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This week’s Post Track Tuesday was severely delayed because I found out about something that made me mad, but that’s a good reason for me to listen to this week’s track. also, the music video is irrelevant to this post, but it IS pretty neat. This Tuesday, I’ve decided to share FTSE’s Tidal Wave with you all. While this song (and it’s music video) may have been released on June 19th, 2013, I associate it with the fall of 2015, and my first semester of Engineering school. Since I was kind of into FTSE at the time, you may see more  of their work in this feature going forward. The chorus and general mood of this track reflected how I felt at the time; I THOUGHT I had more or less recovered from a tough bout of depression, but in hindsight, I hadn’t. I was all vocal parts in this track, and even the relationship I got into towards the end felt very temporary and fragile. Between my own insecurities and some discoveries about why he decided to date, I knew that it was more of a matter of when he’d break up with me, rather than if. I am Very Glad that I’m not 18 anymore, since it was not a fun time, lemme tell ya. Something I really, REALLY want to point out is that the song itself also reflects tidal waves and the ocean pretty well, like how the recurring keyboard riff that starts the song goes up a run slowly and cycles back to the bottom, or the sort of cresting shape of the notes in the melody, with the final note of a phrase stretching out like the wave rolling back into the ocean. I hope this brings you the sort of peace someone might feel watching waves coming in and going out on a beach beneath a cloudy, white sky.

In fact I thought the trader was reading my mind because at the same time I was thinking to send him an email about the same topic.   Either way, one of us is reading the other's mind.  Alright, let's get started.

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