Singer Josh Kiszka was inspired to write the lyrics to the song while watching an ice cube rise and fall in his drink at 2 a.m. at Hollywood’s Sunset Marquis hotel one night in 2019.
The movements of the ice made him think of a favorite philosopher, the late British theologist Alan Watts, who described human existence as a kind of ebb and flow.
“That’s what I saw in the ice cube,” Kiszka tells Rolling Stone. “That’s what ‘Ah Sri Rama Jayam Ram’ is about,” he adds, quoting the song’s mantra.
Greta Van Fleet recorded the follow-up to 2018’s “Anthem Of The Peaceful Army” in Los Angeles with producer Greg Kurstin; the group’s second full length record debuted at No. 7 on the US Billboard 200.
You can hear “The Battle At Garden’s Gate” in its entirety here.
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