“Pictures”
“Pictures” is the second single off of my upcoming EP but it’ll actually be the first song on the project. This is actually an older song I wrote over COVID, and I first posted about it back in September of 2020…
Lyrically the song is pretty direct so there isn’t much metaphor to explain, but at the time I was talking to a lady who for reasons I’m not going to ramble about, I was just a bit hesitant to really express how I felt to her. The whole situation was honestly just kind of embarrassing, both in the moment and as I look back on it, and I’d like to think I’ve done a lot of growing up since then (and hopefully the other person in questions has too) and also lets face it, it was a pretty weird time in the world and maybe we were all acting a little strange? Anyway I’m going way off topic and also speaking pretty vague so most of you have just sort of tuned out by now so I’m going to try and wrap this back into something of substance…
I just sort of found myself in this awkward position of communicating with this person who I grew to really care about, and felt deeply invested in and entranced by, but not being able to say the things I really wanted to. It was that thing where you talk to them and hope that they’ll just magically realize how you feel and then you won’t actually have to say it and then it all just works out. But clearly that never happens.
So I wrote this song after legitimately taking pictures around my neighborhood during a walk I was on to send to this person for fun because I’m smooth, and it’s inspired by that walk that I took, and trying to dance around saying the things you actually want to say to someone you’re in love with but can’t.
The goal was to write it from the perspective of me actually talking to this person, and it’s like the listener just jumped into the middle of our conversation. I aimed to make all of the lyrics close to actual observations I would’ve been having around that time, including a neighbor of mine who was growing a garden, and the leaves slowly beginning to change. And I tried to make each thing I said have some sort of a double meaning…so that at face value, this person would think I’m just describing my day to her…but if you read into the lines a bit more they could actually be inferred to being the things I really want to say.
I tired recording this song back in 2022 but it just wasn’t coming out in a way that felt right, but I revisited it earlier this year and we found a version that felt good. I’ll be releasing a solo acoustic version of this one as well so you can hear what it sounded like at its inception.
Thank you all again so much for being here, and I hope you enjoy this first listen, and I hope you’ll still listen and share it tomorrow when it’s officially out! Talk to you soon.
-Aaron