Raibard - Postscript (2026)

This song started out as the beginning of the middle movement of Daniel Gil’s baroque trio Three Little Wizards II. Wizard of the Whispering Winds. Daniel tuned his guitar like a viola da gamba in order to write idiomatically for the instrument. Upon writing the intro, the melody and progression and lyrics for Time, quite literally popped into his head. So the song has a baroque sensibility about it, which is augmented by a simple ostinato guitar part augmented by a series of cascading delays in a secondary guitar part. Time, because it’s rooted in a time long gone but implemented in a truly modern way, has a timeless feel to it. The lyrics deal with the loss of youth; becoming middle aged.t starts with a pointedly critical verse, “Time, is not on our side . . .” This is in opposition to The Stones classic lyric, “ Time, is on our side.” I What happens when you reach the age when you realize time is not on our side anymore? When you realize that life is fleeting, and that you may never reach where you wanted to? The song is basically about finding hope, even though and precisely because things haven’t gone the way you want.