I'm Okay, You're Fine (Started in Jun.19 2016 Finished in April of 2018)

from Time (Demos) by JayWood

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This song was actually the last song I was lyrically able to finish for the album. All the instrumentation and the song structure were finished by 2016 but the words weren't done until 2018. It sat in a difficult part of the album, I had to really talk about going down the right path in life and leaving a lot of the negative things behind.

HEAVY MOMENT!
In early 2018 I wasn't going through the best time in my life. It felt like no part of my life was well and I was just really unhappy. That situation landed me in the Crisis centre which led to me having to go to the hospital. I wasn't able to work or see friends for a while, I was really really depressed. In that bad episode, I remember my thoughts just showing me all the wrong things that happened in my life and the negative emotions I had towards people. Nothing good.

But as time passed and I was slowly coming out of that bad episode, I had a weird sense of "ego death" a version of myself was gone and everything from that point was gonna be different whether I liked it or not. I had to change, otherwise I would wind back up in that current situation.

So! "I'm Okay" that was a phrase I used a lot when I was re-entering the world, I'm okay and taking care of myself. I hope "You're Fine" when you're around me and I don't bring you down too much. Thats what the song titled meant at the time. I hope it has a different meaning now

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Dreaming never satisfied this feeling
i'm glad there's something to push through
dreaming out of hope right to the ceiling
life has left me black and blue

but all I know is I want to, all I know is I want to

Dreaming never cared if I could get there
just holding out here, day by day
now even I know there's a higher meaning
soulless drifting on this wave

but all I know is I want to, all I know is I want to

Yeah~ I'm okay
it's hard to know who's standing there
when I can see you're fine x2

Even though I can tell myself to remember
Does it really mean survival by myself?
Even though I can tell myself to remember

Dreaming never satisfied this feeling~~~
i'm glad there's something to push through
well even I know there's a higher meaning
life has left me black and blue
well all I know is I want to, all I know is I want to (repeat)

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from Time (Demos), released June 7, 2020

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JayWood Winnipeg, Manitoba

JayWood is Jeremy Haywood-Smith

From Winnipeg MB

What started as bedroom "sad jangle pop songs" just singing about how sad or miserable he was, things slowly started to change as time went into the more "psych funk" sound that is shown today! ... more

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