The Story behind a song: Part 2.
Song: The Encircling Silence.
Album:
Any Place but Now.
I’ve written about death several times and from different points of view since I decided to express myself through music. It’s always been a main topic in my song writing and I’m sure that I could write about it over and over again.
It wasn’t my first idea to talk about death. I had written part of the lyrics a long while ago and frankly I thought it’d be another sad love song. But suddenly something happened, a friend lost his partner after months and months of fighting against cancer. That event completely changed my approach when I started to work on the lyrics again.
I lost people too, all of us have. But never did I write about it like this. They were there and one day they just had vanished. I’ve never been close to someone relentlessly knowing that this time might have been the last time we share words with each other.
Then I wrote:
“I keep trying so hard
learning how to cope babe.
Inside the encircling silence
where you threw me.
In your final hours,
light as a feather.
Did I say enough?
Or
Did I show enough?”.
