I'm gonna be raw here for a sec. I just had my last psychophysical physiotherapy appointment for the next six months, and we went over my progress for the last year and what my key challenges and epiphanies have been, and when I left, I realised this was the first time I had stayed present for the entire 2 hours, and suddenly, when I was walking, this song which I hadn't listened to for years, was playing in my head:
I have known this song since middle school, so, 17-ish years, but just now for the first time, I felt that it described my feelings. And this is a huge breakthrough for me. Because I have never before been able to relate to a song where feelings are expressed in such a strong worded way. The moment something is too angsty, too explosive, too crude, too impolite, too explicit, or anything like that, I can't connect to it or see myself in it. But not today. I just vibed with the song in my head, and then went to listen to it, and I actually felt it in my body and emotions, or more like I felt my emotions in my body. Like "I actually have emotions that I can fully experience not just sort of look at and analyse" sort of way.
Not like "I could maybe relate to this song if it was expressed in a more sophisticated way". I just felt the song. I just related to it. I just felt like it was the perfect song for my long since unexpressed frustrations and experiences.
Not that this is suddenly going to become my new normal or anything, I would probably still be exhausted if I experienced the world through angst or such, because it's not my natural way of dealing with things, but this short experience right now felt very empowering to me. 💙
There was something kinda freeing abt being in the hipster-type bucket in 2011 bc no one asked what genres your favorite artists were (also...you didn't have any good answers lol.... 'bog water?' 'tired grass??' 'country as well'). Spotify flooded the ecosystem w sub-genres and it was better when I couldn't put my finger on a sound. Anyway. If spotify is going to tell me a band is stomp and holler mountain music, it better be.
does anyone happen to have the full lyrics to the ride of the witcher already. i need them for reasons (the reasons being that i can understand like 85% of this song and need to be able to mouth along to it)
keaneofficial: Everybody’s Changing is basically a song about trying to deal with old friendships and relationships shifting, and you yourself changing, as you go through your twenties. It’s a very transitional time in life, trying to find your place and your story as an adult. We did loads of different versions of the song - the original demo sounds to me like a cross between Radiohead and Royksopp and Erasure, and definitely rambles on a bit! As it morphed towards the final version Andy Green, who produced the album, was worried it sounded too ‘dodgy disco’....but it turned out well and we’re very proud of it.
You can listen to the demo, recorded in 2002, now. (spotify & apple).