This February hasn't really gone as planned.
Here's my last one for FAWM 22, from me to you from right where I am today without any craft or cleverness.
Love you all FAWM fam. Thanks for being there for me even when I wasn't here for a lot of this month. Here's to '23.
xx
Edit: I popped it on tiktok too https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSewNm7kA/
I bought myself a chocolate bar for later, and I put it in a shoebox with the other stuff I’m keeping for the day it falls apart
Yesterday i got it out and ate it, cause it’s falling every day now, and there’s really nothing else to try and nowhere else to start
I think by now it’s justified
I picked up all the books that I could find and stacked them up like I was building walls with all the answers ready for the day I have the time
Then I spent the evenings staring vacant at the ceiling like the nothing’s coming closer very slowly when it’s already inside
Just checking in, that’s normal, right?
Every day I walk the dog and every day I do my job and pretty much every day I think it must be it, this must be it, isn’t it?
Every day I knit more squares in the horrible cardigan I’ll never wear and I plant some seeds so I know it’s been weeks when they show up like yesterday, wasn’t it, wasn’t it?
Every day I pray the twitter rosary and tell my friends I got the wordle in three and look at the telephone looking at me and wait for it wait for it wait for it wait for it
It must be just about time
I think by now it’s justified
Just checking in, that’s normal, right?
@kadmad202 Mar 2022
Well, here’s another song that makes me feel like you’ve just unscrewed the top of your head, opened it up, and let all those thoughts and feelings come spilling out. I watched your TikTok and it was nice to see your face, singing right into the camera, right at me : )
You are such a unique songwriter, which makes me want to come back again and again and hear more of your creativity. Glad you could give us as many songs as you did this year. I hope you have a good rest of 2022 and hope to see you next year.
@natalie Mar 2022
Oh, I'm so glad to be hearing your voice again! You were one of my absolute favorite Fawmers last year ~ I can't believe it's taken me this long to look you up this year and have a listen! It sounds like you've been going through some really challenging stuff. I'm so sorry to hear it, but I think it's really wonderful that you're able to channel it into your creativity like this. This song is gorgeous. I love the originality of having a single melody line ~ high and beautiful and solitary and unexpected, a floating accent hovering above and between the verses ~ rather than a whole chorus full of lines. So expressive and so effective! Wow!
@davidbreslin101 Feb 2022
Love that lift in the tune at the end of the verse first lines. And the hyper-articulate description of really ordinary things somehow adding up to a sense of acute wrongness. Deftly and beautifully done.
@rwhosings Feb 2022
This is the song I have been needing for the last few days.
Thanks for writing it before signing off for '22.
Love this.
@paulmilne Feb 2022
I'd buy your album... Honestly, i don't know how you do it but this is pure gold. Thank you.
@zecoop Feb 2022
It's not normal and shouldn't be normal, but I am glad you are finding ways to deal (at least somewhat) by writing incredible songs like this. What a powerhouse emotional punch, in a pretty gentle acoustic package. Lots of love from the other hemisphere, friend. :)
@tfish77 Feb 2022
Beautiful. And relatable. Raw and lovely.
@crutherford Feb 2022
this is the first song of yours i've discovered this year. it's absolutely wonderful to hear you again.
i feel what you've written here.
so so much... kinda like you're reading my mind
i thank you for sharing it.