Window Gazer

from I'll Show Myself Out Now by Ayka

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If there’s ever a film to be made about me and no budget for the royalties of “Joy Road” by The Lyman Woodard Organization - this would probably be the soundtrack. My mum cried the first time she heard it. We listened to it in the car and I think it’s a great song for when you’re in a moving vehicle. It’s very literal and sentimental, but also a bit rockstar-y. Like me? It was one of the songs that went through a big change going from demo to studio - in plural ways. Before, it was mainly synth and no guitar - now it’s mainly guitar and no synth. The demo is personally and stylistically very close to my heart, but this version “tar kaka”* emotionally. *(That’s “surpasses” in Norwegian).

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If you’re gonna ask me which mountains do I come from
(I) Didn’t really grow up in a set and placed home
My mother and my father sitting in the front seats
Nintendo and the doggy with me in the backseat

Seen a thousand people, known and sulked they’d be gone
Money on the windshield and four wheels riding roads long
Always running out of touch when friends begin to open up
Locked the door and threw the key and with my heart it closes shut

Twenty cities older and I’m not getting younger
But I still play my GameBoy while you are reading Tolstoy
Never got my license, so I’ll be sharing bus rides
With rangers and familiars
Down the concrete rivers

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from I'll Show Myself Out Now, track released October 8, 2021
2021, Luft Recordings

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