When Music is You.

I have been listening to James Blake for almost 2 years now and have always found a connection to his sound that helped bring emotions I did not know existed to the surface. Very similar to that, but on a very deeper level his new song "Retrograde" seems to have poetically spoken on my behalf on where I feel my life is at right now. 

It seems this is a song being sung by someones inner self to there outer existence. It seems as if a wiser James Blake or rather his character is singing to himself asking him to finally be strong, and move forward. I can relate to the lyric "Be the girl you love, be the girl you love". All I can think about is my mother, and how in my time of reflections and unraveling my deep trauma from my past, I sometimes think of the wonderful loving person my mother was, and how that person was my introduction to love, and as a result she still exist within me. "Show me why you are strong" as if self is telling self to prove it, prove all of it. Show yourself why you are strong, and do it, finally! As I approach my first full week of not going out or having a drink since I moved to SF, I can not help but dissolve into this song. Thank you James Blake. How beautiful it is. 

James Blake – Retrograde Lyrics

Verse 1:
You’re on your own, in a world you’ve grown
Few more years to go,
Don’t let the hurdle fall
So be the girl you loved,
Be the girl you loved

Chorus:
I’ll wait, so show me why you’re strong
Ignore everybody else,
We’re alone now
I’ll wait, so show me why you’re strong
Ignore everybody else,
We’re alone now

Verse 2:
Suddenly I’m hit
Is this darkness of the dawn
And your friends are gone
When you friends won’t come
So show me where you fit
So show me where you fit

Chorus:
I’ll wait, so show me why you’re strong
Ignore everybody else,
We’re alone now
We’re alone now
We’re alone now
I’ll wait
We’re alone now
We’re alone now
I’ll wait
We’re alone now
We’re alone now
We’re alone now
We’re alone now

Suddenly I’m hit
Is this darkness of the dawn
And your friends are gone
When you friends won’t come
So show me where you fit
So show me where you fit

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