Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them.
This is a song I wrote it just a few months ago as a songwriting exercise when I was trying to get myself out of a funk with writing and composition. It wasn’t a complete writer’s block since every now and then I had ideas for lines of lyrics and melodies, but I was finding it a hard time finishing a full song. So, during this month (June 2025) I was trying to discipline myself to write everyday even if it meant I would be singing and writing things that didn’t make sense to anybody else but myself or statements of no consequence or statements of consequence that some people might hear and go, “Yikes, probably shouldn’t say that out loud…” The song is aptly titled Out of Pocket.
Musically, I wanted to get a little silly with the vocals and sing in an operatic tone. I used to do it a lot when I was a kid and being f*****g annoying around the house singing loudly. This was especially around the time I was just discovering the concept of opera singing when I was in primary school and I would just be at home trying to imitate the sound that they make with their voices. Brief sidenote: I planned to play this song for the episode today and funnily enough, Rosalia released her new song Berghain featuring Bjork and Yves Tumor just yesterday, in which she sings in an operatic tone/vocals. So, I feel like I’m aligned this morning or aligned with the universe. Whatever that whole woo-woo concept is.
And for the melody, it is obviously heavily inspired by Kali Uchis’ All I Can Say with the waltz timing and also Lana Del Rey’s Shades of Cool.
Here is Out of Pocket, written on the 16th of June 2025.
250616 Out of Pocket
I’m only just like my motherBecause of learned behaviourOtherwise, we’re not reallyOf the same soul or characterI just realised that I’veOnly had boyfriends with a singularBiological brotherAnd it’s not intentionalMaybe something coincidentalOr nonsensical
It won’t hurtIf I keep some things in my headNot everything, no not everythingNeeds to be saidSometimesIt would be better of leftIn the pocketCause not everything, no not everythingNeeds to be sang
Thank you for listening to episode 47 of Every Song. Until next time.
