Okay, not going to lie, I feel dumb on YouTube. They’re putting AI-created music up with a title and the artist’s name. It sounds exactly like the artist, and it’s not a song the real singer has released. I know I should know if a singer I love is releasing new music, but I didn’t. I was really bombed a few weeks ago since I saw my sister getting ready, so I asked her where she was going, and she told me to see Lewis Capaldi.
I was like, “Lewis Capaldi is in Malta?” She told me yes; however, even if we’d scored a very late ticket, I still don’t have my wheelchair, so not having a ticket was a silver lining because I would have been devastated otherwise. I was listening to random music on Spotify when Constant Companion by Sam Smith popped up. In all honesty, the first time I heard it, I thought they were saying constant comparison, which, in my defence, the lyric parts I understood would match the topic of self-comparison, like: Unfamiliar faces at the bar
We drink to the rhythm of the swinging doors It’s going down down down down down
Like the rapids of the holy Hudson River
I can be the razor in your hat
You can be the blade that’s got my back, and when the good old darkness comes, I will keep you
safe within my arms
I’m probably wrong about the lyrics, but I feel like this is the place where people won’t judge me for that. I never heard them with this country vibe before, and I liked it, if only I could understand what they are saying from the get-go.
Constant Companion:
I’ll bury the bodies with you
Now I forgive you it’s time to ride out
We’re getting away way way way way from the city
Unfamiliar faces at the bar
We drink to the rhythm of the swinging doors It’s going down down down down down
Like the rapids of the holy Hudson River
I can be the razor in your hat
You can be the blade that’s got my back And when the good old darkness comes I will keep you
safe within my arms
Coz you
You are my constant companion
You know it’s true
Those sillouhettes seen drifting through the canyon 4 guns hang on the sides of 2 white stallions
Let’s ride into the sun and watch it
burn, burn, burn, burn, burn x2
Can you hear them coming in the distance
The hunter’s drumming hooves stalk our dreams A love like ours don’t have 4 walls or fences
Coz all we need, all we need
Is somwhere safe to rest our head at night Underneath a tapestry of stars
All you are is all I need
Homes the light that shines within your eyes
Coz you
You are my constant companion
You know it’s true
Those sillouhettes seen drifting through the canyon Let’s ride into the sun and watch it
burn burn, burn, burn, burn
burn burn, burn, burn, burn
Coz you
You are my constant companion
You know it’s true
2 sillouhettes seen drifting through the canyon 4 guns hang on the sides of 2 white stallions
Let’s ride into the sun and watch it
burn burn, burn, burn, burn
burn burn, burn, burn, burn
Tapestry:
They are all built into a unique tapestry
Yet we still compare
In a way we think is fair
Even if we end up undoing our own stitches
Since we are kind and fair
To everyone except ourselves