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 TITLE: Five More Minutes ARTIST: Evangeline Wolfe WRITERS: Evangeline Wolfe LENGTH: 3:37 GENRE: Indie rock, alternative country, indie folk PRODUCER: Reza Vranitzky LABEL: FREEDOM RELEASED: August 5th, 2014 From the Album: Stay Strong; Drift On
The first track on Evangeline Wolfe's debut album is one very fitting for the childlike and naive indie folk artist. The song isn't a love song, it isn't a sad song, it doesn't incorporate any sort of stereotypical theme that you might see in many other artists' songs - including Evangeline Wolfe's. No, this song is about summer nights when you're a child, and never wanting those to end, and the memory of those nights for the little folk singer. "My mom died when I was twelve," said Evangeline. "After that, my dad took me out of school and started homeschooling me, and the only other kids I ever saw were the ones from my synagogue and some of the neighborhood kids. I never went to prom or went on dates... ever. It was like when my mom died, a big part of what my childhood could have been died with her. So this song is just me remembering my life before she died. And how much I never wanted that part of my life to end."
With that explanation, listeners of the album are left knowing that this seemingly happy and simple song is actually rather melancholy and gloomy. The repetition of the lines, "Don't want to go to bed / And end this summer night," becomes more and more of a reminder that the summer night that Evangeline is talking about is actually a symbol for how good Evangeline's life felt when her mother was alive, and how she would give anything to have those nights back. "Five more minutes, please," is actually her begging god to not take those nights away from her, but she knows that she has to give them up, because twelve years later, she's writing a song about it.
The song, although depressing and grim at the core, happy a rather upbeat sound to it, almost as if Evangeline Wolfe knew that her song was too downhearted to be a good opening song for her debut album, so she tried to play up the happiness of it. The song isn't expansive or ground-breaking in any way, but neither is this album. The whole album is a very simply put together and very simply laid out. Evangeline Wolfe isn't trying to impress anybody with her songs, which in itself may be groundbreaking.
I'm not tired in the least
Five more minutes, please
The sun hasn't set
It's painting the west
Picture pretty
Hints of lilac light
But not a star in sight
Last call for kick-the-can
Please, just once again
Before I come inside
Don't want to go to bed
Don't want to close my eyes
Don't want to rest my head
And end this summer night
Don't want to go to bed
And end this summer night
Fireflies glow for us
The cricket's orchestra
The night is awake
Please, don't make me
Go to sleep
I'm not tired in the least
Five more minutes, please
I'm not tired in the least
Five more minutes, please
Don't want to go to bed
And end this summer night
Don't want to go to bed
And end this summer nightSOUNDS LIKE:
Jenny Lewis - Rise Up With Fists!!
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