Somewhere Else
Searching for Solitude: Kathleen Edwards' Reflection on Life's Cruelty and Sweetness
Lyrics
I used to look for you out in the daylight,
I used to search for you during the daytime.
I took highways, and side streets, and back lanes,
I explored highways, side streets, and back lanes.
Slept under open skies.
I slept outdoors under the open sky.
Life can be cruel,
Life can be harsh or challenging.
Life can be sweet, if I want it to be.
Life can be enjoyable, but it depends on my perspective.
This town that I once called home,
This town that was once my home is hard to hold on to.
I just can't hold on to.
There's a struggle to maintain a connection with the town.
It's got strip malls, and bus stops, and people
The town has commercial areas (strip malls), bus stops, and people the speaker avoids.
I would never even talk to.
There are individuals in the town the speaker avoids interacting with.
She said life can be sweet,
Someone mentions that life can be enjoyable.
But life is so cruel, 'cause I let it be.
Despite the potential for enjoyment, life seems challenging due to the speaker's choices.
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Everybody out here,
Everyone in this place wants to live elsewhere.
They wanna live somewhere else.
The speaker expresses a desire to find a place and stay there alone.
I wish I could find a place,
Expressing a wish to be in a different location.
And stay there by myself.
The speaker desires solitude and wants to stay alone.
Bit by bit I swear I think I'm losing,
Gradually, the speaker feels like losing confidence in this city.
All this city's confidence.
The city's confidence is slipping away from the speaker.
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I swear I've lost all this city's confidence.
The speaker declares a loss of confidence in the city.
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