Chords for Noah Kahan "Stick Season" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified
Tempo:
64.7 bpm
Chords used:
Em
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I put it on TikTok and since I'm incredibly insecure, I was gonna delete it because I
thought like, oh, no one's watching this.
Like there's no comments or [Em] anything.
I waited like 20 minutes and it started to blow up.
And so I finished the song after I saw the first part of the song doing well on TikTok
and that's how the song was made.
[C] [Em]
[N] I call myself Vermonter, but it's definitely a song about the time of year in Vermont,
stick season when all the leaves are off the trees.
It's a term that was used by some of the older folks in the town I grew up in to describe
this really miserable time of year when it's just kind of gray and cold and there's no
snow yet and the beauty of the foliage is done.
It's a time of year that's very specific to where I grew up and I was concerned that I
might alienate people and I was like, this is incredibly specific.
Everyone thinks Vermont's in Canada.
I'm not sure if anyone's gonna get this.
But it was cool to see it connect with people and people have their own meanings of what
stick season might mean to them or what their hometowns mean to them.
So it was cool to see it connect outside of New England.
Driving in New England is a huge part of living there, especially where I'm from.
It's a lot of distance between places.
It's a lot of driving to get places and one turn can take you to a different life.
And so I wanted to kind of speak to that idea of having someone you love go farther and
farther away, not only emotionally but physically, like on the road.
Obviously the pandemic was raging when I wrote it.
A bunch of people in the TikTok comments were like, actually the plane is the safest place
for you to be.
I'm not sure about the exact science behind it, so please do not come to me for advice
on whether or not you should travel.
But I just thought the idea of feeling even stuck behind, even isolated by the current
events in the world, the feeling like there's really no escape from your situation, plays
into this idea of feeling trapped in where you are.
I always like to throw a good mom exchange into my songs if I can.
And this one I felt was particularly sad, just the idea that there was a person that
was tangential to your life for so long that completely forgot about you.
And in a small town, especially the town I grew up in, you go to the grocery store and
you will see every single person from your past getting avocados.
It just is that feeling of, I know I'm going to see these people that represent a lot of
pain for me and this person's completely forgotten about me.
It's almost like you're kind of trapped in your breakup or trapped in your relationship
and that you can't escape these people that have a part in your life, but they might not
even remember you.
And try to kind of lay on the depression a little thick there, that line.
So the line about my dad is really a reference to my family's disposition for depression
and how I feel like it's kind of passed down to me.
We are our parents in a lot of ways and we are everything that happened to our parents.
And this feeling of trying to push all this achievement and success on top of a problem
that needs to be solved in a different way in hopes that maybe it'll go away if you just power through.
In my life, so many times I felt like, man, if I can just achieve this or play this show
or get this accolade, then I won't be sad anymore.
And the more you do that, the more you realize that that sadness is there and you have to
deal with it.
And in a relationship, when you're in that kind of heartbreak, that really bottomless
pit of despair that you feel right after you lose somebody, it does feel like it's never gonna end.
But, you know, like the weather in Vermont, it'll become winter, it'll become spring,
and then summer again.
And in the aftermath of a relationship, it's the same thing.
You know, you'll move forward and you'll find somebody new or you'll find something in yourself
that makes you happy and eventually you'll find that peace again.
And I wanted to connect those two themes together.
[Em] I think the idea of driving in the song and a lot of the songs on the album kind of speak
to the idea of distance, speak to the idea of being forgotten.
Someone being able to just make a decision to not turn and having that person literally
drive away from your life.
It's also just an easy metaphor.
It's a little bit lazy songwriting, frankly, but
thought like, oh, no one's watching this.
Like there's no comments or [Em] anything.
I waited like 20 minutes and it started to blow up.
And so I finished the song after I saw the first part of the song doing well on TikTok
and that's how the song was made.
[C] [Em]
[N] I call myself Vermonter, but it's definitely a song about the time of year in Vermont,
stick season when all the leaves are off the trees.
It's a term that was used by some of the older folks in the town I grew up in to describe
this really miserable time of year when it's just kind of gray and cold and there's no
snow yet and the beauty of the foliage is done.
It's a time of year that's very specific to where I grew up and I was concerned that I
might alienate people and I was like, this is incredibly specific.
Everyone thinks Vermont's in Canada.
I'm not sure if anyone's gonna get this.
But it was cool to see it connect with people and people have their own meanings of what
stick season might mean to them or what their hometowns mean to them.
So it was cool to see it connect outside of New England.
Driving in New England is a huge part of living there, especially where I'm from.
It's a lot of distance between places.
It's a lot of driving to get places and one turn can take you to a different life.
And so I wanted to kind of speak to that idea of having someone you love go farther and
farther away, not only emotionally but physically, like on the road.
Obviously the pandemic was raging when I wrote it.
A bunch of people in the TikTok comments were like, actually the plane is the safest place
for you to be.
I'm not sure about the exact science behind it, so please do not come to me for advice
on whether or not you should travel.
But I just thought the idea of feeling even stuck behind, even isolated by the current
events in the world, the feeling like there's really no escape from your situation, plays
into this idea of feeling trapped in where you are.
I always like to throw a good mom exchange into my songs if I can.
And this one I felt was particularly sad, just the idea that there was a person that
was tangential to your life for so long that completely forgot about you.
And in a small town, especially the town I grew up in, you go to the grocery store and
you will see every single person from your past getting avocados.
It just is that feeling of, I know I'm going to see these people that represent a lot of
pain for me and this person's completely forgotten about me.
It's almost like you're kind of trapped in your breakup or trapped in your relationship
and that you can't escape these people that have a part in your life, but they might not
even remember you.
And try to kind of lay on the depression a little thick there, that line.
So the line about my dad is really a reference to my family's disposition for depression
and how I feel like it's kind of passed down to me.
We are our parents in a lot of ways and we are everything that happened to our parents.
And this feeling of trying to push all this achievement and success on top of a problem
that needs to be solved in a different way in hopes that maybe it'll go away if you just power through.
In my life, so many times I felt like, man, if I can just achieve this or play this show
or get this accolade, then I won't be sad anymore.
And the more you do that, the more you realize that that sadness is there and you have to
deal with it.
And in a relationship, when you're in that kind of heartbreak, that really bottomless
pit of despair that you feel right after you lose somebody, it does feel like it's never gonna end.
But, you know, like the weather in Vermont, it'll become winter, it'll become spring,
and then summer again.
And in the aftermath of a relationship, it's the same thing.
You know, you'll move forward and you'll find somebody new or you'll find something in yourself
that makes you happy and eventually you'll find that peace again.
And I wanted to connect those two themes together.
[Em] I think the idea of driving in the song and a lot of the songs on the album kind of speak
to the idea of distance, speak to the idea of being forgotten.
Someone being able to just make a decision to not turn and having that person literally
drive away from your life.
It's also just an easy metaphor.
It's a little bit lazy songwriting, frankly, but
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I put it on TikTok and since I'm incredibly insecure, I was gonna delete it because I
thought like, oh, no one's watching this.
Like there's no comments or [Em] anything.
I waited like 20 minutes and it started to blow up.
And so I finished the song after I saw the first part of the song doing well on TikTok
and that's how the song was made.
_ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ I call myself Vermonter, but it's definitely a song about the time of year in Vermont,
stick season when all the leaves are off the trees.
It's a term that was used by some of the older folks in the town I grew up in to describe
this really miserable time of year when it's just kind of gray and cold and there's no
snow yet and the beauty of the foliage is done.
It's a time of year that's very specific to where I grew up and I was concerned that I
might alienate people and I was like, this is incredibly specific.
Everyone thinks Vermont's in Canada.
I'm not sure if anyone's gonna get this.
But it was cool to see it connect with people and people have their own meanings of what
stick season might mean to them or what their hometowns mean to them.
So it was cool to see it connect outside of New England. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Driving in New England is a huge part of living there, especially where I'm from.
It's a lot of distance between places.
It's a lot of driving to get places and one turn can take you to a different life.
And so I wanted to kind of speak to that idea of having someone you love go farther and
farther away, not only emotionally but physically, like on the road. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Obviously the pandemic was raging when I wrote it.
A bunch of people in the TikTok comments were like, actually the plane is the safest place
for you to be.
I'm not sure about the exact science behind it, so please do not come to me for advice
on whether or not you should travel.
But I just thought the idea of feeling even stuck behind, even isolated by the current
events in the world, the feeling like there's really no escape from your situation, plays
into this idea of feeling trapped in where you are. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I always like to throw a good mom exchange into my songs if I can.
And this one I felt was particularly sad, just the idea that there was a person that
was tangential to your life for so long that completely forgot about you.
And in a small town, especially the town I grew up in, you go to the grocery store and
you will see every single person from your past getting avocados.
It just is that feeling of, I know I'm going to see these people that represent a lot of
pain for me and this person's completely forgotten about me.
It's almost like you're kind of trapped in your breakup or trapped in your relationship
and that you can't escape these people that have a part in your life, but they might not
even remember you.
And try to kind of lay on the depression a little thick there, that line. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So the line about my dad is really a reference to my family's disposition for depression
and how I feel like it's kind of passed down to me.
We are our parents in a lot of ways and we are everything that happened to our parents.
And this feeling of trying to push all this achievement and success on top of a problem
that needs to be solved in a different way in hopes that maybe it'll go away if you just power through.
In my life, so many times I felt like, man, if I can just achieve this or play this show
or get this accolade, then I won't be sad anymore.
And the more you do that, the more you realize that that sadness is there and you have to
deal with it. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And in a relationship, when you're in that kind of heartbreak, that really bottomless
pit of despair that you feel right after you lose somebody, it does feel like it's never gonna end.
But, you know, like the weather in Vermont, it'll become winter, it'll become spring,
and then summer again.
And in the aftermath of a relationship, it's the same thing.
You know, you'll move forward and you'll find somebody new or you'll find something in yourself
that makes you happy and eventually you'll find that peace again.
And I wanted to connect those two themes together.
[Em] I think the idea of driving in the song and a lot of the songs on the album kind of speak
to the idea of distance, speak to the idea of being forgotten.
Someone being able to just make a decision to not turn and having that person literally
drive away from your life.
It's also just an easy metaphor.
It's a little bit lazy songwriting, frankly, but
thought like, oh, no one's watching this.
Like there's no comments or [Em] anything.
I waited like 20 minutes and it started to blow up.
And so I finished the song after I saw the first part of the song doing well on TikTok
and that's how the song was made.
_ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ I call myself Vermonter, but it's definitely a song about the time of year in Vermont,
stick season when all the leaves are off the trees.
It's a term that was used by some of the older folks in the town I grew up in to describe
this really miserable time of year when it's just kind of gray and cold and there's no
snow yet and the beauty of the foliage is done.
It's a time of year that's very specific to where I grew up and I was concerned that I
might alienate people and I was like, this is incredibly specific.
Everyone thinks Vermont's in Canada.
I'm not sure if anyone's gonna get this.
But it was cool to see it connect with people and people have their own meanings of what
stick season might mean to them or what their hometowns mean to them.
So it was cool to see it connect outside of New England. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Driving in New England is a huge part of living there, especially where I'm from.
It's a lot of distance between places.
It's a lot of driving to get places and one turn can take you to a different life.
And so I wanted to kind of speak to that idea of having someone you love go farther and
farther away, not only emotionally but physically, like on the road. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Obviously the pandemic was raging when I wrote it.
A bunch of people in the TikTok comments were like, actually the plane is the safest place
for you to be.
I'm not sure about the exact science behind it, so please do not come to me for advice
on whether or not you should travel.
But I just thought the idea of feeling even stuck behind, even isolated by the current
events in the world, the feeling like there's really no escape from your situation, plays
into this idea of feeling trapped in where you are. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I always like to throw a good mom exchange into my songs if I can.
And this one I felt was particularly sad, just the idea that there was a person that
was tangential to your life for so long that completely forgot about you.
And in a small town, especially the town I grew up in, you go to the grocery store and
you will see every single person from your past getting avocados.
It just is that feeling of, I know I'm going to see these people that represent a lot of
pain for me and this person's completely forgotten about me.
It's almost like you're kind of trapped in your breakup or trapped in your relationship
and that you can't escape these people that have a part in your life, but they might not
even remember you.
And try to kind of lay on the depression a little thick there, that line. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So the line about my dad is really a reference to my family's disposition for depression
and how I feel like it's kind of passed down to me.
We are our parents in a lot of ways and we are everything that happened to our parents.
And this feeling of trying to push all this achievement and success on top of a problem
that needs to be solved in a different way in hopes that maybe it'll go away if you just power through.
In my life, so many times I felt like, man, if I can just achieve this or play this show
or get this accolade, then I won't be sad anymore.
And the more you do that, the more you realize that that sadness is there and you have to
deal with it. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And in a relationship, when you're in that kind of heartbreak, that really bottomless
pit of despair that you feel right after you lose somebody, it does feel like it's never gonna end.
But, you know, like the weather in Vermont, it'll become winter, it'll become spring,
and then summer again.
And in the aftermath of a relationship, it's the same thing.
You know, you'll move forward and you'll find somebody new or you'll find something in yourself
that makes you happy and eventually you'll find that peace again.
And I wanted to connect those two themes together.
[Em] I think the idea of driving in the song and a lot of the songs on the album kind of speak
to the idea of distance, speak to the idea of being forgotten.
Someone being able to just make a decision to not turn and having that person literally
drive away from your life.
It's also just an easy metaphor.
It's a little bit lazy songwriting, frankly, but