Every Song

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. First up, we’ve got one I wrote when I was 14. This is called Someone Like You. 050703 Someone Like You I think I’m falling in love, falling in love Do you really wanna know Why I think I’m falling apart, falling apart It’s because I’m losing all my senses They...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. First song for today is one I wrote on the 7th of July 2009, called Best Mistake. 090707 Best Mistake Do you remember when we were only fifteen And a hundred percent in love We would sneak out every night Just after daddy turned out the lights Well I recall you...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. The first song today is a love song called Love Song. I wrote it in when I was 14 and just playing around with the common concepts of songwriting. I wrote this following a verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure (no bridge though) and a 3-chord progression to see h...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. Here’s a song I wrote when I was 16, on the 20th of May 2008. A little romantic one, titled The Story. 080520 The Story Let me tell you a story About a girl who lost her heart But she found her way somehow Somehow in your arms Every corner was empty Every corne...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. My sinus infection is getting a little bit better today but it is still there. So, I still have a very nasal sound to my singing and I feel like I can’t give it a hundred percent emotion and soul. Which is a shame because the songs in today’s episode are quite...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. The first song I’m going to be playing today is a song I wrote when I was 13 years old, in 2005. It was inspired by a friend I had at school, named Emmy-Leigh, who, at the time of writing, was changing schools. This was a prettty sad time because I grew close w...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. The first song for today is titled This is Why, written on the 10th of April 2009. It’s about being friendzoned - arguing with oneself about admitting or denying feelings for someone who is not going to reciprocate those feelings. 090410 This Is Why I’m constan...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. I am sick again. So, my voice has been incredibly used and abused and inconsistent the last few weeks I’ve started recording this series. So, today, I’m only going to be playing one song. And It’s one that is quite special to me. It’s a song I wrote when I was...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play song I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. The first song I’m going to be playing today is called Spineless, about getting dumped in the most cowardly way by someone. 101201 Spineless I’m too proud to let you know Just how much you’ve hurt me so I’ll just write a bitter song To show you that I’m staying...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. In the last episode, going through songs I wrote for Amoska and The Mantis, I realised that none of them were from 2008. It might seem like I wasn’t writing at that time but I was. And whenever Antoinette and I would play together that year, it would be our old...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. I’m so excited because this is a very special and much longer episode. Today I’m going to be sharing some songs I wrote with my band/bands from school. Some songs I’m going to be playing from memory and others from random links I found of us on the internet. In...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. This first song, is a song that I wrote as a poem initially but I eventually slapped it onto some melody. The poem was inspired by my friendship with the bro, Brian, who I met at music school. He was a bassist and he and I had bonded over the years over our men...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. Today is the 18th of August 2025. Meaning, it is my 34th birthday today! I started tossing up the idea of writing music over twenty years ago, and here I am now, just playing to the void in my little corner of the internet. I am mainly doing this to get it all...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the year and share the stories behind them. Here is a song I wrote on the 8th of October 2010. It’s about thinking a significant other in one’s life is some kind of blessing from the heavens. This song also takes from the common experience of meeting someone you feel like you’ve known in a life before. It...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. It is winter time in this side of the world. Meaning it’s time for every millennial girl’s annual Twilight marathon. When the Twilight franchise was being released I was full force Team Jacob. I was obsessed. So obsessed that I even wrote this delusional song a...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. Here is a song about someone who had an incredibly unhealthy attachment style. He did everything he could to place the responsibility of his emotions and actions onto whoever he had formed a romantic connection with (even if it was forced). And a quick survey a...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play song I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. This is a song called Where’s Your Friend, from 2009. It’s a cheeky little song about how I used to ask my friends to introduce me to someone who they were friends with who I thought was really cute. This song was originally written, unseriously, on a janky litt...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. Today is going to be a short episode because I am only going to be playing two songs and I don’t really have much to say about them. Well, aside from that were both written was I was 14 years old. These songs were not just songwriting exercises to me—they were...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. The first song for today is called Giving Feels Good from 2007. This is another one that was written with the intention of playing it with a band. So, just imagine it much fuller, heavier, and funner than just these two layers that I play. 070422 Giving Feels G...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. The first song I’m going to play today is called Beautiful Eden from 2007. It is another song that was written with an imagined band playing along with me, so for this rendition, it is obviously just going to be my vocals and an electric guitar with my little s...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. Please excuse my voice today. I have been sick for the last week that I’ve been recording this series. My voice is not this low normally, in real life. I’ve just been fighting off a cold and living off hot toddies for the last few days - and I feel like s**t. S...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. In the last couple of episodes, I have shared some songs that were written to completion in my youth. But, of course, there are songs of mine that are just sitting here unfinished. Songs I don’t quite know what to do with, really. Some of them I’m not sure if I...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. Just me, my guitar, and my keys. This is a song I wrote on the 9th April 2005, when I was 13, called Don’t Keep Me Waiting. 050409 Don't Keep Me Waiting Now that you’re gone away You gave me space to run around in circles all day But now you’ve left me You must...

Welcome, you are listening to Every Song. A series where I play songs I’ve written throughout the years and share the stories behind them. To kick things off here, on episode 1, I’m going to sing the very first song I’ve ever written to completion from 2004. It is called Guess This is the End. But before I do, let me set the scene first to contexualise the setting of which I started making music....