Story Behind The Song

Inspired by my job, which involves a lot of traveling, this song captures my personal view of life on the move finding freedom, meaning, and identity through constant change and new places.

Song Description

A heartfelt indie-pop anthem about freedom, movement, and self-discovery -- embracing change as a way of life rather than a fear to avoid

Lyrics

Not all who move need a heading
Instead follow where the moment flows

To know me is to understand I will leave
State it but rarely believed
They're convinced one day I'll concede
A nomad freedom is my heartbeat's creed

Don't hold me back don't hold me down
I'm a traveling soul that's just how I get around

When I leave I'm gone
Travel light so nothing impedes
When you or anything grows heavy
That's the first thing that goes
The constraints of an average life
Suffocate my purpose to feel alive
I move I travel I view I'm free
Staying too long never sits right with me

Don't hold me back don't hold me down
I'm a traveling soul that's just how I get around

Everything I've lived has refined me
Lost in place till the nomad life found me
Now I seek I search I follow time and it never sticks around

Don't hold me back don't hold me down
I'm not lost just not meant to be found

Wasn't raised a nomad
But the path I lived shaped me
Into someone who loves to seek
The sun lights my way
The moon and stars guide me through the darker sways
It's not always bright
I prefer the unknown anyway
I'm a traveling soul that's just how I get around

I will never stay
So I hope the memories I create
Permeate even after I go away
I might travel light
But the memories always stick and remain
So let's live in the moment
Knowing just like time I will slip away

Don't hold me back don't hold me down
I'm a traveling soul that's just how I get around