Loss is a difficult and personal thing to process; it is different for everyone who experiences it, and we all experience it sooner or later. And if there is a silver lining to be found amongst such pain, it is perhaps that we can emerge from the experience as a more well-rounded, more aware person, and our view of the world is never quite the same- better, more enlightened, more mature.
Having reconciled decades of unresoulved grief after the loss of a best friend, Garrett Anthony Rice has turned his experience into a gentle and gorgeous pop-rock song, ‘Going Up (To See Him),’ a lilting and lovely, dream-soaked musing on the idea that even with your loved ones no longer physically in the world, your memories of them and the impact they had on you, how your life, your world was better for them being in it mean that they are never truly gone. Physicality is only a small part of who and what they were.
Unobtrusive beats, soulful guitar licks, and heavenly harmonies act as the perfect sonic vehicle for such a song of love and loss, the missing and memory, the bittersweet reflections of a best friend. And as such, the song itself is just another beautiful epitaph to them.
They often say that death is hardest on those left behind, but sadness and pain are not the only side effects; eventually, those pass, and what is found in their place is something positive, poignant, and powerful. This song is one small but important part of that legacy.
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