TheVeryChill's playlist - Part 1

I've been writing music most of my life. Songs have always been the place where I've sorted out the events of day. If you trace these songs back far enough they tell a story of where I've been and what I've seen along the way. That said, most people don't have the time to sort through the hundreds of songs that have collected in the wake of my 20 plus years behind a piano, and that's why I love "Cecilia and the Satellite". As a song it encapsulate so much living against the back drop of a new life. Cecilia was written with the knowledge that my wife and I would soon meet our first child. With the hope of avoiding territory this type of song often treads, I tried to create a road map of the life I had lived leading up to that moment. One my daughter might look back on some day. A strange life of constant motion, spent traveling in the pursuit of music. A life I’ve nearly lost on more than one occasion and one which I am thankful for, now more than ever. Deep down this song is about more than me and where I’ve been, it’s about more than my daughter and what I want for her. It’s about being proud of where you come from and wanting the most for the people you share your world with.

Keep an eye out for tour dates on Monday!

LYRICS
I’ve locked myself in a hotel room
Then waited all night for the walls to move
I've loved some girls that I barely knew
I’ve made some friends, and I’ve lost some too
 
Crashed my car, I was seventeen
My mother in the seat riding next to me
The things I’ve learned from a broken mirror
How a face can change when a heart knows fear
 
For all the things my eyes have seen, the best by far is you
 
If I could fly, then I would know
What life looks like from up above and down below
I’d keep you safe, I’d keep you dry
Don’t be afraid, Cecilia, I’m the satellite
And you’re the sky
 
Oh, Oh
 
I've café crawled through Amsterdam
Been around the world with a punk rock band
And I’ve seen London, and I’ve played Japan
I’ve been knocked down, I got up again
 
For all the places I have been, I’m no place without you
 
If I could fly, then I would know
What life looks like from up above and down below
I’d keep you safe, I’d keep you dry
Don’t be afraid, Cecilia, I’m the satellite
And you’re the sky
 
Oh, Oh
I’m the satellite
And you’re the sky
 
For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you
 
If I could fly, then I would know
What life looks like from up above and down below
I’d keep you safe, I’d keep you dry
Don’t be afraid, Cecilia, I’m the satellite
And you’re the sky
And you’re the sky
I’m the satellite
And you’re the sky
And you’re the sky


Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness

Cecilia And The Satellite

This is an album about possibility — and what it costs to finally choose.
Decoherence follows the long arc from childhood superposition (when every future feels open) through the quiet collapses of adulthood: love, loss, commitment, parenthood, identity, and the versions of yourself you leave behind.

Across sixteen tracks — from the shimmering youth of Superposition to the painful endings of Collapse #2, through the parallel-universe fragments of the interludes, and into the quiet clarity of Coherence — the album maps the emotional physics of a life taking shape.

It’s a soundtrack for anyone who has ever been told they could do anything, struggled to choose something, lived too long in open tabs, feared commitment, chased potential, or held on to unrealised futures long after they faded.

Blending post-folk electronica, glitch-soul, double bass, analog warmth, and intimate vocal layers, Decoherence sits between science and soul — a concept album about learning to land.
About collapsing the wave on purpose.
About the one life you choose when the moment comes.

COHERENCE

A passionate disco love song about intense desire, dancing wild and free, and the electric connection between two people. The lyrics capture heart-pounding longing, fiery kisses, and a night where life and love collide in rhythm and emotion

Fire Escape

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