Kina Grannis
Write It In The Sky - Kina Grannis (Official Lyric Video)
updated
LA - Aug 24 @ Teragram Ballroom
SF - Sep 7 @ Great American Musc Hall
los angeles show in 2 days and san francisco in 2 weeks! it’s go time and i’ve got the nerves to prove it 😬 all jokes aside i am very excited to share some space with you all again after so long. ❤️❤️❤️ feel free to leave me a pep talk in the comments haha 😅
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singing our song "everything" with my sis emi grannis :)
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my mom, the one and only mama g, has bone marrow cancer and needs a blood stem cell transplant to save her life. she currently has no donor matches, so we are doing everything in our power to search the globe to find her one! joining the registry is quick and easy, and can be done in most countries in the world.
my mom is the actual light of the sun manifested in human form. she has more energy and effort and love and creativity than should be possible for any one person to possess, let alone such an adorably tiny one. her main goal in life is to spread happiness, and she fulfills this every single day. she is our everything. she has so many more drawings to draw, people’s days to make, projects to dream up, cookies to bake, grandchildren to meet. please help us keep her here.
ways you can help:
1. head to https://linktr.ee/kinagrannis to get a free swab kit sent to you. swab and return asap!
2. share this message far and wide! in most countries it is free and easy to register to become a bone marrow/blood stem cell donor. the more people around the world that register, the more lives will be saved. we have listed some helpful resources on our page for international folks.
3. if there’s any way you think you could help, please reach out! our brains are admittedly not at their best at the moment and we’ll take all the support we can find ❤
some other things worth noting:
- my mom is japanese and therefore has a better chance of matching with someone who is also japanese. if you know anyone with japanese blood, please pass this along! (that said, her perfect match could be anyone of any race, so ideally everyone under the sun gets on the registry!)
- AAPI folks (as well as other people of color) are underrepresented in the bone marrow registry so it can be MUCH harder for them to find a match. let’s fix this!
thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of our hearts. let’s find #AMatchForMamaG ❤
background song: "i never wanted anything more than i wanted you" - kina grannis
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Kate is one of my favorite people on earth! She is one of my favorite voices, songwriters, and also one of my very best friends. If you don’t know her already, I am so very happy to introduce you at long last. Check her out below!
Kate McGill in all the places!
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Kevin Garrett - Coloring (Kina Grannis + Kate Mcgill Cover)
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before starting ivf, the idea of it was crushing to me. i deeply wanted to believe that it would be possible for us to conceive naturally, and involving modern medicine felt cold and sterile and somehow less magical. but as time went on, my heart broke one too many times, and eventually i knew i was ready. i also knew if we were going to take this path, the last thing i wanted was to feel like a victim. as someone surrounded by friends and family getting pregnant with ease (and as someone with a needle phobia!), this was easier said than done.
but life's circumstances ended up being my greatest teachers (as per usual), and after a lot of tears and processing, i began to embrace my path. we emptied out the room we'd hoped might become a nursery one day and created a sacred place for my daily injections. each day, before i gave myself 3-4 shots, we sat, lit a candle, put on some music, said some words of intention, and meditated over my syringes to try and infuse them with as much love as possible. what i feared would be cold and sterile became one of the most love-filled and sacred experiences of my life, and how we ended up bringing our daughter into the world now feels like the most meaningful and powerful way we could have done it.
the footage used in this music video is from our third ivf egg retrieval, which (like most of ivf) was an emotional roller coaster. after my daily blood draw and scan, we would walk in the woods and try to talk ourselves back to being whole. every day a new worry or fear would arise, and we would spend the next many hours trying to remind ourselves to surrender, to keep open, to keep learning, to keep looking for the love that was still in our lives. the hardest part was working to believe that if at the end of all of this there still was no baby--we would still find joy, we would still create meaning and purpose in our lives, and we would still, ultimately, eventually, be okay. though that headspace was tricky to find and trickier to stay in, there was so much beauty in accessing that delicate little place where the light lives, a place that's always there for us. touching that spot is what this song, "light", is about.
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Light Lyrics
I found a light inside inside me
That’s burning even in the rain
And even when I’m sighing
I know that somehow I’m okay
I found a light, I found a light
Growing in the space between
There is no word to claim it
And thinking only makes it gray
And only in this silence
Have I began to see the way
I found a light, I found a light
Growing in the space between
Just close your eyes, just close your eyes
feel it underneath what’s seen
When we were young we had it
We were a part of everything
And maybe it’s not lost
And maybe this is all a dream
We had it all, we have it
We had it all, we have it
I found a light, I found a light
Growing in the space between
Just close your eyes, just close your eyes
Feel it underneath what’s seen
We had it all, we have it
We had it all, we have it
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wellll surprise!! my new album “it’s hard to be human” is out 😱😭♥️🎉🙌🏻 this collection of songs chronicles my last three years of life—including moments of immense grief and hopelessness as well as moments of incredible clarity and gratitude. these songs found me as i navigated social anxiety and tended to my mental health, tried to come to terms with a world seemingly on fire, and journeyed through infertility, IVF, and a miscarriage. within all of that, however, there were tremendous amounts of beauty and love, too.
these three years have been so chock-full of humanness. they broke me open and filled me up over and over again, taught me incredible lessons (and then taught them to me again every time i inevitably forgot what i had learned), and gave me such an incredibly deep love and compassion for all humans going through their stuff. my “stuff” may have looked a certain way these past years, but as humans, the raw experiences we go through—love, loss, joy, despair, existential overwhelm, etc, really bind and bond us in our humanness. this record is a meditation on lost dreams, hope, surrender, and the ultimate realization that we have everything we need.
these last 9 months especially have been so rich with life—double pregnant with a miracle human baby and a labor-of-love album baby, and it’s been so meaningful to build them in tandem and have them both entering the world around the same time. after everything we’ve been through, it’s impossible to describe how special it feels that this album cover features TWO humans on their own journeys. our daughter could be arriving any day now (which is just completely surreal and mind-blowing and nuts!), so i’m particularly thrilled i get to share THIS baby with you now before life gets a little crazy for a while. i can’t believe i am here after all these years. thank you all for your love and support and encouragement, and until i’m back with more music, i hope you and this little family of songs can spend some quality time together :) “it’s hard to be human” is out now in all the places ♥️
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if there's one thing life has taught me time and time again, it's that things rarely go to plan. and if there's a second thing life has taught me, it's that when i kick and scream and resist what has happened, i just end up generating more pain for myself.
... okay and if there's a THIRD thing life has taught me, it's that more often than not, after a little time and space and acceptance, i manage to find a lot of beauty and learnings and unexpectedly wonderful things that would not have otherwise existed if things had gone according to my original (and completely made up) plan.
i'm not trying to preach toxic positivity here--there's no spinning that so many of life's events are just unbearably unfair and painful and heartbreaking. but if this is how the cards have fallen, how much energy might we waste fruitlessly resisting what has come to pass and wishing it away? the more i have learned to surrender to the unfolding of things, allowing myself to feel that pain and heartache fully, while trying to find a way to move forward WITH it, as opposed to living in a perpetual state of resistance/anger/sadness/resentment, the more i have found some level of peace, and the more i have been able to see the beauty that does still exist in every moment. this of course doesn't mean we passively accept the way things are--if there is something to be DONE about things, we should by all means DO it!! but there's definitely something to be gained by learning to differentiate between the times where we can do something about it and the times we can't.
so now, when life laughs at my little human plans and throws something else my way, i try to soften. i honor my pain, and hold out hope that there may someday be beauty and growth and magic born from this very moment. who am i to presume to know the way things *should* go.
this is what my new song, “another way”, is all about. i hope it resonates with you somehow.
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Another Way Lyrics
How would you know if what you’re needing
Isn’t something you’re not seeing
What if you lost the chance to be what you could be
How would you know that something better
Wasn’t waiting for bad weather
To soak its seeds, to give you everything you need
We have a habit of
Thinking we know the way it goes
Then it goes another way
I know the latter is not a laughing matter
But it seems we’d be crazy not to think
That maybe this could be
Exactly what should be
How would you know if someone wiser
Wasn’t forging in these fires
What if you’d washed away what could’ve set you free
How would you know if you’ve mistaken
When your heart is bruised and aching
For a bad thing when all you needed was to bleed
We have a habit of
Thinking we know the way it goes
Then it goes another way
I know the latter is not a laughing matter
But it seems we’d be crazy not to think
That maybe this could be
Exactly what should be
What if we choose that we’ll let go of
All the things we’ve no control of
What if we learn to love whatever comes to be
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Kina Grannis - Another Way (Official Video)
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Moonsong Lyrics
There in my heart
I feel it go
The weight of everything I have known
Can I decide
Leave it behind
And fall away into the unknown
I’m afraid it will come back again
And for a moment I felt nothing ever dies
Even in darkness I will try, and I’ll try, and I’ll try
Why does the moon up in the sky
Feel something like my family tonight
Is she alone
And does she cry
Each time we turn away from her light
Could we ever really understand
And maybe time is like a night that never ends
Maybe tomorrow comes again, and again, and again
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a little experiment in steeping in my introversion. if it feels uncomfortable to watch, imagine that feeling times 10, playing in the background of nearly all your social interactions for most of your life, while you are desperately trying to come off as a normal human being. 😂😬🥴😭
it was interesting to see how i did end up settling into it, much like i’ve settled into my introversion and anxieties in real life. but that doesn’t mean it’s not gonna look awkward along the way 😂 (and turns out i don’t know what to do with my mouth whether or not i’m talking 😂😂)
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Quiet Lyrics
If I could let you in my skin
Then you would know the state I’m in
Feeling every question, every end
Sometimes it’s hard for me to see
Anything else but stormy seas
Set the boat on fire set me free
How was I supposed to get by
Pick myself up, say it’s alright, alright
I didn’t know it was fine
I didn’t know it was fine to be quiet
I never knew where I belonged
Searched for myself in every song
But I had it in the stairwells all along
How was I supposed to get by
Pick myself up, say it’s alright, alright
I didn’t know it was fine
I didn’t know it was fine to be quiet
How was I supposed to get by
Pick myself up, say it’s alright, alright
I didn’t know it was fine
I didn’t know it was fine to be quiet
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I first covered this song on Youtube almost 13 years ago (!!!). It's always been one of my favorites, so I thought I'd revisit it, and officially release it across music services this time so it can exist elsewhere, too!
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Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine (Kina Grannis Cover)
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in the early days of trying to start a family, i often let my mind wander and imagine what was to come—sitting with our baby in the sun, her amongst our family in the yard, jesse getting to be a dad. as the years went on, it became too painful to let these scenes in—letting in hope simultaneously let in a fear and pain so intense it was hard to stomach. so to protect my heart i built up strong walls between myself and that dream until i couldn’t even picture it anymore. sometimes i couldn’t even connect to wanting it, but something deep and quiet inside of me kept my compass pointed firmly in that direction.
"future memories" fell out of me one year ago during a time of incredible hope and incredible fear. we were weeks away from our first IVF embryo transfer. three and a half years of infertility building up to a moment where maybe maybe maybe this dream could be realized. for the first time in a long time, this song let me go there. the scenes snuck back into my consciousness and out of my mouth before i knew to stop them, and by the first chorus it all hit me and i broke down in tears. letting the hope back in was a terrifying thing.
if you’ve followed along with our story, then you know that the transfer worked—we experienced a miracle pregnancy and for a short while we floated around in complete and utter bliss and gratitude and disbelief until we learned that we had lost it. the shock of such a high followed by such a low knocked us off our feet and we spent the next couple months grieving and letting go of our dream once again.
getting to release this song one year later, having mourned that loss, started over from scratch with IVF, wrestled with hope and fear some more and finally come to a sort of peace with the reality that this may never come to be, and now, being months away from welcoming our daughter into the world--it is surreal and incredible. this song was forged in a purely imaginary world, and now that world is finally merging with our actual lives. i couldn’t be more grateful. ♡
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“Future Memories” Lyrics
time and the arrow beckon me
hiding in the pages listening
and the stories all grow tired, tired, tired
so we photograph the way we felt
and we cling when it starts fading
still we know that we hold everything
you and the roses dance around
we’re in the garden smiling
i didn’t notice how much love i’ve known
the setting sun will pause for no one
future memories often lie
inside of all the hope, inside the light
so we follow every star and pray in time
you and the roses dance around
we’re in the garden laughing
i didn’t notice how much you had grown
the setting sun will pause for no one
we watch the leaves unfolding quietly
no tugging at the time or way of things
and we mirror both the growth and withering
you and the roses dance around
he’s in the garden crying
i didn’t notice yet that i had gone
the setting sun will pause for no one
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Written by Kina Grannis
Kina Grannis - Future Memories
KG Records 2021
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"Oh What A Love" Lyrics
Oh what a love we have
Less of a face than an altar
We never kept our cool
So overjoyed in its honor
Oh what a love we have
Watched as it sank under water
A heavier mindset then
What would have been of the daughters
Oh what a love we have
Lifting off all other matters
If we just keep it clear
Don’t forget, don’t forget, don’t forget
Our love is our love
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Written and produced by Kina Grannis
Kina Grannis - Oh What A Love
KG Records 2020
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this song is about the chapter that comes after the knockdown--the chapter where you start to come to again, and though you're weak and hollowed out and broken, you're ready to start trying to put the pieces back together. to me it feels like the beginning of healing. or maybe the beginning of being WILLING to heal. it's about baby steps and celebrating the small wins and giving yourself grace on the occasions you might momentarily stumble back into the dark. "crawl" found its way to me in a dire moment and served as a little mantra i could sing to myself as i ever-so-slowly trudged my way back to myself.
so happy to send this little song out into the world to live its life! i hope it can offer the teensiest bit of light in these heavy times. sending you all love and hope and healing!
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“Crawl” Lyrics
Knock on the door
I’m afraid of all the things that I am not
Anymore, anymore anymore
Just like before
I am scattered trying to find the parts of me
On the floor, on the floor, on the floor
And I know it’s getting quiet
But you know that I get like this
You and I will crawl until we both get up again
Even though we’re getting tired, so tired
You and I will fall and still we’ll make it in the end
In the meantime you’ll remind me, I’m always fine
You and the stars
Make a list of pretty things to fill my day
Bless your heart, bless your heart, bless your heart
You deal the cards
And it’s better when I seem to drift away
From the dark, from the dark, from the dark
And I know that you’ve been trying
Full of tears that you’ve been drying
You and I will crawl until we both get up again
Even though we’re getting tired, so tired
You and I will fall and still we’ll make it in the end
In the meantime you’ll remind me, I’m always fine
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Written and produced by Kina Grannis
Kina Grannis - Crawl
KG Records 2020
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The first time these words came out of my mouth I immediately started crying. There's something powerful that happens when you admit to yourself out loud the extent to which you are yearning for something, the extent to which you are hurting. It can break your heart into a million little pieces, but somehow that's better than the pressure cooker of trying to dismiss your emotions and make them smaller. Acknowledging and respecting where I was at allowed me to fully step into my heartache and give myself permission to feel all these things, and in some ways it was a first step in realizing I needed to be a bit kinder to myself, too. This is a song about yearning and loss and the delicate balance of trying to accept the path you're on while not letting it rob you of hope in the process.
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“I Never Wanted Anything More Than I Wanted You” Lyrics
i’m at my lowest, caught in a moment, trying to get over this
all of the marks i’ve logged on the page, the waiting has got me sick
i can’t get away from it now
i can’t get away from it now
i try to think lightly, picture the lines and hope that the feeling sticks
where we’re all smiling, holding the prize, i can almost imagine it
but i can’t even let myself now
i can’t even let myself now
i feel you in the sea washing over me, something in the moving tides
every fallen leaf seems to say to me, “everything in time”
i never wanted anything more than i wanted you
i never wanted anything more than i wanted you
come back to me
i never wanted anything more than i wanted you
i look at the trees and fall into pieces, god i am sick of this
if i believe that this is for me, can i make the most of it
i can feel the weight of it now
i can feel the weight of it now
i feel you in the sea washing over me, something in the moving tides
every fallen leaf seems to say to me, “everything in time”
i never wanted anything more than i wanted you
i never wanted anything more than i wanted you
come back to me
i never wanted anything more than i wanted you
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Written and produced by Kina Grannis
Kina Grannis - I Never Wanted Anything More Than I Wanted You
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this song attempts to encapsulate some of the pain as well as some of the lessons jesse and i have experienced these past years going through infertility. the constant grappling with time (and the perceived loss of it), the feelings of helplessness and the grasping at trying to control outcomes in a picture that is so much bigger than us, the struggle to keep trusting and finding meaning and beauty in things when part of you just wants to give up, watching your friends enter into a new phase of life you'd hoped to enter with them and seeing your paths begin to diverge.
it's about thinking that we have control, yet knowing we have none. thinking we could have done things differently, that there was some better, alternate timeline we could have lived if we had made a different choice along the way. but at the end of the day, this timeline, this is the only one that’s real. and in this one, we are still alive, our families and friends are still safe. we still have each other. so we try not to reject this timeline or wish it away.
time and time again we have learned that the hardest things we’ve gone through have been the things that shaped us, gave us depth, and taught us how precious the things that matter really are. i am grateful for every hardship i have had so far, and deep down i know that someday, somehow, i will be grateful for this one, too.
IMAGINARY FUTURE
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had a hard day, made a fort, sang in it.
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It's Hard To Be Human Lyrics
can you pull the car over
i need to slow down
get some words lined up
and see how they sound
we just keep spinning
and everyone’s hurt
both of us talking
but no one feels heard
i know you never wanna get me down
but it’s a steep road i’m walking on
you know i never wanna get you down
but it’s a bit late now
it’s hard to be human
it’s hard to grow up
i just keep trying
and keep messing up
and maybe i’m learning
and finding my way
but how could i feel this
and still be okay
i’m sitting here staring at the gutter and wondering why i feel sorry for myself
if we keep hurting one another starts to color how how we’re doing it to ourselves
i know you never wanna get me down
but it’s a steep road i’m walking on
you know i never wanna get you down
but it’s a bit late now
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i've heard from a lot of you that the songs i wrote during and about my time in jakarta have started to make sense on a more personal level lately--and it really is strange how applicable these songs feel to the current times we're in. recently i’ve been reflecting on that period of my life and the lessons i learned there, and it's been a helpful reminder that even in times like these there are still so many gifts and lessons and things to be grateful for if we're willing to look for them. and also, oof--it can be incredibly overwhelming and scary and confusing and painful. trying to hold space for both to be true at the same time.
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"Souvenirs" Lyrics
Four little walls and we made a home
Out of the window the gray unknown
Who would've thought we would wind up here
Holed up and holding it all so dear
And it's time that we take care of things, my dear
If it's all or nothing, cut the cloth, I'm fine here
Oh, how the days seem to disappear
Now all the scars seem like souvenirs
I saw the universe in your eyes
Telling me it's gonna be alright
And it's time that we take care of things, my dear
If it's all or nothing, cut the cloth, I'm fine here
And it's time that we take care of things, my dear
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One afternoon when I was feeling particularly overwhelmed by the state of the world, this song came and tapped me on the shoulder as if to wake me up: "Hey Kina--choose love." A hundred times a day I am pulled to sadness/fear/unworthiness/anger, and in those moments it feels nearly impossible to come back to love and hope and gratitude, but every now and then, by some miracle, I can feel how there is space for all of it--that maybe it's less about rejecting the heavier things, but managing to meet those things with love, too.
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—
“Love Anyway” Lyrics
i woke to a bitter scene
the whole world was crumbling
i cried to the guileless moon
the wolves came to comfort me
and just as i fell asleep
i heard they were crying, too
if we’re all hurting these days
maybe it’s time we find a way
to love love love love love anyway
as dew drops and and morning fell
the sun came and wished me well
and so i was on my way
i sat in the broken weeds
and wove them into tapestries
and watched as the remnants swayed
feeling that we are all the same
all of one heartbeat, different names
and we can love love love love love anyway
how do we get to the other side of it
how do we get through the fight in it
how do we get to the light in it
if we can make it through the gray
maybe we’ll find another way
if we love love love love love anyway
—
Written and produced by Kina Grannis
Kina Grannis - Love Anyway
KG Records 2020
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IMAGINARY FUTURE
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Sunday, Dec 15th, 2019!
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In this episode: vulnerability = strength, realizing we all actually might be great exactly the way we are, and my secret mini poem revealed!
0:26 How does watching the "All Along" music video feel to you?
2:05 This song has only one lyric: "All along I had it all"
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3:59 What is the almost inaudible spoken part at the end of the song?
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In this episode: why the "bad" is often "good", recreating my life in Jakarta, and why we should probably all quit our jobs and just hug for the rest of our days.
0:08 When did you write this song?
2:05 Can you talk about the significance of different parts of the music video?
5:17 Can you talk about the lyric:
"Now all the scars seem like souvenirs"
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In this episode: the human behind "Beth", the terror (and beauty) of telling people how you feel, and how Jesse sacrificed his skin for us.
0:11 Who is "Beth"?
1:15 What is this song about?
2:36 Did Beth know this song was about her?
4:11 Anything you can share about making the "Beth" music video?
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IMAGINARY FUTURE
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In this episode: dealing with depression, the comfort in knowing we're never alone in our struggles, and why I'm hanging out with a tortoise in the music video.
0:06 What is "it" in the lyrics?
"It lingers in my day / It's lurking in the backyard
But you start to feel it too / Just underneath the surface
Whispers from the left side of the bed"
2:48 What is this lyric about?
"Does everybody want to be alone?
It would make the lonely feel less lonesome"
3:58 How did it come to be that there was a tortoise in this music video? What does it symbolize to you?
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In this episode: finding peace amidst chaos, feeling gratitude for the little things (which turn out to be big things!), and how cool it is that we all exist together during this same little speck of time.
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0:09 This is one of two songs you wrote while in Jakarta. Can you talk about that experience?
3:25 Was it difficult to write the song given the circumstances?
4:16 What does this song mean to you?
5:33 Why did you shoot this music video at the beach?
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MAKE ME LYRICS
Rainbows, I can't find them
Past the raindrops where the light bends
And the stories tell of people
Finding beauty where the dark's hold lets go
If you want to smile with me
Hold me close and lie with me
If you want to die with me
Handle my heart carefully
Make me believe you
I've been searching dreary weather
For a cloud that's lined in silver
But the rain keeps on falling
And my love, I am calling for you
If you want to smile with me
Hold me close and lie with me
If you want to die with me
Handle my heart carefully
Make me believe you
Oh, you can't change the hurt you've done
No, please don't let us come undone
Make me forget
Make me forgive
Make me believe you
If you want to smile with me
Hold me close and lie with me
Oh, if you want to die with me
Handle my heart carefully
Make me believe you
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0:10 How did you write this song?
1:23 Is it about a specific bird?
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6:15 Did you record the birds at the beginning of the song?
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0:15 What in your life inspired you to write this song?
2:00 Can you talk about these lyrics?
I sat still in the twilight
I found peace in the quiet things
How could I wish away all the in between?
6:23 How did you decide to shoot this video in the redwoods? Is there any significance there?
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0:11 What does "I'd rather be right here than falling off the pages of history" mean to you?
1:47 What does "I stayed home on New Years Eve" refer to?
3:46 "I still remember what life was like back then before I had learned to speak, I'd hide, Sing it out, sing it out."
5:26 Why were you emotion and what are the backwards words at the end of the video?
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0:23 What is it you are struggling to learn?
2:02 So, when WILL you learn?
2:37 This was the first video you directed and edited by yourself. How was that?
4:14 What is your favorite lyric in the song?
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Meet (or re-meet) my song "Never Never"! I wrote this song 15 years ago and it was originally recorded on one of my first albums called One More In The Attic (but that recording is pretty embarrassing so don't go listen!). It means a lot to get to re-visit this song and breathe some new life into it, hope you enjoy it!
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