Hey guys, Luby here.
Since our double a-side tracks have been up to stream, and have been released today a fair few people have been asking what my lyrics are about to these 2 tracks in the last week or so, so I thought I’d write a few words down about the last 4 songs we’ve released recently on here. All our songs have really significant meanings to me I guess, so this is my way of sharing them with you!
There’s Something About Francis
I wrote this song at perhaps 3/4am in the morning one night. The night previous to this I’d driven to manchester to see a band that I’ve followed since I was 13 years old called “Aiden” from the States. This band made up a big part of my teenage years, perhaps for the main reason that when I was 15 Wil Francis pulled me up on stage and had me play guitar with them for a track, which when I was 15 was the greatest feeling in the word. Needless to say since that happened I’ve followed the band, although they aren’t my favourite band on record I love the energy of their live shows, and that’s what keeps me coming back to see them each time.
So I was at their Manchester show, there were 2 support acts, and the shows curfew was 9pm. It got to 8.50 and aiden still hadn’t showed up to the venue. It got to 9pm and they still weren’t here. At 9.10 they arrived set up, and the security refused to let them play. They eventually came on stage and played a 5 minute set, maybe 2 songs, and left afterwards. As it turned out they had been pulled over twice from the airport because of having tail lights out and had lots of van trouble. Driving home after the show I was pretty gutted having paid travel/tickets etc to see the show, and thinking about what had happened a night on, that band had people to pick them up from the side of the road when they had trouble with their van, they also had people there at the show for them that went crazy for those 2 songs even though they were an hour late on stage, and didn’t even play a set. Wil didn’t say a word for those 2 songs barely, yet everyone was hanging off everything he sung, and that whole night, including my car ride, my day and that show were what made up this song.
Honest
I’d like to think that I’m an honest person, if someone asks me something I will always tell it as it is, maybe this isn’t what I’ve always been like but it’s something I’ve learned to do. I will never lie to anyone, ever. This song is about my old band “This City Sleeps”. We had just released our first record “Seconds” and were on tour in July. We got to play a lot of places, and I felt very happy that people were coming out to shows, but all the stuff in between the shows, all the days off, all the hours when we weren’t playing I wasn’t happy. I felt like the guys were ripping into me at every possible moment, and I felt like anything I said to them either annoyed them or made situations worse, so I tried my best to keep quiet for most of the tour. This song was me getting over This City Sleeps. That band was my life from the age of 17 to 19. For 2 years of my life that was all I thought about and all I put anything into. That band gave me gateways to so many places, lead me to meet so many people (including Conor), and make so many good friends, and play some of the best shows in my life. The song “Honest” was me saying to the guys (weather they listened to it or not) that you guys really made me feel so small, and so down during that last couple of months I was in that band, but I don’t care anymore, I can forgive you for that, and I will hold every past member close to my heart, because they were my best friends, and we had the best times and experiences together. They are a bunch of amazing people, I just needed a way to vent about what happened.
We Were All Lost
We Were All Lost is a funny one. We Were All Lost was about me turning twenty, and about me moving to Leeds when I was 16/17. Dropping out of school and moving to Leeds was the best thing I have ever done in my life, the best decision I have ever made. I’m proud that I come from Hull no matter what reputation it has, but I just never felt like there was anything there for me. When I was 15 years old I spent every weekend travelling to Leeds with my friend Lewis to see shows there. We were in Love with the place. I love Leeds because it’s like a small London, I love the noise of the city centre I can hear from my flat every night, there is nothing better. Everytime I go back to Hull I feel like it slowly swallows me up, and I think a lot of people from there would agree. It’s 4 years on and I turned twenty. I spent my twentieth birthday in a Casino betting petty money, winning nothing and trying to lose myself in the strange atmosphere that’s in casinos, I got pretty down about turning twenty, because honestly I’m no where near where I want to be. Since then I think I’ve accepted that I’m doing the best I can, and I can’t do much more, this song was a way for me to get over that, and every time we play it I think I get a little more used to the fact that I’m not a teenager anymore.
Think Of Me
Think of me is about 3 people. 2 of them are going to remain nameless for now, but they know who they are, the 3rd is Chris Jay from the band Army Of Freshmen. In May I spent a few days on tour with a band called Lost? and Army Of Freshmen, doing Merch and helping out Lost? in any way I could. On the Manchester date of the tour which was my last night with the bands, after saying goodbye to the Lost boys I sat in Burger King for an hour with Chris Jay. Chris is like a hero to me, I’ve looked up to him since the first time I saw AOF when I was 12, and he sat down with me in burger king and literally talked about my music with me, he talked about what we were doing next, where we wanted to be, gave me all the advice he could, almost like he was showing me the ropes. We then had a conversation about love, how finding someone that accepts what you do musically is so hard, because damn it is. If you’re in a band and you’re with someone who isn’t they will never understand why you do what they do, because the passion in music is intense, it’s your life, and until someone does it they won’t understand why you do it. They won’t understand why after so many years of playing music you won’t just give it up and get a “real job”.
In March I was diagnosed with depression and was sent to see a therapist every 2 weeks, it was the most ridiculous thing because I didn’t feel like I needed it and I felt like it wasn’t for me. The day after that Manchester show I drove to my session and told them I didn’t want to do it anymore, an hour conversation with Chris Jay helped me more then he will ever know. Needless to say I’ve figured a lot more out now. After this I confided pretty much everything I’ve written down here with a friend, that made me realise a lot of things about myself, I then sat down and wrote this song at the end of all that.
Hope that maybe makes my lyrics a little bit more understandable.
I haven’t spell checked/grammar checked anything so please don’t point out all my punctuation/spelling flaws as there will be a million of them. :)
Luby xx
