add some audio samples to the song, so we did.