About This Song:
[Lyrics]
I flip through old photograps and writings
And I start to wonder when it is we slipped
We've both been on the same track
For a pretty long time
And it's funny
To see how we have changed,
But it's sad how we've stayed the same
And I don't get
How we could have been so careless
Just to take it all for granted
Or was that just me?
Slowly, I start to see
We didn't have troubles as compared to now
And everything feels less, somehow
We
Are really too dependant
'Cause the lot of us are so alike
Not free
But not any one of us would know just what to do,
If we were free
And we've been speedballing
Heading down a long and winding road
That split somewhere along the way
I hope that all of us can find a shoulder
We can lean on
And now it's changing
Life is pressing down on me
Pushing all the air out from my lungs
And, hey, our paths will find a way to converge
Somewhere along this long and twisted way
So don't change
I know that life is giving us the same,
Culminating from the blood we gave
Yeah
Oooh, oooh
It's true
Life is weird, and fate is cruel
But you will always see it through
You'll never be alone
So,
We're like a family divided
When I take a look inside it feels cold
I've got a heavy heart
That's darkening with frostbite
But you make it warm
And the both of you are close to me,
Despite the distance
I guess I'm just sore
Because I've got a lonely symbiotic,
Outsourced, and platonic atrium
Yeah
I guess it's more than a little rare
We all got a price to pay,
And we can't always share
Oooh, oooh
It's true
Life is weird, and fate is cruel
But you will always see it through
You'll never be alone
Oooh, oooh
It's true
Life is weird, and fate is cruel
But you will always see it through
You'll never be alone
You'll never be alone
You'll never be alone
You'll never be alone
You'll never be alone
Atrium is a song written to two of my best friends, (one of whom is the production consultant from my last two albums). When I wrote this, they were in a precarious position and we had very little contact with each other. We're all friends who met over the internet and had been used to talking to each other every day.
I got depressed about it as I often do, but they were doing something they needed to do for themselves, so this me telling them they had my support as a friend and that I wished them the best. Hard to believe that this song is almost 2 years old now. Thanks to Kaitlin MacDonald for lending her lovely vocals during the chorus! Oh, and musically, it takes a little bit of inspiration from Our Lady Peace's "Happiness..." record, and the song Potato Girl.
P.S. Proud of the ridiculous lyric that the song takes its name from. :P
Atrium
(ft. Kaitlin MacDonald)