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The point at which we made this song in this record was a turning point in the sense that I
realized that I could make a happier album.
That actually the way I felt now, however it was I was
feeling, needed to be the way the record sounded.
This song was particularly pivotal in how [Em]
[E] [Em] [Eb] the
I'd not until that point in this album making process probably made something so jubilant,
celebratory.
I think a lot of the stuff I'd made from The Colour In Anything,
around the time The Colour In Anything and onwards was quite melancholic.
And this was
I think a moment in which I was feeling less and less melancholic and I was feeling more and more
in love.
I'd started working much more closely with Dominic Maker.
He brought in the sample of
The Manhattans.
As soon as he brought it in and started playing it, everyone's mood changed
in the room and I just felt the, it was like a wave of, and all I had to do was get on it.
The opening lines, they come across as supportive but really in a way they're gloating at other
people.
They're saying, you underestimated this person that I really believed in and look at how
it's turned out.
I know it took you a while to get to California.
I followed this person to California.
California wasn't somewhere that I ever envisaged myself living, [E] especially as an English person.
I
think we just don't ever think that that is a possibility because it's just so far away and
both in headspace and in geographically.
This whole record was written here and maybe that
reflects in the sound of it.
I had no idea I was waiting on you.
There's something slightly
spiritual about that line that when you find something or someone that you feel is,
was missing and up until that point you were blissfully unaware that you could be missing
anything and you really feel like you have it worked out.
I can't believe the way we flow.
I can't believe the way we live together.
I can't believe the way we flow.
I can't believe the way we flow.
I mean it's funny because it's not even my lyric.
It's the
it's the Manhattan's but it really just brought so many ideas to the table really.
The idea of flow
within a relationship, I think in this song I'm talking about it in quite a peaceful way.
Very
I think I'm characterizing a kind of like chaotic kind of up and down roller coaster.
My experience of maybe the best love I've ever had has been peaceful.
I could have used you in the early days.
Well it's been such a long long long long time with the music
of my mind.
My formative years were spent listening to Stevie Wonder and I think in a way
he kept me company.
That album particularly, Music of My Mind was a big one for me and that
phrase also I think resonates a lot with someone who used music as a catharsis and as a
friend when there weren't other dependable friends around.
Most of it seems unfinished now.
I can't believe the way we flow.
You know I don't do anything daredevil.
I have a survival mechanism that's pretty over careful.
[Em] Love can be an incredibly scary thing because you realize in that moment that you are vulnerable
and the long and the short despite what I was taught I'm finding I'm a smaller piece than I
once thought.
Oh no I really am.
Everyone especially growing up in the west I think there's
a societal and political and economic understanding that we are our own center of the universe and
that everything in our lives depend on us.
The realization that you're actually just a piece
that fits into everything else is the antidote.
[D] It's funny to to hear some of these lyrics back
in retrospect and actually read out rather than sung.
There's something a little bit more
jarring about hearing them read out where you
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The point at which we made this song in this record was a turning point in the sense that I
realized that I could make a happier album.
That actually the way I felt now, however it was I was
feeling, needed to be the way the record sounded.
This song was particularly pivotal in how _ [Em] _ _
_ [E] _ [Em] _ _ [Eb] the
I'd not until that point in this album making process probably made something so jubilant, _
celebratory.
I think a lot of the stuff I'd made from The Colour In Anything,
around the time The Colour In Anything and onwards was quite melancholic.
And this was
I think a moment in which I was feeling less and less melancholic and I was feeling more and more
in love.
I'd started working much more closely with Dominic Maker.
He brought in the sample of
The Manhattans.
As soon as he brought it in and started playing it, everyone's mood changed
in the room and I just felt the, it was like a wave of, and all I had to do was get on it. _ _ _ _
The opening lines, they come across as supportive but really in a way they're gloating at other
people.
They're saying, you underestimated this person that I really believed in and look at how
it's turned out.
I know it took you a while to get to California.
I followed this person to California.
California wasn't somewhere that I ever envisaged myself living, [E] especially as an English person.
I
think we just don't ever think that that is a possibility because it's just so far away and
both in headspace and in geographically.
This whole record was written here and maybe that
reflects in the sound of it.
I had no idea I was waiting on you.
There's something slightly
spiritual about that line that when you find something or someone that you feel is,
was missing and up until that point you were blissfully unaware that you could be missing
anything and you really feel like you have it worked out.
I can't believe the way we flow.
I can't believe the way we live together.
I can't believe the way we flow.
I can't believe the way we flow.
I mean it's funny because it's not even my lyric.
It's the
it's the Manhattan's but it really just brought so many ideas to the table really.
The idea of flow
within a relationship, I think in this song I'm talking about it in quite a peaceful way.
_ _ _ _ _ Very
I think I'm characterizing a kind of like chaotic kind of up and down roller coaster.
My experience of maybe the best love I've ever had has been peaceful.
I could have used you in the early days.
Well it's been such a long long long long time with the music
of my mind.
My formative years were spent listening to Stevie Wonder and I think in a way
he kept me company.
That album particularly, Music of My Mind was a big one for me and that
phrase also I think resonates a lot with someone who used music as a catharsis and as a
friend when there weren't other dependable friends around.
Most of it seems unfinished now.
I can't believe the way we flow. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You know I don't do anything daredevil.
I have a survival mechanism that's pretty over careful.
[Em] Love can be an incredibly scary thing because you realize in that moment that you are vulnerable
and the long and the short despite what I was taught _ I'm finding I'm a smaller piece than I
once thought.
Oh no I really am.
Everyone especially growing up in the west I think there's
a societal and political and economic understanding that we are our own center of the universe and
that everything in our lives depend on us.
The realization that you're actually just a piece
that fits into everything else is the antidote.
[D] It's funny to to hear some of these lyrics back
_ in retrospect and actually read out rather than sung.
There's something a little bit more
jarring about hearing them read out where you

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