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.
I am sick again. So, my voice has been incredibly used and abused and inconsistent the last few weeks I’ve started recording this series. So, today, I’m only going to be playing one song. And It’s one that is quite special to me.
It’s a song I wrote when I was 15 years old as a way of - and I didn’t know this at the time - manifesting something magical to happen to me. A magical escape, a magical meet-cute, a magical new adventure. Back then, the word manifesting wasn’t a thing, it wasn’t widely used, so it was more like wishful thinking, I guess.
Funnily enough, there was a conversation that Antoinette and I had when we were teenagers making music, about how sometimes we would write sad songs about heartbreak and things that didn’t particularly apply to us at that time. For example, we would get some kind of inspiration from a tragic situation on a television show, but then one day that situation would start happening to us. This was a time before social media and all the online discourse around being careful with what you say and being careful with what you consume - and before realising that that kind of woo woo manifestation stuff is somewhat more powerful when done through music. I mean, I’m trying not to believe in that stuff these days, but it was hard to deny.
This song is about a meeting people along your journey, with whom you may not have that much in common with in terms of worldviews and backgrounds, but still being able to help each other escape some harsh realities and create happiness together - or at least help each other get a step closer to happiness before you both go along your own seperate ways.
This is Don’t Know Who You Are, written on the 8th of June 2006.
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Come into my lifeFly away with your imaginationShy away from your devastationsMake your way to the shoreI’ve been standing hereI’ve been waiting way too long
I don’t see what you seeI’m lost, I’m gone afarI can’t feel what you feelI don’t even know who you areWho you are
Move away from your lifeAnd come with meIt’ll only take a whileSail away from the shoreA new beginningI think I’ve seen this all before
Thank you for listening to episode 18 of Every Song. Until next time.
