1. Without Me

Hi, my name is Lloyd, and this is an Introduction to a Song.

From the age of 16 until nearly the age of 20, I had these friends that were boyfriend and girlfriend. Knowing both of them as friends prior to the confusing situation that was their relationship was a rare thing, and knowing both of them as friends post-relationship was even rarer. I still love them both, but for those four years, things were a bit muddled all around.

Everyone has had at some point or another known, or has even been a part of, a relationship that has broken down and picked back up and blown apart and stuck together again over and over, until the very concept of a relationship has skewed to the point of being unrecognisable.

So during a particularly difficult patch where they'd broken up, I wrote this song about my thoughts on how the guy was feeling about it. But then they got back together, which kind of ruined the song, which I thought was really selfish of them.

Without Me - Link

Verse 1
You’re asking me down again
To a place that I know well
But you still can’t see
That’s a place that I can’t be

Verse 2
Don’t give me your pleas, please, I’ll stand where I wanna stand
If it’s too far from your shore, well sure, I still won’t understand
‘Cause it’s too hard to see who I’d be here
So I will liberate, and inebriate ‘til I can’t see clear, that

Chorus
I don’t wanna see you you’re gonna be, without me
‘Cause if I set you free then I won’t be
‘Cause life without you just seems all too confusing
And I don’t wanna see who you’re gonna be, without me

Verse 3
I can feel it falling down and I don’t know how
I need another pick-me-up, but the bottle’s empty now
I think I’m happening while the weather is dampening
I think I’m doing fine, but it’s not just my noose that I’m fastening, no

Chorus
I don’t wanna see who you’re gonna be, without me
‘Cause if I set you free then I won’t be
‘Cause life without you just seems all too confusing
And I don’t wanna see who you’re gonna be, without me, without me, yeah
Without me, without me, yeah

Bridge
Well, don’t you like your cigarette, and you’d booze it up as well I’d bet
Well I loved it just as much, I know
I see you walking by with the ghost of me by your side
Now can’t you see why I can’t know, oh

Chorus
I don’t wanna see who you’re gonna be, without me
‘Cause if I set you free then I wond’t be
‘Cause life without you just seems all too confusing
And I don’t wanna see who you’re gonna be, without me, without me, yeah
Without me, without me, yeah