SONG 3: You Sit on the Moon

Of all the songs on the EP this is my least favourite. I just don’t believe myself in the live performance of it. I wrote the music for the song just before my breakdown and I actually found the phone recording of the original which has so much more potential to be an excellent song. I think I wrote the chord progression after my housemate, Armando, showed me a song by Lambchop called ‘His Song is Sung’ which is still one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard purely because of its intro. Since writing that I’ve been playing those chords as something for when I’m bored or stuck. Which means I’ve almost been playing one chord progression for a year, with the phone recording date being November 25th 2022.

I think it has way more potential than ‘You Sit on The Moon’ and I’m going to have to write something else with it.

I wrote the lyrics to ‘You Sit on The Moon’ after watching a small film called ‘Submarine’ that I’d already known from the excellent soundtrack Alex Turner wrote for it. There was something about the visuals the film uses and the surreal romanticism of houses and features of seaside towns that were all incredibly familiar to me. There’s something about incredibly small details like the small shadows cast by bumps on sketching paper that allows you to feel a world through a screen or through words. I tried to do this with the lyrics in this song to capture that feeling of being disconnected from the world and being stuck in your bedroom not being sure what to do. It’s more abstract than the other songs but it does get the feeling across.

You Sit On The Moon Lyrics:

I was waiting

I was waiting

I was waiting for sure

For your head round the door

For the time when you’d ask me for more

I was hoping

I was hoping

I was hoping in time

You’d spend some of mine

You’d like what you find

The shaking

And I’m shaking

And I’m shaking my room

With the sun shining through

The dust in the carpet is not gonna move

The last of the moods

Sometimes it feels like you sit on the moon

You sit on the moon

You sit on the moon

You sit on the moon

That feeling is something I’m very familiar with and still struggle with sometimes, Especially evident since this was the most recent song on the EP. I do think it’s a product of that abusive relationship. I don’t think my personality has fully recovered from being deconstructed like it was and those moods are just remnants of that old feeling of loss. They aren’t unbearable, sometimes they’re even comfortable and they make writing music feel incredible. They’re just a small fragment of something that used to be a huge part of me letting itself be known and I’m entirely okay with that.

A short one today. There just isn’t too much to say about this song.