FEATURES: THE GHIBERTINS “IN YOUR ARMS”
Life ahead is shorter than the life behind, but he looks forward to time in the company of family and friends. Telling stories about the glory days, playing bingo with friends, watching grandchildren playing in the front yard.
“Don’t know why but I’ve always imagined my future nephews playing on the front porch. That’s the picture I had in my mind while I was writing the song,” said the frontman, Alessio Hofmann.
In comparison to the debut release “20149-Milano” from The Ghibertins’s forthcoming concept album The Life & Death of John Doe in 2022, “In Your Arms” feels like a strong hug. The song remains the epic, affecting characteristics, depicting the serenity stage of life.
In the arms of the woman he loves, John Doe’s golden years are of love and warmth. The years they’ve been together, they stuck through the ups and downs, the worst and the best, mistakes and forgiveness. At the end of the day, they look into each other’s eyes with nothing other than love and understanding.
“In your arms is where I’m born again. In your arms is where I’ll die in vain.”
The Life & Death of John Doe is a concept album around the journey and life stories of the fictional character John Doe. From the day that he was born to the rebellious youth, to reaping his success and hitting rock bottom, to making amends and finding redemption to the golden age in love and peace till the last day of life.
“We started off writing a script of the whole story. The sound and the lyrics reflect the emotions and the age of the characters. We wanted to have a bittersweet ending, so we started to think of precise feelings that could fit into the character’s life decades. The hardest part was to connect all the songs,” The Ghibertins commented.
They continued, “the idea of a concept album may seem like a commercial suicide in 2021, but we wanted to tell a story or, even better, a journey. We wanted to portray emotions and feelings. That’s when we understood what life itself is a journey full of highs and lows, good and bad feelings.”