Somewhere Else

I’m off to Lincoln this afternoon, as I have to be there for work tomorrow. I have to give yet another talk. Hopefully I’ll be able to set off for home tomorrow at a reasonable time and maybe even get home a bit earlier than normal. How will I survive without access to the internet for over 24 hours??

Anyway, talking of being somewhere else reminds me of a song (painfully tenuous link there, sorry...) – ‘Somewhere Else’ by Razorlight. I haven’t commented on a song for a bit so maybe it’s time that I did.

I think this is a really great song. The kind that makes me turn the radio up whenever I hear it.

You're an emotional wreck
You don't know who you are
You never say what you mean
And you keep your mouth shut
And your nights stay still
And then you come and call on me

I can do ‘emotional wreck’ well sometimes. I can look at things and see all my faults, question who I am, wish that I was somewhere else or at least hope that things could be different.

And I met a girl
she asked me my name
I told her what it was
She looked at me
I tried to explain
Exactly what I lost
But now I just can't help myself
I really, really wish I could be somewhere else
Than here
You give me everything I need
but I really, really wish I could be somewhere else
Than here

Although sometimes I can explain myself reasonably well, at others I just don’t quite know how to put things into words and silence seems easier. Sometimes you can’t quite describe someone or something you have lost and instead it just seems a bit easier to want to make it all go away. Just to be somewhere else.

Sometimes when I look at life and feel frustrated or disappointed by it, I can hear this song and it picks me up a bit. You can sing at the top of your lungs how much you want to be somewhere else and somehow it gets some of it out of your system and things look maybe just a bit better.

Dig out a copy of this song, put it on and feel better…

You're an emotional wreck
You don't know who you are
You never say what you mean
And you keep your mouth shut
And your nights stay still
And then you come and call on me

You say I just can't help myself
I really, really wish I could be somewhere else
than here

And I met a girl
she asked me my name
I told her what it was
She looked at me
I tried to explain
Exactly what I lost
But now I just can't help myself
I really, really wish I could be somewhere else
Than here
You give me everything I need
but I really, really wish I could be somewhere else
Than here

Just anywhere else
Just anywhere else than here

And I won’t forget
No I won’t forget
No I won’t forget

And when I saw you there it was the first time
And you just walked on by
I was catching the sparks that flew from your heels
And trying to catch your eye

But that was
somewhere else
somewhere else
somewhere else
I really, really wish I could be
somewhere else
somewhere else
somewhere else
I really, really wish I could be
Cos I just can't help myself
I really, really wish I could be somewhere else
than here

And no I just can't help myself
I really, really wish I could
I've got everything I need
I really, really wish I could be
somewhere else
somewhere else
somewhere else
I really, really wish I could be