Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine

Today's song is an instrumental song by the band Explosions in the Sky. It's titled Your Hand in Mine and is from their 2003 album The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place. They are a post-rock band, playing almost exclusively instrumental music, from Austin, TX. For most of their songs they use 3 guitars and a drum set.

This song is probably one of the band's more famous songs. A shortened version of it was featured in the film Friday Night Lights, following the inspirational half-time speech. It starts out with a single guitar, and throughout the song the two additional guitars and drums come in and fade out. I've always had a thing for songs with good vocal harmony, and after listening to this song quite a few times I think I may just have a thing for songs with good harmony in general. Most of the band's songs have harmonizing guitars, and I think this song especially is a good example of it.

There are no lyrics in this song, but I think there is still a lot of meaning to the song. In my mind the song conjures up a very strong feeling of hopefulness. I think this was probably their intention, as that is how the song was used in Friday Night Lights. I think the song title, Your Hand in Mine, is the idea of two people who care for each other, hand in hand, saying "we can do this." No matter what "this" is, they know they can accomplish it, and that is the great sense of hopefulness that I think this song brings about. For me, the biggest realization of this hope is between 6:09 and 7:48.