Another Time

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NICK THE LOT - ANOTHER TIME (CLIP)(OUT NOW)

ANOTHER TIME. Inspired my Frum's "Credits"

ANOTHER TIME

this track was created while i was working on getting together a set list for a live performance i want to do sometime before may. playing "second 1 and 2" i was thinking of what song i could transition into. i started with the intro of october 11,2023 at 5:42pm, and put in a melody i've been trying to incorporate into a song for a while now. it was about two or three takes before i got the final track for the main guitar that's the blueprint for the song.
i didn't really know where to take it from there, so i just started layering lots of guitar tracks, panned to the left and right, and since i just recorded the initial take only 10 minutes ago i didn't remember what changes i made to the melody and at what time's of the song. lately i've been avoiding doing stuff like that, i've been wanting all the layers to almost sound like one, huge, thick layer of sound. but i kept thinking of the way the guitars are layered in the Microphone's The Moon, and in a lot of other Phil Elverum songs, so i decided to stick with it.

the lyrics were the hardest thing to get right. i kept trying to write it like a traditional song, but i couldn't figure out how to even put lyrics to what i was hearing. all i had was two lines, "somewhere next time / i'll be closer to you". i forgot i had a class at 6:30pm, so i had to rush there, and on the way i tried writing some more lyrics. i didn't have the instrumental to listen to, though, so i decided to just write whatever i felt.
when i came back home i was able to dive right back into the idea i was trying to pull out with this song. i thought about Sun Kill Moon's song Among the Leaves, gave it a listen and immediately the words came flowing out. there's a common experience a lot of people have when they're working on any type of art, particularly with music. they feel like what they come up with didn't come from them, that they were struck with some sort of divine inspiration, that they were just a medium for an idea to manifest itself into the world. writing these lyrics it felt as if i was talking with a version of me in an alternate world, where the past four years of my life weren't spent in this room i'm in now, but instead somewhere else.
i think this song comes the closest to reconciling my life right now with a life that i think i would've wanted instead, a life where somewhere, next time, i could be closer to you.

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somewhere next time
i’ll be closer to you


since september i’ve been inside my room
thinking i can’t do what i really mean to do
that every word i say or song i sing
is just a silly distraction that’s all inside my head.
sometimes i wonder if what i think could ever come true,

a job where i’m not miserable
a world where i’m with you,
where the past four years are given back to me,
where i could spend every second with you,
where i’d hate to see even a minute pass by,
where i see this time as something more valuable than
five more days spent alone
a week spent at home
another month passes
and a way out’s never shown,
but still i think there’s hope for me
at the dawn that still breaks
i can step outside this door
and feel an air that i’ve felt before,
and see the me that would’ve been
standing here inside this wind
finding meaning beyond
dreams that he dreamt before
and maybe hear inside that wind
a voice that maybe could be his,
and holding onto something more
he’d think it was yours
saying that this is what it is,
this is who he is,
and to hold onto this day harder than before,

today will be yours.


and he’d walk back into his room
and see you lying
down inside his bed,
and you’d just say
"today’s not in your head."

["right now, let’s go to bed." / “forget the things that we did” / "next time we’ll be…" / ]

march 6,2025 at 6:14pm

somewhere next time / i'll be closer to you

TONE DEAF

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