Story Behind The Song

I began writing this song after I dropped my 3 1/2 year old daughter off at pre-k. I couldn't bring myself to drive away, so I wrote it in the parking lot - using the sadness of the moment to write the music. I love Ivan Lins' and Jobim's music, so I was hoping to write music and words that borrowed from that hearty tradition.

Song Description

I wrote this song to say that being alone or having alone time is important and is in fact, "marvelous to get lost in the silences." Outsiders can sometimes falsely perceive being alone as not ideal, but this song suggests it's not only good, but essential. The verse melody is meant to have a cello-istic motion, creating a swelling urgency.

Lyrics

As if
Music and Lyric by Lauren Kinhan

The sorrow of longing, belonging to none
No one answer is the same
for the moment I remain

In conversation's hallowed silence,
the quiet says more than the words in perfect time
drowning the spaces in a rhyme

For all we know, the anguish of flying alone
Is only a mirror's reflection of someone's opinion of one
How marvelous, to be lost in the silences

From far away the earth revolving is solving
the songs we'd forgotten on the way
Between what is now and yesterday

Cuz time is squandered on the youthful ambition
to have more than what you had before
As if less is lonelier than more

For all we know, the anguish of flying alone
Is only a mirror's reflection of someone's opinion of one
How Marvelous, to be lost

Where it stops
No, No One, No One Knows

For all we know, the anguish of flying alone
Is only a matter of seeing the beauty of just letting go
For all we know
Is only a mirror's reflection of someone's opinion of one
How marvelous, to be lost