Synth Single Review: “Tomorrow” by O.a.G.

by Karl Magi

O.a.G.’s “Tomorrow” is about waiting too long to say the things we need to say. The song begins as an undulating bassline moves while echoing vocals carry with a hushed delicacy. A synth carries a melody full of palpable affection as levitating notes hover above the springy underpinnings while Wesley Reid’s performance captures mingled need and loss as the background glides.

Wesley Reid’s voice climbs with heartbreaking emotion while the tentative melody touches me with its intensity of feeling. A steady underlayer adds form while reverberant vocals caress my ears and a fragile melody hovers. The vocals embody the emptiness and regret that permeate the music while the foundation throbs and smoothly glimmering tones glow like a sunset. The synth melody is full of aching tenderness while radiant tones flicker, and Wesley Reid’s voice trails through the music with softness and caring before the song slips to an end.

Our storyteller says that he and the song’s subject find themselves “worlds apart,” with no apologies and destroyed dreams. They are lonely in the icy silence, “in the wreckage of what was lost.” He wonders if they could try again because “I won’t wait, tangled words, what’s left unsaid,” and tomorrow words will be meaningless.

“No hope remains, no love, no sound, lost between the lines, faded and left behind,” as the cold quiet leaves them alone “in the weight of an empty room.” It feels like a waste of time as cracks begin to show and the narrator asks, “Is there something we need to say? Don’t wait another day,” because they are living on borrowed time and “we never know, but regrets can’t save today.”

As the song ends, our storyteller points out that time will not wait for unspoken words or “truthful words said much too late.” He adds, “No one is listening, we keep resisting, no words, no sound.”