“Blue Skies” were certainly ahead, though not right away, and not in the way he sings about on the song of the same name. Slow, drawn-out percussion and dramatic strings underscore Orville’s lush harmonizing and howling as he croons about (as he describes it) “descending back into darkness, even darker than ever before I went to rehab” before a discordant crash-out and crescendo. Rock bottom comes one night in downtown New York the summer of 2023 in the form of “The Fall,” chronicling the moment Orville knew—based on how his choices had begun to impact those closest to him—that a change needed to come, and quickly. “The lyrics are mostly about yearning for missing everything that I had lost in my life at that point: my relationship, my career, and my sanity,” he says. “But this song is also about finding the clarity that I needed to make a change, clarity that also involved healing some of the resentment I felt towards my ex and myself; this song is the turning point in the album that changes for the better.”