Our second single, My Station, will be available on Spotify and iTunes etc soon, but in the meantime you can enjoy it here with added visual enjoyment:
My Station from Stephen Miles on Vimeo.
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Out today! Digital download, second single. https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/my-station My Station I tried to book a train today I thought it wouldn’t take me long Had my destination right But I typed the date in wrong Screen went blue, then flashed at last ‘Outward travel must not be in the past.’ Isn’t that just me all over Always leaving stuff behind Little precious bits and pieces Little fragments of my mind Look around for what I lack ‘Always check the luggage rack’ Even as a little lad, I Used to miss my bus stop home Cried my eyes out when I woke up In the dark back seat alone The driver didn’t worry, he Said, ‘Worse things happen son, at sea.’ Even then it didn’t help to Hear the clichés that he said To know that some far distant sailor Missed his mother and his bed It wasn’t any consolation Because I always miss my station “We view memories as archives of past events... But in reality, [they] are nothing more than descriptions of what we think happened.”
Mo Gawdat is right, and I have spent more time worrying about both the past and the future in my life than good mental health would allow. That said, I really did try to book a ticket to travel in the past. Perhaps my subconscious was telling me - hey, Steve, you live a lot of your life in the past, thinking about good times and bad, so why not go there... Or more likely, I was just being incompetent. This song began with the two rather obvious meanings of the word 'station' - as in 'my place in the world' and 'where trains and buses stop', but it is also about my experience of trying to be out in the world, engaging with it, and finding that hard sometimes. Public transport is a very non-private experience, by definition. And therefore a good metaphor for our journeys into 'the real world' and how we negotiate with it in our heads. The second verse really happened too. More than once when I was young. They say 'Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger', and I'm pretty sure the various bus drivers involved thought I was a soppy kid who needed to man up. But those experiences didn't make me stronger or more confident. Quite the contrary. And his response put me off a career in the navy for ever... |
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