Kina Grannis
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New Release: Lonesome
🕑 Added 2018-02-16 19:04:37 +0000 UTC Oh my goodness, it's release day! I've been so excited to share this new song and music video with you all. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for making this possible. Thank you for allowing me the time to explore this song, to really pour myself into production and mixing and dreaming up ideas, for giving me the ability to bring those ideas to life, to drive out to the desert and have an adventure and create this video for you all.I wanted to share one of my favorite ways to immerse myself in a new song in case anyone would like to give it a try today! Read on below for that. I'll be keeping my own personal meaning behind the song to myself for now so you can find your own connection to it.
Enjoy and thank you and happy happy weekend!
xo
Kina
An exercise in getting to know a song:
You need:
• 10 minutes
• Headphones
Instructions:
1. Listen to the song with your eyes closed.
2. After the first listen, read the lyrics.
3. Watch the music video.
4. Be bffs 4 life.
LONESOME
Does anybody know
Why I get this feeling
I wake up to it eating at the core of me
And so, if dreams are just for show
Just stories without meaning
Why can I not shake them from my bones
Does everybody want to be alone
Tell me it’s okay so I can go home
If everyone wants to be alone
It would make the lonely feel less lonesome
It lingers in my day
It’s lurking in the backyard
Birds just keep on singing, so oblivious
But you, you start to feel it too
Just underneath the surface
Whispers from the left side of the bed
Does everybody want to be alone
Tell me it’s okay so I can go home
If everyone wants to be alone
It would make the lonely feel less lonesome
Comments
I was recently in busy, fast-moving Central Hong Kong and saw a random tortoise roaming the sidewalks. It was quite a phenomenon and very ironic. I thought of you and “Lonesome”, of course.
Hi Kina, I’m watching this again now, after being in a much different headspace/heartspace. Although I had commented when the video first came out that I was grateful that it makes the lonesome feel less alone, now I’m grateful that it makes me feel okay to want to be alone. It’s okay to be a tortoise, if that is my nature. There are many tortoises out there, and we should accept ourselves and not judge ourselves for wanting to be alone. Tortoises know themselves, go at their own pace, and have a necessary shell to protect themselves. What could be better than a tortoise? :)
Laura Jolly
Lovely 😊❤️
Beautiful Kina xxx
Carries more meaning the more I listen to it. Thank you, Kina <3
OMG!!! I love it a lot. It's impressively beautiful and breathtaking 👍❤🐢 and thank u too for the message in the sand
So much growth, yet still so innocent. Wonderful music Kina.
Really good Kina. Brilliant combination of song, performance and video. Love the song, your voice, the video ... and of course the tortoise! :) :) :)
Oh my gosh, the song is gorgeous and that tortoise was just PERFECT! Thanks so much for all you do. <3
BobC
I tried really hard to share how "In The Waiting" affected me, and then you go do this. I had to wait a while before posting. This was a sledgehammer, albeit a beautiful one. But it still hit home, hard, triggering long forgotten memories of the person I used to be, and the echoes that persist. That soaring octave leap was cheating, pushing me over the edge. Your voice, and how you arrange your music to use it so well, have matured so wonderfully.
Hi Kina! I did this exercise and it was fun:) I felt I really like your voice and lyrics and seeing/listening your world. Those always make me calm, peaceful and happy:) I love this, Kina:) and love this turtle too!!<3 It was super cute collaboration.
