Away…
Tonight is a quiet night….and there’s nothing to do. No late-night meetings… No catch-up work… No pressing responsibilities to tend to whatsoever. Just pure quiet (although I can hear crickets chirping through the nighttime air and their song is capturing my attention!). Rather than waste this precious time on some unimaginative TV show that I won’t remember in 3 days, I decided to spend some time in my writing room where one of my best friends has been craving some attention from me. And when I say, “one of my best friends”, I mean my piano.
Unfortunately, my piano and I have been strangers as of late, so tonight, I thought it might be fun to experiment with playing my latest single, “Away”, a little differently than I normally do. The result is that I stumbled upon an approach that feels very emotional to me…it sounds more “moody” and more introspective. And this different approach, I think, really allows the listener to focus on the lyrics… on the message of the song.
“Away”, just one of a few true-to-life original songs on my latest EP called “I BET”, is about a moment in my life when I completely walked away from music and the pursuit thereof… instead exchanging those dreams for something that I believed (at the time) looked much more practical for living a good life. The opening line(s) of the song says:
“I went Away
For just a moment one day
But I forgot to return”
But the truth is… the good news is, in fact… I did return. I eventually returned to the dream of creating music… it just took a little while to resurrect… to reignite that small dim flicker of a dream that couldn’t be snuffed out… that still lived in my soul. And along that journey, I learned some things about life… about dreams and goals… and about myself. Maybe I’ll share some of those things in the coming weeks and months… maybe peppering in some more backstory that led to me writing “Away”. It is (I think) an interesting story.
Anyway… I really do hope that you all have been doing great. Until next time, remember to treat each other well!