Oh Damien !

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