Zachari Smith is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer who lives in Montreal. He has recorded 5 albums, 2 solo, two duo (Andrew and Zachari Smith) and one with the band, The Geese. (zacharismith.com)
‘Feel It’ is a sad song. And there is a beautiful truth in it. It boldly explores the loss of an emotional sense of spiritual connection. “The light that used to ease my pain ...” Isn`t it true that our struggles or just the monotony of our everyday lives can dull our emotions and make us lose that sense of a greater purpose? The lyrics of ‘Feel It’ capture that sense of alienation that most of us have felt – but few can articulate. “Show me the days that I have missed, haunted by your last kiss. I’d take your love all again, but I can’t feel it anymore”. In the tradition of spiritual poetry, we would call this a lament. A statement like “everything is meaningless!” (Ecclesiastes 1:2) or “I can’t feel it anymore” is firmly in that tradition. The song does not attempt to resolve the uncomfortable feeling, and so never lets the listener off the hook. Yet, it is strangely comforting. Why is that? The solace that the listener feels when he hears such a sad song results from the fact that the writer has identified and entered into their experience of loneliness, isolation, alienation, abandonment etc.
The beautifully bleak and sparse production by Eric Disero fits hand-in-glove with the lyric. The sense of bitter cold and loneliness is brought out by the detuned piano and the crackling percussion and clang of the pipe hit.
We all want to be moved, to be impacted, to be awoken, to be emotionally present and alive. But obviously this is not always our experience. This lyric and music together beautifully express the cry in us for something “to pass through my skin” and touch us on a deeper level.

"Feel It"
by Zachari Smith
written by Zachari Smith (c) 2014 Acre Alley

Wheels are spinning in my head
Angel Rust is never dead
Talking to the walls of my fallen cage
I can’t feel it anymore

Danger comes and goes like time
Swimming cement pools in my mind
A moment’s time has elapsed
and I can’t feel it anymore

Show me the days that I have missed
Haunted by your last kiss
I’d take your love all again
but I can’t feel it anymore

A pill to take to ease my pain
Takes me further away
I’m grasping for the last straw
I can’t feel it anymore

I see the light shining still
I reach my hand to get my fill
but every time it slides away
I can’t feel it anymore

Show me the days that I have missed
Haunted by your last kiss
I’d take your love all again
but I can’t feel it anymore

Sit in church to pass the time
Think about the scripture lines
But nothing passes through my skill
I can’t feel it anymore

The light that used to ease my pain
Wash my hands with rain
Is standing before me now
But I can’t feel it anymore