Feb 2022
I was in two really bad relationships last year. Both of which were controlling but in very different ways. I didn't want to be doomed to that type of relationship forever, so I've been in therapy working on myself. Now that i'm starting to see people again, I've noticed that things that probably shouldn't bother me do, I read into everything, and everything is still a little scary. this is a song about that fear
Just like that we’re in the long
I could write poetry about it but that doesn’t make it stop
Still too scraped, I don’t belong
It cancels out like times tables
I curse you to a song
Now you’re a song
You’re safer as a song
I’ve written you in pages
But they’re just representations and I’m dodging you
I duck and hide and dodge
I want to sit next to you
But something’s set me off
I don’t want to tell you that
When you’re teasing me
It still sets off alarm bells
When you walk with me
It still sets off alarm bells
When you’re kind to me
It still sets off alarm bells
And it’s hard to pay attention
To the conversation
When the smoke detector’s on
You didn’t mean to scare me you just made a stupid joke
And I come back far to heavy for some reason I don’t know
I don’t know and I can’t place
Maybe if I meditate enough
It all will go away
Don’t go away
I think I want you here
We can sit in sorry silence
And both give in to the fear
Do you hear something?
Or was that in my head
I’ve been told I make things up sometimes
Don’t heed a word I said
@berni1954 Mar 2022
Great dissection of this toxic relationship and the psychological dependency of your narrator despite that.
When I was down after a relationship break up, my Dad pointed out all the reasons that person was not right for me. I asked him: "Why didn't you tell me that when we were together?" And he replied: "Would you have listened?"
@fonte Feb 2022
Also brilliant. Chorus is so strong. Love the way the second vocal comes in and out of the main melody. Really cool song. After tomorrow I am going to check out your other songs!
@rubberbandage Feb 2022
Really pretty in a achingly vulnerable way. I love your judicious use of harmony, and the dynamics of your vocal delivery throughout. Hope you’re able to calibrate that smoke detector soon (but not disable it!) — no one deserves to be in a bad relationship.
@bootlegger Feb 2022
Love how u sung the something set me off line in the second stanza. Such great melodies here. Love that sudden stop. The harmonies. Yes. Ugh so good. One of the stronger songs from you this year. Lyrics and everything else on point. Oh man. That ending. Shit. Really great.
@sailingmagpie Feb 2022
Love how the melody line moves around in unexpected way and the ending with harder strumming and subtle harmonies. Beautiful stuff.
@prsongsmith Feb 2022
What a terrific concept for a song, and you turned into a marvelous song. That's a fantastic chorus -- love the melody and the harmonies when they come in. But what really makes it great is how honest and true it is. I really identify with "You didn’t mean to scare me you just made a stupid joke/And I come back far to heavy for some reason I don’t know" -- I've experienced that from both sides more that I'd like to admit.
@paulh1237 Feb 2022
So much that's great here - the doubling up of vocals on the 'sets off alarm bells' section. The lovely high-end to the lines like 'but somethings set me off'. I love the line "your safer as a song" and the rawness to the whole track. The vocals are amazing throughout too.
@coolparadiso Feb 2022
Well look on the brightside you are wiser and have at least one and probably more really good songs. You remind me of my fav aussie singer missy higgins. Really good song
@mattwdunn Feb 2022
As usual, brilliant. I love it when you voice opens up as well.
@songsfromcarly Feb 2022
Brilliant! You remind me of Jenny Owen Young! Great song, painfully relatable, you got this.... One day at a time :)