"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
- Oscar Wilde
The fourth single release from Michael Barber’s full album, AHAYWEH, is a rock/rap fusion titled, Sinners and Saints. The song rides through pulsing drums with a lead melody from an acoustic guitar that matches Michael’s vocal deliver.
The song is a double edged sword from a lyrical standpoint. It is about finding your way through life with night, or after midnight, as Barber states in the song, is the bad, and when the sinners are out, and day being when the saints are out. The two are not mutually exclusive however, and often the same people can be both a sinner and a saint.
Lyrically, Michael is pacing us through the night as we "run through dreams put down by quitters…" The picture painted is clear, and the mood is dark.
The hook arrives as the guitar changes chords, the temptation of what makes a bad night good comes into a singing chorus. Sinners, strippers, smokers, and burning down the night. The words were written by Michael, but are sung by British rocker, Jacob Sky from Imaginary Vagabonds. (A label mate with Michael within Sycamore Music Group.)
The second verse showcases why Michael is a crafty MC when it comes to writing out bars. He captures the essence of exactly where the listener should be as far as running through a night full of sinners.
“The freaks come out at night the thieves come too, your right the tweaks on high, they increase they heights you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? you ever ran with the rebels just to rebel in the night? you ever yell at nothing just to yell at something? yells like hell yeah cause hell yeah they coming maybe you, you should start running...”
The first single from the album, Quiet War, was endorsed by President Trump, and that song really spoke to a direct audience. An endorsement on that level is huge, and as great as Quiet War is, this is the best overall song that has been released from the project.
The full album, AHAYWEH, can only be purchased as a hard copy right now via Michael’s website, but each of the 17 songs will be released online as a single over time. You can order the hard copy at www.MichaelBarber.org
Stream Sinners and Saints below:
https://youtu.be/RF1zmRxdkMY
For more on this artist check out:
http://www.abnewswire.com/pressreleases/president-donald-trump-endorses-rap-song-titled-quiet-war-by-michael-barber_221756.html
http://www.14news.com/story/38330439/evansville-native-endorsed-by-president-trump-for-song/
