Eric Pollard is an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist best know… Read Full Bio ↴Eric Pollard is an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist best known for his instrumental work in Retribution Gospel Choir, Sun Kil Moon, Low and as the leader and songwriter for his eponymous band Actual Wolf.

THE LEGEND OF THE ACTUAL WOLF: There are outlaws, and there are outlaws. Some practice the pose and cultivate the image, though seldom dirty their soft, bourgeois hands with anything actually outside the law. When they do, it is often despicable, irresponsible or just plain mundane. The Actual Wolf (aka Eric Pollard), however, is a real outlaw and has pled guilty to it. Between the bust and before the trial AW recorded a pair of EPs, each showing ‘another side of the Wolf’. It is one of the most obvious statements of existence: everything takes time, and the truly good, well crafted things in life take more than the rest. If the world has had to wait a while for another full-length release from Actual Wolf, it is only due to craft and cure.

Faded Days has been cultivated, cut and cured with the same patience as that of the grower. Written over two years in a spectrum of locations that the artist has called home at one point or another– Duluth (Minnesota, not Georgia), Brooklyn, Nashville and currently Oakland—The rich oils and aromatics– resting in darkness and appropriately aged to bring them to a perfect state. the album is subtly informed by that breadth of different atmospheres as much as it is richly colored his array of collaborators (Al Church, Steve Garrington, Jake Hanson and Jeremy Hanson) in a year-long distillation by engineer Brad Bivens in Minneapolis.

After all of that time, Faded Days is ready. Its distinctly emotional alkaloids are blissfully intoxicating, palliative and healing. And now that it is finished, a sort of finely crafted goodbye to the Faded Days of all of those other places and those people and events, it will only be a matter of time before Actual Wolf cultivates and distills the more recent days of his current Oakland existence, though who knows how long this will take: you cannot put a timeline on true craft.

Thinking Of You
Actual Wolf Lyrics

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I woke up from a dream, my body ache'n
It was a little too real, and I was wide awake.
So I thought about us, for an hour or two;
when I fell back to sleep, Baby, I was thinkin' of you.

I was thinkin' of you. I was thinkin' of you.
For an hour or two, I was thinkin' of you.

I was wide awake, with a-nothin' to do;
For an hour or two, I was thinkin' of you.

Woke up from a dream, didn't know where I was;
I was in the livin' room last night; so I thought about us.
Then I got out of bed, for an hour or two;
an' as I stumbled around the place, I was thinkin' of you.

I was thinkin' of you. I was thinkin' of you.
For an hour or two, I was thinkin' of you.

I was wide awake, with a-nothin' to do;
For an hour or two, I was thinkin' of you.

Then I tucked myself in, with you on my brain;
My body felt heavy, and it was ache'n again;
So I though about us, for a minute or three;
I'm dreamin' about you, Babe, are you dreamin' of me?

are you dreamin' of me?
are you dreamin' of me?
For a minute, or three;
are you dreamin' of me?
My body fell, for a minute or three;

I'm dreamin' about you, Babe, are you dreamin' of me?
I'm dreamin' about you, Babe, are you dreamin' of me?

Overall Meaning

The song "Thinking Of You" by Actual Wolf is a heartfelt ballad about a person who wakes up from a dream and spends the next few hours thinking about the person they love. The dream was so vivid and realistic that the person wakes up with aches and pains in their body. They spend the next few hours laying in bed, thinking about the person they love and reminiscing about their time together. Despite being wide awake and having nothing to do, the person can't stop thinking about their loved one. They eventually fall back asleep with the person on their mind and dream about them once again.

The lyrics of the song portray the idea that love can be all-consuming and overwhelming, as the person cannot seem to stop thinking about their loved one. The dream acts as a catalyst for the person's thoughts and emotions, and they are unable to shake the image of their loved one from their mind. The line "My body felt heavy, and it was ache'n again" illustrates the physical impact that love can have on a person.

Overall, "Thinking Of You" is a poignant and relatable song that captures the intensity of love and how it can occupy a person's thoughts and dreams.

Line by Line Meaning

I woke up from a dream, my body ache'n
I woke up from a dream that was so real, I felt physical pain

It was a little too real, and I was wide awake.
The dream was intense, and it kept me up and alert

So I thought about us, for an hour or two;
I couldn't stop thinking about us and our relationship for a long time

when I fell back to sleep, Baby, I was thinkin' of you.
Even when I fell back asleep, you were still in my thoughts and dreams

I was wide awake, with a-nothin' to do;
I was awake with no distractions or activities available to me

Woke up from a dream, didn't know where I was;
I had a disorienting feeling upon waking up from my dream

I was in the livin' room last night; so I thought about us.
I remembered being in the living room with you, and it prompted more thoughts about our relationship

Then I got out of bed, for an hour or two;
I couldn't lay in bed anymore, so I got up and continued thinking about us

an' as I stumbled around the place, I was thinkin' of you.
Even as I walked around in a daze, you were still on my mind

Then I tucked myself in, with you on my brain;
When I finally went back to bed, I still couldn't stop thinking about you

My body felt heavy, and it was ache'n again;
My physical pain and discomfort returned as I fell asleep

So I though about us, for a minute or three;
Even in my new dream, thoughts of you consumed my mind for a short time

I'm dreamin' about you, Babe, are you dreamin' of me?
I wondered if you were also thinking of me in your own dreams

are you dreamin' of me?
I wondered if you were also thinking of me in your own dreams

My body fell, for a minute or three;
I drifted back into sleep for a brief moment

I'm dreamin' about you, Babe, are you dreamin' of me?
I couldn't shake the thoughts of you, even in my dreams, and wanted to know if you felt the same

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