The song 'It Never Went Away' closes out the documentary 'American Symphony,' and is a dip into what the artist calls 'a divine stream of consciousness' that unites him and his wife, and all creative people.
They met more than 20 years ago, as tweens at a summer band camp. They've been through so much together. And, caught on camera in the documentary 'American Symphony,' they've seen the most dizzying of highs and frightening of lows. So what message would Jon Batiste send his wife, writer Suleika Jaouad in song? A heartfelt 'It Never Went Away.' 'We've been in each other's lives since 12 and 14 years old.
'There's a stream that we dip into' when we are creative,' he says. 'It's almost like an invisible river; a divine stream of consciousness and we become the vessel, pouring that into the world. That is also what we're talking about.' But most of all, the song is an unadorned message directly to his wife, hence its simplicity, its sparseness, the intimacy of the vocal. 'It's me singing to Suleika. That's what it is,' he says.
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