It’s been said that people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. While this can mean many different things to different people, it is equally true when it comes to love.
Ontario-based singer-songwriter Dan Young takes us on a journey of what it’s like to fall in love for a short season that leaves us reminiscing about those “what ifs” and summer loves of the past. The second single from Young’s upcoming album, “I’m Not Worried At All,” which is due out this coming September, “Some Other Lives” drops today, just in time for spring and summer flings to run their course.
Nothing shy of personal experience, Dan shares some inspiration for this ballad that easily pulls on our heartstrings: “I think we’ve all met someone where we thought ‘man, we’d be perfect for each other except…’ You know, you’re kept apart by circumstances. If only I met you five years from now, or we lived on the same continent – if only we met in some other lives. I really lived this one. Met someone wonderful, but we lived across the country and neither of us could see that ever changing. It’s a unique kind of sadness because you don’t regret anything, there’s nothing you would or could have changed – you’re just left to imagine how it might have looked if everything was different.”
Harmonized beautifully by Toronto artist Alanna Matty, “Some Other Lives” shares fleeting moments between a love-struck couple knowing their story would end in this life, whilst holding on to that ever-hopeful thought of having a parallel universe where these kinds of things play out differently. Simply captured in these lines, “But the cards ain’t in our lives, we ain’t husbands, we ain’t wives / And I guess you got to play the hand you’re dealt,” the truth of the season versus a lifetime of this union is revealed.
Dan and Alanna are a perfect pair in this song as they seemingly dance around each other’s voices about a love that they wished they could hold on to, but one perhaps not meant to be, “Maybe in some other lives we woulda worked it out … Maybe in some other lives, but not in ours.”
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Jess has always enjoyed a wide range of music genres and eras. Connecting deeply with classical music, she played cello from grade school through high school, and although no longer actively playing, her affinity for finding an emotional connection to music is still strong. Residing in central PA, she is new to the Canadian music scene and enjoys listening to new artists as a way to break away from “the usual.” Jess is an avid yogi who often finds a sliver of peace while on the yoga mat with good music playing in the background.
