shell suite

You, you would always see the signs
The echoes in my head they rhyme
I feel we never went at all
Tomorrow is another day
I don’t know when I’ll feel anymore
Feeling all these things before
And all that I would do

This song is more than just auditory to me. In the summer after eighth grade, as my friends and I were all preparing to depart for different high schools, we recorded a music video to this song in Valparaiso, Indiana. My friends and I spun around on the great lawn, weaved through the branches of the weeping willow, and trudged through the forest’s mud. Even better, the outtakes still exist on my laptop and I watch those on the days I’m feeling down. Music is so powerful because it’s like a time machine. It brings me back to my very first experience of having to grow up.