This song grew out of a memory - an echo of a relationship. Something that still lights up my day and that I will cherish forever. It has a home in me. Something I nurture. It carries a feeling of joy and absolute freedom, and a deep sense of gratitude towards a person who may never know how much they moved me - simply by being who they are, and by seeing me as I am. It’s a moment that may not have existed exactly as I remember it. But I choose to hold on to it. A place I can return to whenever I need to remember that feeling.

Lyrics

A Place I Still Go

[Verse 1]
I remember looking up
Sun behind your face
You were laughing
Like the world had lost its weight

Air was heavy
Like the end of summer days
Something golden
Already starting to fade

[Prechorus]
No before and no after
Just that space we were in
But I felt it already
How it wouldn’t stay like this

[Chorus]
And I keep it somewhere
I can still go
That careless kind of light
I still know

Like a late summer day
Holding on to the heat
While the air turns softer
Underneath

Just your laugh
And the sky going wide
And a quiet knowing
Passing by

[Verse 2]
I don’t know if it was real
Or something I made up
But it lives in me
Like it never quite let go

There’s a quiet place
I don’t let life touch
Where it stays just like that
And it’s always enough

[Prechorus]
And you never knew it
What you gave without trying
But I felt something shifting
Even there in the light

[Chorus]
I keep it somewhere
I can still go
That effortless light
I still hold

Nothing heavy
Nothing to prove
Just your laugh
And the way I could move

Like a late summer day
Just before it turns
When you feel the ending
But it still burns

[Bridge]
There’s a room in me
I don’t open wide
Where the light still falls
Like it did that time

I don’t change a thing
I don’t ask it why
Even knowing
It was passing by

I just let it stay
As it was back then
Half in the sunlight
Half in the end

[Final Chorus]
And I go there sometimes
When the weight comes back
To that open sky
And the way you laughed

You are somewhere
Living your life
But that one moment
Still lives in mine

Like a late summer day
I can’t hold on to
Still I feel it
Like I used to

[Outro]
Sun in my eyes
You laughing above me

Already leaving
And still… with me