Our Past Lives (Feat. SOMOH)

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About 4 months into writing for the record I moved back to Ireland to start recording the album. I moved back in with my parents and turned their garden shed into my studio.

This was the first song I wrote when I moved back. I think I wrote it because I was back in the town I grew up in and everyday I’d drive past a spot that would have a memory tied to it. It’s
not like in a city I moved to in my twenties where it requires new memories to tie to places and things. I would drive to the shop or go for a walk somewhere and It would feel like I’d covered every corner of the town when I was younger because everywhere I’d go I’d be able to remember a story from when I was a teenager.

My parents moved out of the house I grew up in and when I got home I drove back up to it just to see if it was the same. I had an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia and also a difficult feeling of accepting the fact that that’s not where I live anymore. It’s hard to let go of something that is tied to those old memories.

The song is presented as a relationship between two people but really it’s a person talking to their younger self/the idea of a nostalgic feeling. It’s about being tired and burnt out as a 20 something year old and looking back at your teenage years and romanticising how easy and care free it was to be 16. I had the first verse written for ages but couldn’t write a second.

A couple of months later I became really ill and fatigued and was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. “So tired of turning pale” was a line I wrote in frustration to what I was going through. That whole time period was a wake up call for me that I wasn’t going to be young and carefree forever. I finished the second verse around that time as I was feeling the most I’d ever felt about wishing life was easy again.

lyrics

It’s all that I have got
You pressed it in my side
As I begin to rot
You came on by
The words they feel so stale
Our Past Lives
Return onto a way
To hold on time

Don’t you ever feel,
How could this be real?
And why should I reveal?
Waiting for the time

All of my lifetime
All of my lifetime

It’s all that I am not
Forget the words you tried
As I begin to talk
You make your mind
So tired of turning pale
Our past lives
Return to how it stays
To hold on mine

Don’t you ever feel,
How could this be real?
And why should I reveal?
Waiting for the time

All of my lifetime
All of my lifetime

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from Ways To Get Out, released August 22, 2022
Written, Performed, Produced and Mixed by Joel Johnston
Mastered by Felix Davis at Metropolis Mastering
Additional Vocals by SOMOH

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Far Caspian is the project of singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Joel Johnston. Choosing to record with a DIY approach - recording, playing and mixing everything himself - his sound is a deftly combined blend of chiming guitars, rich harmonic melodies and crisp rhythms. ... more

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