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Jack River
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Jack River. aka Holly Rankin. Songwriter. Mother. Nature, Politics etc 🦋
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This song is about the feeling that you’re living a stranger’s life, but it’s too sweet to give up, you’re too in love with the characters in the scene, and you’re too afraid to tell any of them this is how you feel.
I did leave my favourite jacket on a Californian train around 10 years ago, sometimes I wonder what else I left there, and what might have happened if I took another path. I also wonder who has it and if I will ever see it again. I love likening my life to this jacket, like a childhood that I left behind, that someone else is living or wearing. I love leaving space for another life time in my thinking, like Tom Robbins’ quote ‘Its never too late to have a happy childhood.’.
The first half of the song has been ruminating in my head for years, but Matt and I stumbled upon the second half of the song in the studio. It kind of felt like a portal to give the writer/the listener the option to leave the dream, leave the life or the expectation they are holding themselves to.
#jackriver #endlesssummer
I did leave my favourite jacket on a Californian train around 10 years ago, sometimes I wonder what else I left there, and what might have happened if I took another path. I also wonder who has it and if I will ever see it again. I love likening my life to this jacket, like a childhood that I left behind, that someone else is living or wearing. I love leaving space for another life time in my thinking, like Tom Robbins’ quote ‘Its never too late to have a happy childhood.’.
The first half of the song has been ruminating in my head for years, but Matt and I stumbled upon the second half of the song in the studio. It kind of felt like a portal to give the writer/the listener the option to leave the dream, leave the life or the expectation they are holding themselves to.
#jackriver #endlesssummer
This is a song I started when I was 18, but I felt like now was the correct time to release it. The world is run by men who think they are holy, and for hundreds of years we have fallen for it. That time is over now, just in time to deal with the mess that so many of them have made.
video by @☠️ annie hamilton ☠️ #jackriver #endlesssummer #newmusic
video by @☠️ annie hamilton ☠️ #jackriver #endlesssummer #newmusic
Paradise swirled around my head in the winter months of the pandemic, as I ran on the cold pavement each morning in my beautiful seaside town. I knew I wanted to keep pursuing my (incredibly magic) music career, but I honestly felt like I was in the gutter, aiming toward something impossible. I felt stupid for feeling so low, when I was so lucky to be living in paradise, healthy and surrounded by good humans, with an amazing career that was momentarily on ice (like everyone else’s music careers). I needed to keep reminding myself that all was well, I just didn’t realise it at the time. The line after the chorus ‘Come on and stay in the weather’ - reminded me to toughen up and stand in the weather, feel it, and somehow enjoy it.
Two different quotes that inspired lyrics in this song:
‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’
- Oscar Wilde
And..
‘Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.’
- Bob Dylan
#jackriver #newmusic #endlesssummer
Two different quotes that inspired lyrics in this song:
‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’
- Oscar Wilde
And..
‘Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.’
- Bob Dylan
#jackriver #newmusic #endlesssummer
Lucy Sea Queen started as a birthday song for my friend Lucy. My friend Ash and I couldn’t make her birthday party, so we wrote her a song, imagining her running round the town, drinking and dancing without us. It turned into some kind of lovesong about friendship, I wanted to capture that endlessness of friendship in the lyrics and the beating heart of the song -
’She’ll call the cops when your life’s on the rocks, she’ll make it feel like summer again.’ Is one of my favourite lines on the record. I hope this song is sung with friends on road trips, I hope it soundtracks someone’s memory of summer somewhere.
#newmusic #jackriver #endlesssummer
’She’ll call the cops when your life’s on the rocks, she’ll make it feel like summer again.’ Is one of my favourite lines on the record. I hope this song is sung with friends on road trips, I hope it soundtracks someone’s memory of summer somewhere.
#newmusic #jackriver #endlesssummer
