July 7 - Woke Up New

This song is a joyous whisper, a small delight that revels in its own quiet guilt. It's a song - as most of Get Lonely is - about absence, but it's a song that carried its own guilt. Not guilt for what the narrator has done, but distinct guilt for how the narrator feels.

The core of this is the ambiguity of its central message. Free, lonely, scared. What do I do without you? How can the mundane feel so alien?

It is, crucially, not quite a lament. The narrator is sad and confused, but not despairing. They're doing things to escape loneliness but they're not frozen. The "you" that the narrator is without is left in a state where we cannot say for sure whether their absence is good or bad or a mixture because the narrator doesn't really know either.

It's going to be different, and it's going to be scary, and whatever the future is that arrives is going to be new.