#002: Days Of Blue
Some words about my latest single 'Me, I Think I Found It'
There was something that felt peculiar to lead a chorus lyric with ‘Me, I’. To deliberately emphasize yourself holding love as a uniquely individual experience. A song written a few years ago, ‘Me I Think I Found It’ is out today and is the second single from my forthcoming album. This song needed time to find the right bed to lay on, and when I say bed, I mean the production. But really, once I understood that the sonics needed to feel like a bed, the production started to appear and the song’s fabric was finally understood.
There is meticulous care inherent in this song: to recognize yourself in love with or without someone close to you. The other is surely important, they are a source, a well for you to be able to draw from. The word grateful is a necessary remark but ultimately, it’s something for you to keep and hold in your fantasies, to dream as you’d like, to fill the world with meaning. I was in love with love and that may actually matter the most.
I dashed away in the afternoon when I wrote the line ‘Me, I Think I Found It’ in a hurry to go hang with some friends in Dufferin Grove Park. It was the edge of spring and Toronto was having its first beautiful day of the season. I had been circling the piano all morning in my apartment where I had just started to live alone. There was a melodic phrase that I would continually play and then suddenly that afternoon, I started to sing the resolve of the chorus and for a moment felt complete.
‘Me, I Think I Found It’ stayed in its piano and vocal form for a long time but at some point I did away with the original melodic phrase that inspired me initially and the song began to be unlocked with new clarity. Some months later, I was becoming new friends with Cecile Believe and she was visiting Toronto for a week and we began writing songs together. I was showing her this song and had initial ideas for drums that I was researching and then she started exploring some patterns to give the song a new sense of rhythm that really transformed the experience for me. Each building block for this song was like chiseling away at some detail to construct something seamless so that you could effortlessly float along.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the live show and how I want to translate the sonic interior of this album’s listening experience and see how it can expand to an audience of multiple people. It’s important that it suits the space it’s in and takes on a fitting dynamic. I can’t wait to share more about this and announce some dates… until then <3
Me, I Think I Found It Days come and go Keep me in your pocket ‘cause you know That every inch of me could be alone Your face it is so close Vertical no depth but it feels like home Patience is written in stone You and I and us Hold it up, so close to touch You laugh with me some more Kiss my body every Christmas Waited so long to let you know Patience is love that is untold Me, I think I found it Higher up than mountains Me, I think I found it Kissing you on days of blue Me, I think I found it Screenshot the perfect smile Me, I think I found it Digital imagination The ridges of your spine Your skin that folds into lines The echo of your mouth I play on loop for hours and hours I'm waiting up till morning The streetlights burn an orange tint I hope that you will love it And lay with me for dreams of when were old Me, I think I found it Higher up than mountains Me, I think I found it Pillow face and pixel eyes Me, I think I found it Screenshot the perfect smile Me, I think I found it Digital imagination