Talking to No-One

These two songs are really about the same person, just viewed from different points in life and through different emotional lenses. Is it fiction? Is it based on real life events? Who could know?

In the first song, we see her years later. The decisions were already made. The roads already taken. What remains is the weight of choice and the quiet grief that comes from realizing life doesn’t always give us the timing we want or need. Sitting staring through a rain-streaked windshield, asking a question most people eventually ask themselves: When is it our turn? When do I get to live for myself? When do I stop being who everyone else needs me to be? The song is about love, but it’s also about sacrifice, obligation, and the loneliness that comes from carrying both entirely too long.

Motions:

The second song goes back to the beginning. Here she’s seventeen, standing at the edge of a life she hasn’t lived yet. Nothing terrible happens. Nobody is evil. She simply makes a choice. That’s what interests me. Most lives aren’t changed by explosive and dramatic moments. They’re changed by small decisions that shape us quietly over time. A maybe here. A compromise there. A door closed without realizing what was on the other side. The narrator understands that. He’s not angry about what happened. He just recognizes that they met out of time and that some loves don’t lose because they weren’t real—they lose because life moves pulls us in different direction.

Hold Me Now:

Together, these songs are less about romance than they are about consequence. One song watches the choices being made. The other watches them echoes years later. They’re both asking the same question: How much of our lives are circumstance, and how much choice? I didn’t try to answer or resolve any question in these works. I wrote them to sit with the choices, to own them. Sometimes that’s the most honest thing a work can do, force you to sit inside a moment or series of moments–today a million miles away from .

– Jason