About the music
Darkness of Your Love
Written by: Jess Yaffa
Darkness of Your Love was a meaningful song to me from its inception. I was home alone one night and I was in a funk. I was listening to “Sign of the Times” by Harry Styles and felt this wave of emotion – everything from sadness, to connection, to optimism, and I went to my piano and started playing this song. It just sort of came to me as a feeling that I think we all can relate to when you can’t quite understand why your feeling opposites. Happiness, melancholy, discomfort are all mindsets that intertwine to form a being that is almost indescribable. This song became a way for me to express the inexpressible in a way that I knew other people could relate to. The verses spilled out of me first and then automatically fit with the chorus. I knew that there was room in the bridge to experiment, so I used how I felt to make something more inexplicable. The “Ooooo” section in both the verses and the bridge were meant to add a haunting feel and to give a lingering sense of holding on to someone or something. I felt a connection to the lyrics and that love that is expressed within the melody because of the optimism that is sensed within the music. Darkness of Your Love is describing the indescribable and showing the change of a situation that can evoke so many different emotions in a person and is an experience that is relatable to all. Love, by nature, isn’t dark. It can be beautiful yet complicated.
Sundays Are Gone
Written by: Jess Yaffa
Sundays Are Gone represents a new day and a love for something new. I started off writing this song with my dad one night while he was playing the guitar in our living room. The chord progression just spoke to me and I took a voice recording on my phone to remember it. A couple of days later, I got this hook stuck in my head of “Sundays are gone, its time that we move on”. After that, the chorus and the verses just kind of came together like a puzzle and I sat at my piano for a couple of hours and realized that I had created this story. A lot of people have asked me what or who this is about, but I just tell them it’s a general anthem about moving on and growing up. I like to think of Sunday as a day of relaxation and recuperation, and when its over, Monday comes and it’s off to the races with a new week. Sometimes it’s that way in relationships or situations when you are in a state of happiness and comfort with someone or something and one day you wake up and feel completely different and ready for change.