Melancholic and sombre with a rawness and emotional core that grips you from the first chord being strummed, Sam Lumar’s majestic ballad “Counting On Me” is bound to pull at your heartstrings. The song goes deep into concepts of loss and death, perfectly capturing that indescribable feeling of sheer fear you have when you think you’re going to lose someone. It’s a painful and plaintive track, one that’s bound to elicit some water works out of you when you’re going through it. The way Lumar sings that chorus line and the final arrangement cascades on top of you is a sheer exaltation of catharsis that washes over you and cleanses the pain you’ve gone through till then.
It takes you on a journey, an emotional ride that has you feeling all kinds of things before you’re left entirely awash and renewed by its closure. Far from an easy listen in theme but a delectably pleasurable one sonically, “Counting On Me” is a pop rock ballad done exceptionally well.