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Another busy day at work, then straight to the Twins home opener, so I didn’t get much of a chance to post this yesterday. Here it is, now, though!

This is the title track to my second, shorter, instrumental album. Starting back in college, I started to notice that people would use the word “yet” when I would have said “still”, and it got me thinking about the differences and similarites between the two. To me, “still” gives an indication of continuity, of some ongoing event. Whereas, to me, “yet” feels almost opposite, implying an ongoing wait for something to occur. For example, we’re still driving in the car; we haven’t arrived yet. And yet (!) the two words are fairly interchangeable. (We’re driving in the car yet; we still haven’t arrived. Though the former useage feels more “natural” to me.) But it doesn’t stop there: each word has other meanings, as well: “still” can mean motionless, or calm. “Yet” can be used in the same fashion as “but”.

So the name “Yet Still” can have a number of different interpretations, and though I tend to think of it as meaning “But Calm”, the interplay between the two title words gives it a deeper meaning that I’ve never fully grasped, though in some way I can feel it.

As for the song itself (if you’ll pardon the length of this post) I had the title (for both song and album) long before the song was even written. In fact, I knew what I wanted the song to be: a calm, peaceful, slightly haunting melody, but short — and coming into a crescendo at the very end. I knew what the song was, but no notes ever came to me for the longest time. And then, finally, there came this:

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