The Girl (City And Colour Cover)

Went through my computer and ran across this gem today and thought I'd upload it. I remember singing this at the pub as a goodbye to all the wonderful people I met while living in Ireland and I recorded a version soon after coming home. Miss you guys.

The Parting Glass Cover DEMO

Hello world,

	I am feeling extra nostalgic today. I don’t know if it’s because it’s the first day of the new year, or if it’s because my whole family is gone today and I’ve been in an empty house, OR if it’s because tomorrow is the last day I’ll get to see my little brother for several months. Regardless of the reason, I am nostalgic. And I realized this has been a pretty significant year for me. I’m almost half way through college; my older three siblings are all now married, so I am the oldest unmarried child in my family of six. I turned 20 two weeks ago, so I am now officially two decades old; I am no longer a teenager. 

Another year is gone. I am another year older. I am another year closer to the rest of my life and another year away from my childhood: from being a kid. 

When I realized all of this, I had an old song stuck in my head. I heard this song during the summer before my eighth grade year while I was working at a Young life camp in Michigan. It was originally written by a local high school band from my town named “The Sideproject”, and I found out today that they broke up about four years ago. I looked everywhere I could online and couldn’t find this song anywhere. So I decided to try and recreate it.

Armed with just a memory, I have spent the majority of my new year’s day with a guitar trying to remember the words, the melody, and the chords; this is what I’ve come up with. 

It sounds the way my life felt when I was younger. Accordingly, It sounds differently than the things I play now, the songs I write now, and the way I sing now. If you’ve heard me before, you’ll understand what I mean. 
I almost felt like I was in middle school again when I was playing it, and I liked that.

My recreation of it probably sounds completely different than their version did originally; some of the words are probably wrong, and I’m sure I played some different chords than they did, but the meaning is still there, the meaning is still the same. It’s about growing up, about reminiscing. It’s about remembering the past and dreaming of a future.

So, here’s to being young. Here’s to skinny jeans and earrings. Here’s to the relationships that we had, the memories we had, the responsibility and the worries that we didn’t have.  Here’s to never settling and never giving up. 

Here’s to being a kid.

Cheers.

-Elijah Miller-


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