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See You In The Storm

from See You In The Storm EP by Jesse LeBourdais

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This song is a fictional tale of someone in intensive care, in a place without much hope. I wrote it in the winter as kind of an exercise to get out of first person perspectives in songwriting.

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"She wakes up alone in a hospital room, surprisingly silent for where it is. She curses the breath that brings her awake, but savours the light that signals the day. The window outside is her only light and in the dark she can't see very far. So she lingers a moment before arising; closes her eyes and tries to go back to sleep. She lets her mind go wandering to where she'd rather be.

So many places she will never see.

She dreams she's at the corner of Kind Edward and Cambie and she'll catch a train to the airport and buy a one-way ticket anywhere.
Spend the next few hours thinking what i'd be like never landing. How long would it take before someone missed her or even noticed she was gone and how long would it take before she started resenting the metal and plastic that hold her in place. Would it feel so familiar to what she is leaving; she has never really known anything else.

She started so far behind.

She dreams she is walking on a shore, and there's a storm on the horizon. An old friend comes up to great her, looks in her eyes. Then they both walk hand in hand through the tide and into the ocean and they are swept up by the current and the storm will envelope them, water will surround them and then drag them to the bottom of the sea.

She is too strong to die but too weak to leave. The light from the window is starting to fade, and with it comes the end of her day. So she lingers a moment before proceeding to unplug the machine that keeps her alive. If she makes it to morning, it'll be her own strength. She won't have to worry, she knows that the storm will still be out there waiting for her."

credits

from See You In The Storm EP, released May 7, 2019
Jesse LeBourdais - Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Dave Leslie - Drums
Stephanie Cole - Bass
Jesse Gander - Organ

Mixed by Jesse Gander
Mastered by Brock MacFarlane

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Jesse LeBourdais Vancouver, British Columbia

Punk rocker/folk singer, now an author, apparently.

Breaking strings and writing words since 1998.

New Single "We Howl" out March 1st, 2024

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