”I wrote this song on a day off in a Tuscan garden in the summer of 2022. I was sketching on my small Martin guitar accompanied by birds singing and a hot Italian sun. What is it to be completely you, to be completely free?
When do you know that you act only out of your own will and wishes and not under the influence of other people? Without baggage and mental barriers? Living is living with people, is it even possible to live without compromise?
We’re adapting, finding our space in between, pushing where we can, backing when we have to. Do we always know what is holding us back?
The production of this song is a way of continuing to explore the sound of After the Great storm, especially the song Take Hold of Me. And also working with the same producer Samuel Starck.
Hand in the Fire
Come on baby
you’re a star
get it all
put your hand in the fire
come on darling
break the fall
you’ll be fine
it’s alright
when you stumble
tell me
honestly
are you truly free
come on baby
you’re a star
get it all put your hand in the fire
there’s something in my bones
something in my bones
something in my bones
gotta shake it off
gotta let it go
I gotta move gotta move on
move on gotta move on
soul searching
finding out
what you want
what is holding you back
there’s something
in your bones
shake it lose
let it go move on