I worry about you.
Volcano, Rootless Tree, Blower’s Daughter, Delicate and so
many more songs that truly strike a chord.
I still remember how I came to know of you. I was sitting in
a backpackers inn in Inverness, Scotland , noodling over whether to stay longer
or head to Glasgow right away. It was a summer morning, all others had finished
their breakfast and were on their way. I was still sitting at the table, scribbling
in my notebook.
Sun rays were angled through the glass door, passing through
my sparkling glass of water painted a tiny rainbow on the table. And then, the
song came on –
Don’t hold yourself
like that, you will hurt your knees. I kissed your mouth and back, that is all
I need.
Don’t build your world
around, Volcano’s melt it down.
What I am to you, is
not real. What I am to you, is not what you mean to me.
And those words stayed with me. Over the years, I have followed
your music very closely. One song painfully beautiful than the other. Hardly
anyone could capture the absolute agony of being in hopeless Love and not being
able to do anything about it.
We all fall in love, then fall out of it. Get over it. For
some it is ripping of the band-aid and for others it is a rib-fracture that
hurts even when you laugh.
I am excited about your latest album that is scheduled to
come out in November. I listened to the single ‘The Box.’ As much as I loved
it, it concerned me.
Like Henry Miller said, if you have loved her, suffered from
her, and now have turned her into music ( well he said literature, what did he
know ), isn’t it time to move on.
Not to be wrapped up in the idea of love but be wrapped up
in love itself?
I am really looking forward to all the eight singles!!!
I worry Damien. I worry ! Because we are far too alike.
N
