We have but one life to spend on this Earth. Only so much time to see all we long to see, experience all we can of what life has to offer, and only so many days to share with those we love. But the life we long to lead and the one we end up leading are rarely one and the same. Life has a habit of getting in the way of living; the daily grind taking precedent over the adventures we always dreamed of. The soft folk arrangement that opens ‘One Day’, the latest track from The Greatest Endangered Thing, has a wistfully bittersweet quality to it. Speaking of adventures to be shared and time spent together as some fading ambition slipping away like sand between your fingers. The last vestige of a romantic yearning just barely clinging on. But then that bright hopeful piano tone kicks in, followed soon after by the comforting swell of strings, and suddenly the whole atmosphere of the track transforms. What began as a distant dream now feels like a promise, a heartfelt vow that the “one day” you’ve both been holding out for is closer than you think. That life you long to share, the memories you long to make together, it’s all there for the taking.