Can't Get Over The World

Rent The Sky

In February of 2025 I was looking for the right band to play with Crashing Wayward at Tony V’s in Everett. I don’t actually recall how I initially came across Rent the Sky. But I made it to their website and saw a video of “Divebomb” from their show at Tony V’s in October 2024 and that was all I needed. The sound, the singing, the song, I even realized I knew the guitarist Tim from working with the venue Aurora Borealis. So, I reached out in February and got them booked for the show in June. In March I saw them for the first time at Tim’s Tavern, ironically playing with My Next Planet, who I was also there to see. I noticed this song as one that caught my ear during their set. Once this compilation was moving forward, I knew I needed a Rent the Sky song for it and their new album, which was very recently released, offered several strong options, but I kept getting drawn back to “Can’t Get Over The World” and I couldn’t be happier with the punch it provides right near the middle of the track list!

Lead singer Patrick Boudreaux shared his thoughts about it: “I started writing Can't Get Over The World 14 years ago with my friend Scotty in GA. I loved the powerful chorus melody, and the lyric centers on having someone who lifts you up when the world drags you down. We had a version of the song which sounded pretty different to how the song turned out. Due to life changes, the song was put on ice for about 10 years.

A few years ago, after I'd started writing again, I pulled this song back out and re-wrote most of it to be darker. Not only did I want more of a dark setting for the verses, the world seemed to be getting darker in that time, as well. The main riff and the verses changed dramatically. In some ways, it wasn't the same song, but the core --the chorus and the bridge-- was still underpinned by the same basic music.

When I listened to the new demo I made, I thought, ‘That's it! This is what I want my band to sound like!’ I was so excited about how this song was turning out, that it motivated me to actually start to assemble what would become Rent The Sky.”