Synth Single Review: “Your Eyes’’ by Stacy Gabriel

Stacy Gabriel's Your Eyes explores diminished trust following a broken relationship. The song starts as reverberating bass moves with cloudy synth drifting in misty waves. Softly shining notes join Stacy Gabriel's emotive vocals as the smoothly intertwining notes hover and the drums pulsate.

The vocal melody is full of remembrance and ache as Stacy Gabriel captures the lyrics’ shattered emotion. Ethereal notes levitate as the trickling synth undulates and the bass creates a flowing support. The panpipes slip past as Stacy Gabriel delivers the melancholy in the words and the panpipes exhale with breezy lightness.

I enjoy the way in which Stacy Gabriel engages with me through his vocal expression. The panpipes move like morning mist as the wistful vocals slip past. In the distance, the lithe synth flashes with peaceful tranquility as the drums pulse while the panpipes dance.

Stacy Gabriel's voice holds loss, along with fear for the future. His distorted voice wanders as the panpipes breathe out with hazy luminosity and elevated notes sparkle. The drums cruise along as the lead synth shines and the bass adds a dense upwelling before the song ends on arpeggiating notes exuding radiance and the drums softly touching.

Our storyteller says he wasn't thinking straight when he "bought this fare for the overnight train." He says, "I saw them waving their flags" from his seat, but for some reason, he didn’t care. He adds, "There's no turning back, like the smoke from the stack, it's all up in the air." He feels that he made a mistake and wonders if he should wait for the last stop.

The narrator says, "When I look in your eyes, I see life’s greatest highlights." He sees stars there too, but "something doesn't feel right." He points out that the song’s subject is everything he could have hoped for, adding, "I think I feel alive but afraid you’ll fuck with my life."

Our storyteller says, "I regret what I said when we laid in your bed, I wasn’t thinking straight," and despite seeing the song’s subject "waving your flags right in front of my head," he still took their bait. He figured he’d learned lessons he'd been taught "but I guess not." Instead, he’s "living my life like the Day of the Dead," and he isn’t sure if he’s alive, despite feeling alive.