Another song born out of lockdown. Originally, this was going to be a piano instrumental track. I had the basic melody which I’d recorded, and it was nice but it needed to go somewhere else. I was playing it on the piano one day and accidentally played the wrong chord, which was in an entirely different key, but somehow, it sounded perfect. From there I finished the melody of the song.
I had a particular friend in mind who wasn’t in the best place even before lockdown, but the isolation made it so much worse. They were unable to smile. This is what this song is about.
The original demo was just piano and vocal, and there’s something hauntingly beautiful about it which we could never recapture in the final version.
I must have made 50 attempts to get a lead vocal that I was happy with as the range of notes was slightly out of my comfort range. In the end, I decided to record a 3 part harmony arrangement.
The lead guitar is a strange one. In the mixing stage, Matt decided to move it back a bar. It works really well but sounds so different to the original intention.
I love the fact that musically, it changes key from Am to Eb. It kind of breaks all kind of rules but I think it works for the song.
I really like the sound of the clock in the hall at the start of the song. This imagery inspired me to use the actual phrase in another song called The Perfect Storm.
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