B-Side Guys

Felix Raphael’s “Patience (every step feels right in time)” opens with finger-picked acoustic guitar and flugelhorn melancholy before the beat drops—sprightly, organic house rhythm that transforms intimate folk confession into something you could move to. That transition mirrors the song’s emotional arc: from “chasing the sun but found the rain” to “found out that I am right in place,” anxiety giving way to steadiness without losing awareness of how fragile that balance remains.

The Berlin multi-instrumentalist learned flugelhorn specifically for his mental health-themed album ‘DO YOU’, and that brass warmth threads through the track like exhaled breath, softening edges between acoustic vulnerability and electronic propulsion. When Raphael sings “with you my dear, every step feels right in time,” the “you” functions as anchor—partner, creative practice, therapy, whatever grounds you when breathing gets too fast. The lyrics catalog instability (“I’ve been running, I’ve been falling / I’ve been breathing too fast”) before landing on present tense grounding: “Now I’m grounding, when I’m breathing / Cause I am now breathing with you.”

What distinguishes this from typical mental health advocacy tracks is Raphael’s refusal to sanitize the ongoing nature of the work. He doesn’t claim recovery as destination but describes finding rhythm within continuing challenge. The housey production choice feels deliberate—mental health isn’t static meditation but active management, movement that creates its own stability.

Drawing from his experience in social work and watching his color-blind father create art despite limitations, Raphael built ‘DO YOU’ around comparison, acceptance, and protecting joy. “Patience” embodies that mission: progress takes time, every step counts, and sometimes the right pace means dancing through it.