#6: Backstage

So, as I'm going on TOUR FINALLY, here's a demo I wrote on my very first one in 2017.

Photo: Hannah Edelman. On tour 2021

At long last, I’m going back on the road. It’s been so long since I played live, which is so strange seeming as that’s where I’ve tested out every piece of material I’ve ever released pre-pandemic. Holding that space, laughing and crying a bit (sometimes) on stage, hearing stories of how far my music has travelled, healed and just brought a bit of catharsis to some of you is just an indescribable joy.

I wanted to go out acoustic, just my guitar and I, there’s something really special about returning with new music the way I started. I was also inspired by this Substack - as recent as it’s been - I wanted to ‘open up the songbook’ in real life so I’ll be playing released, unreleased and never to be released tunes haha. I’ll be doing my best to eloquently tell you all about how they came to be. If you have seen me live, you probably can recall I tend to pick up speed in my stories until I’m laughing and a wee bit lost.

I think I’ll be writing on this tour, I’ve found myself in a new fervor of inspiration, finding new guitar riffs, chords and melodies and can only see it snowballing into the discovery of the next chapter. I’ll share a song I’ve written every week of the tour - let’s say that?!

If you’re not in the US or Canada, know that the plans are a spiders web and very nearly a completed fractal I can tell you all about hehe!

So, where was I, tour, songs, yes, here’s one I wrote in 2017, about working my way out of a relationship I didn’t love, to a career that I did, backstage.

I remember the night somewhere in June

Stood in the light in an empty room

Sung for my life they were closing soon

In the corner of my eye there was you

We talked for hours, we talked for days

You said i was a star and I stayed at your place

Played me the guitar and said someday

You’d take me far, far away

But babe, now they clap for me

And they scream and they dance and they laugh with me

Babe, it’s a wrap for me

i couldn’t love anyone like the crowds I see, along the way

We broke down in a starlit haze

Backstage, amazed

I didn’t have a thing to say

We talked a lot back then I fell too soon

How you would make when the year was through

How I cradled your dreams it was all about you

When things turned to me, we fell out of tune

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Who’s dream was it anyway?