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Silhouette Shadows: Meaning of the song
From the Indigo Park press release:
“The album closes with “Take a Light Strain,” a sliver of soft-rock introspection that was inspired by a dream Hornsby had about his father. “I had this amazing dream, woke up in deep tears…. I dreamed I stood in the square room for a while. Then the door opens, my dad dressed in style in a white suit and matching shoes with a big smile and outstretched arms.”
“Hornsby describes the dream as “a seriously real visitation.” “It happened a couple of years ago and I’ve never quite gotten over it – I had to make it into a song.” When he did, he discovered that to match the title’s message, he needed to create something streamlined, plain. “I told myself, ‘I’m just going to write something that I could have written 35 years ago.’ I used one of my father’s old country phrases – his way of saying ‘don’t worry about it,’ take it with a light strain… It’s an homage to my dad – and hey, it’s also beautiful advice.”