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“I already know how this was meant to end
When summers keep disappearing, disappearing into the wind…”
“I’m Gonna Miss You Like Crazy” by Houston indie rock band A Sundae Drive is your latest one-track find.
Summertime blues
“I’m Gonna Miss You Like Crazy” is a combined songwriting effort by A Sundae Drive guitarist and vocalist Zeek Garcia and his wife Jennifer Gray-Garcia (bass, keys, vocals). Staying true to the recurring theme of childhood that ties the “You’re Going to Get Me” CD together, it’s a song about “growing up and getting older and everything that entails.” Jennifer Gray-Garcia says the song was inspired by the “hazy, bittersweet memories you have as a kid; how questions don't always have answers; how there are vast periods of silence and time spent completely alone; how dreams sometimes go unrealized. Ultimately, it's a song about how growing up can sometimes be an unhappy thing but we get through it anyway.”
“I’m Gonna Miss You Like Crazy” evokes an impressive mental picture and unearths memories and emotions you may have thought were lost and gone forever.
Summertime of your life
It’s a song for every adult who still clings to that faint spark of youth blinking deep in their soul - a gentle reminder of how uncertain, frightening, carefree, boundless and alive life could once be. “I’m Gonna Miss You Like Crazy” fans this spark and makes it possible to relive those wondrous, sometimes mysterious summer days of your youth. However, it doesn’t accomplish this without exposing a grander truth, which is too vast to comprehend as a child, and too unfathomable to accept as an adult residing in or flirting with the twilight years. This unavoidable truth is, childhood is the summertime of your life. You don’t appreciate and enjoy either one enough while you’re knee deep in them and you miss them both like crazy when they’re gone. This is true whether you’re a child sitting in a classroom soon after the school year begins, summer feeling so far away, you question whether it ever was. It’s true if you’re an adult in the more advanced years of your life marking time on your front porch, comparing your youth to the elusive fireflies winking in and out of existence in the darkness that surrounds you.
Sadly, as you get older, summers don’t command the wonder or offer the possibilities they did in your youth. The magic of summer wears off with age and with it, your youth becomes as distant as the season that meant everything to you as a child. You can still experience summer and youth by proxy, through your own children, but it’s not the same. It’s like watching a movie. You know deep down, when the lights come up, it’s only pretend and ready or not, you have to move on with your life.
You can't capture summers as you knew them in a jar like fireflies - blinking souvenirs of your youth to gaze upon and cherish at your leisure.
Capturing the moment
“I’m Gonna Miss You Like Crazy” is about as close as you can get to preserving these distant moments in time. It offers a living snapshot of these moments accented by Zeek Garcia’s brooding lullaby-like delivery of vivid, palpable imagery usually reserved for literature, but just as much at home in rock and roll music when done with heart rendering precision as it is here. You can hear, taste, and feel summer in every note and thoughtfully crafted phrase. You relive that inevitable moment when summer and youth slip through your fingers and flutter just out of reach forever. Zeek’s extended guitar solo punctuates this menacing lullaby with an eerie finality. It’s a taunting reminder of how as a child you wished your summers and your youth would never end. If only they both could linger like the guitar solo which draws you in and holds on tight as if to caution you to appreciate the finite moments and hold onto them as long as you can. “I’m Gonna Miss You Like Crazy,” brings summers past and childhood spent all back home, whether for good or bad. It offers you one last chance to capture these moments in a jar and preserve their long, lost blinking splendor.
Click here to listen to “I’m Gonna Miss You Like Crazy,” in its entirety.
A Sundae Drive is Zeek Garcia (guitar, vocals), Sergio Cano (guitar, vocals), Jennifer Gray-Garcia (bass, keys, vocals), and Mike Medina (drums). To hear more music from A Sundae Drive click here.