Lee DeWyze - Castles (2019)

Singer-songwriter Lee DeWyze offers a wistful, bittersweet look into the past through the stop-motion, paper-craft world of his new music EP, "Castles". Lee DeWyze's "Castles" is a song about the past. Keenly written with reflective guitar tones and meditative rhythms that feel redolent of childlike innocence, it offers listeners a window back to memories and feelings thought long gone.

"'Castles' is a bittersweet thing. When people grow older, I think they know that the truth is that they can never feel exactly how they felt in these memories again. That feeling that your worries were so small and the world was so big and exciting. It still is, but when you're younger, it feels like the world cares so much about it. When you get older, you realize that you're not the only fish in the pond and that it's up to you to get by. I think everyone longs to have those feelings again. They long to feel that naive and free-spirited again—where, for some reason, everything seems to be okay in the end."