“The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs” is the lead single from Wye Oak’s fifth studio album of the same name. The song was released on January 30, 2018.
[Verse 1]
And we were jubilant, willing to pretend
We were not losing time, time wasted
Like any other day we will make the bed
Thinking it is dead, it is finally dead
[Chorus]
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The quiet is ours, the work has begun
The louder I call, the faster it runs
[Verse 2]
I search for patterns, sense that isn’t there
You can have everything, and still you have nothing
So I take them all apart, then I put them back
Sometimes it takes a long, long, long time
[Chorus]
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The longer the day, the nearer the sun
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The quiet is ours, the work has begun
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The longer the day, the nearer the sun
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The quiet is ours, the work has begun
The louder I call, the faster it runs
The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs was written by Jenn Wasner & Andy Stack.
The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs was produced by Wye Oak.
Wye Oak released The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs on Fri Apr 06 2018.
This song is about the human tendency to need to find order in chaos, and to try to assign meaning to things that are most likely meaningless. Buried within the title is a double meaning, a sort of psychological litmus test. When I conceived of it, I thought of it as “I’m trapped in one place, but t...