with recording "Life Of Me" in the school studio, there was
also moments when I found myself looking more and more into the future,
both in terms of normal life, as well as songwriting.
Since I would finish secondary school at the end of that spring,
it really didn't give me much time to really focus on writing,
and, if I should be honest, it felt like I had lost the spark.
It turned into a quite interesting spring though,
resulting in me getting to know a really cool person,
an amazing songwriter, and also a good friend.
That she was, and is, about 21 years older than me,
simply didn't matter. I still wonder now and then,
why we drifted apart.
Might sound like a cliché, but I think in the long run,
I owed her (and still owe her) a lot of credits for making me see
what I was doing in a whole new way and I guess she also made
me believe in myself in a kind of way. As I said, it was a very fitting
moment to close the "lyrics writing"-door that spring.
Those late evenings with a piano and an acoustic guitar,
cappuccino cups on the table, pink walls (loved those!),
soft burning candles.
Her songs of course sounded fabulous
right out of the box, but the fact is, she also gave me
the braveness to cut down the tempo of my own songs
and brought out a fragile, weak tone I've hardly ever
thought of before. Even though we came from two different worlds,
she was a pure rocker and I was that timid "soft pop"-kind of guy,
we still bonded somehow.
Regarding that fading spark, it was awokwn with a bang that very summer.
I'm still happy that we got to choose that sort of upscaled restaurant/
bar/nightclub to have our "last night with the crew" in.
We had had a really nice dinner, drinking a bit, laughing a lot
and had just got into the nightclub and, oh my god, if I could've done it,
I definitely would've been doing backflips all over the place, when the lead-
singer came on stage. HUGE celebrity crush!
Anyway, to put it simple, that night was a blast.
Actually, the first song of that summer was written
in a half-drunken state that same early morning when I came home.
After that one was done, the rest went pretty fast.
I finished the writing for two full-length projects,
one in Swedish, one in English, that summer and also
discovered that soft rock/powerpop thing I grew up with
in the process. "Things happened", I guess.
Summer loving might've been a blast, but I guess
christmas beat even that experience. Went on a christmas
cruise with mom and uncle's wife, and I have to say it really
felt empty when returning back home after those three days.
Didn't result in too much lyrics-wise, but five or six
demos and a whole lot of funny moments were etched into my mind.
Yeah, another big moment, got to meet a really dear friend of mine.
Even if it was only for the 2nd time it still was amazing.
Might as well mention we had been talking on the web a lot,
and also met for a quick moment a few years earlier.
Got only a few moments with her this time, too, but looking back
they were probably the most memorable moments that christmas.
So I guess the future looked pretty bright when 2005 turned into 2006
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