Vast Difference cover art

Vast Difference

  • Songwriter:
    • Dan Wentworth
  • Albums:

    This song is about the push and pull between science and faith, and the growth that lies on the far side of challenge. Either can aide you or hold you back. What is one to do? The message of this song is that I find it best to preserve relationships through challenging contexts over clinging to our mental models. The song is suggesting that it is probably best to edit the model, rather than trying to change the people around you.


Lyrics

Emptiness plagues us
Science betrayed us
I feel the witness
Failing to resist
Closer with each step
I’m racing to my death
I’d rather die than to 
Feel this in time I...

In time... Jesus weeps
It takes a tragedy to build some harmony
The soul must feel disease to build immunity

What they did was jaded it faded
They didn’t save it they ate it
Wasted away our lifeline in time...

Space grows between us
Faith has betrayed us
Strange how we resist this 
Dying existence
I’d rather die than to lose you 
In time I
Drift past our last hope
Breathe as we let go

In time... It fades away
You take away the pain it still remains the same
It takes the light of day to chase the night away

What they did was jaded it faded
They didn’t save it they ate it
Wasted away our lifeline in time...

Recording Notes

This was a song I had practiced many times with a band I was in prior to solo recording. I think that led to me having a fairly detailed idea of where things should go. It was a bit hard for me to record the bass and program the drums, emotionally, because I missed having the musicians from that band (RED).

I did write these drums and the bass line. I really don't know that I would be able to reproduce their original parts as they were both extremely talented and specialized in their instruments. However, as far as what I am capable of, this is a decent representation of the song as is.

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Date added to this archive: February 2026