介绍： Take Yourself Home 🎹

[Chorus]

I'm tired of the city, scream if you're with me
【戳爷注释】The first lyric is about L.A. I just was questioning everything and, I have a really close relationship with my family and my friends back in Australia. I just kind of turned around and I was like, this place is not...

介绍： Take Yourself Home 🎹

[Chorus]

I'm tired of the city, scream if you're with me
【戳爷注释】The first lyric is about L.A. I just was questioning everything and, I have a really close relationship with my family and my friends back in Australia. I just kind of turned around and I was like, this place is not for me, dude. I think for me I miss the community the most, like the sense of community. I don’t really have that in LA. I really like when I’m in Melbourne, which is where I am right now.
Yesterday I was helping my sister edit something. I’m like working on music with my little brother, like helping him set up his logic and stuff like that. Then I’m refurbishing furniture with my dad. It’s a much more selfless lifestyle. You’re kind of constantly thinking about your neighbor and the person that you live with and how can you help and stuff. In L.A. I just kind of chill by myself and think about my work and music, it doesn’t really feel like a fulfilling experience.

If I'm gonna die, let's die somewhere pretty, ah, ah-ah
【戳爷注释】I think for that lyric it’s just about, my life is going by, and I am happy with how it’s all going, don’t get me wrong. I’m stoked with my job and everything like that. But it’s, I was having these conversations of, okay, well if I’m on my deathbed, God forbid, if I’m on my death bed, did I spend my life in a place where I wanted to? Did I spend it with the people that I wanted to? So it’s like, “Okay, well if we’re all going to die at some point and if I’m going to die, where do I want to do that?” Who do I want to be with?"

Sad in the summer, city needs a mother
【戳爷注释】LA, it’s summer all the time. And anytime you wake up and you’re not feeling yourself and then you look outside and it’s this perfect blue sky and you feel you should feel better and you feel you should have these friends, and you should be doing all these fun things. Then when you’re not, it makes it even more lonely. So yeah, that was tough. And then, “City needs a mother,” again, it just comes from, I think coming from where I come from and the environment I come from and the tight-knit Jewish community that I come from in Australia. It’s so family-orientated, and then I have none of that in LA. So for me it’s just trying to understand, and then trying to find some sort of resemblance of family.

If I'm gonna waste my time, then it's time to go
Take yourself home
【戳爷注释】Well it’s interesting because the whole self-isolation thing, and me coming back to Australia, has made me realize something that I’ve sort of wondered about for a while. Which is that I can really do what I do from anywhere in the world. And so it’s like, “Okay, I’m in LA because I feel like I have to be here, but do I really?” And if I’m just sitting here wasting time, if this is stuff that I could do from Australia, then I’d rather go home and do it from there. At least then I’ll have something, I’ll have my work and I’ll have some sort of emotional fulfillment to show for it. So yeah, that’s what that one’s about.

[Verse 1]

Talk to me
There's nothing that can't be fixed with some honesty
【戳爷注释】I think that right now, honesty is paramount when it comes to dealing with so much. And I think that we’re seeing that in a very, very real tangible, awful way right now. I think watching the way that different countries have handled this crisis, the honest upfront approach of like, “Okay shit, we’ve got a problem, let’s deal with it right away, immediately as a nation together,” compared to like, “Oh, it’s no big deal. People die from the flu, whatever,” all that bullshit. You can see now in the numbers, the two different approaches and how that honesty makes all the difference in the world.So, yeah, it definitely feels very relevant. But when I wrote it, it was just me too myself, me to some of the relationships in my life, just being like, “Okay, I know that this is really, really tough, but let’s have this conversation,” like maybe it’s time to start having this conversation.

And how it got this dark is just beyond to me
【戳爷注释】I just really like this lyric because I love the colloquialism of like, “This coffee table is beyond,” I hear the Kardashians say it all the time. And it just made me really happy to be like, “This is just beyond to me,” I do not understand how this happened. It felt cute.

If anyone can hear me, switch the lights, oh, oh
【戳爷注释】I think for me switching the lights can be anything from going for a walk with my dog, calling my family. Hanging out with friends, speaking of friends that have known me my whole life, there’s so much light in my life and I’m such a lucky person. I’m really, really grateful for so much. And so it’s just about readjusting and focusing on those things.

And happiness
Is right there where you lost it when you took the bet
【戳爷注释】There’s a lot of sacrifice when you go after the things that you want. And it’s a tough balance to find, like, “Okay, I’m going to go for this because it makes me happy and I love it, and I want to do it and I’m going to make the move to X or whatever. I’m going to go into this job or I’m going to really go for this relationship or whatever.” And then there’s a moment, sometimes where you have to turn around and be like, “Oh no, I was actually happier before.”

Counting all the losses that you can't collect
【戳爷注释】That’s thinking back to all of the moments that you miss. It’s like, “Okay, cool, so fair enough. I got to do this or I made it to this point and I made X amount of dollars or whatever,” but what moments did you miss with the people that you care about? So it was just, it was about weighing that up and trying to figure out like, “Okay, am I doing the right thing right now?” Because, yeah, at that time I just really wasn’t sure.

Got everything and nothing in my life
【戳爷注释】I think that’s just that balancing act of like, okay, cool. We did it. We got everything that I’ve ever wanted on paper. And now it’s time to reevaluate, who do I have around me right now to celebrate this with? And why do I feel the way that I do? And again, just me being a dramatic. Having a sulk, basically.

[Chorus]

I'm tired of the city, scream if you're with me
If I'm gonna die, let's die somewhere pretty, ah, ah-ah
Sad in the summer, city needs a mother
If I'm gonna waste my time, then it's time to go
Take yourself home
Take yourself home

[Verse 2]

Who you really tryna be when they see your face?
Is it worth it tryna win in a losing game?
【戳爷注释】This song is kind of also about materialism. And you’re always going to want more, and you’re always going to compare yourself to others, and kind of feel like you’re on this rat race. So you’re never going to win. Right? There’s always going to be someone who’s doing better or doing whatever, or you always could have more people listening to your music or whatever. Or be at a better job, or whatever. And so now once you’ve acknowledged that, it’s like, “Okay, well, so then who are you trying to be?” Not what are you trying to get? What are you trying to achieve? It’s like, “What kind of person do you want to be remembered as?”

Well, it's all waiting for you
And boy, I know you're eager
But it just might destroy you
Destroy you, yeah

[Chorus]

I'm tired of the city, scream if you're with me
If I'm gonna die, let's die somewhere pretty, ah, ah-ah
Sad in the summer, city needs a mother
If I'm gonna waste my time, then it's time to go
Take yourself home
Take yourself home

[Bridge]

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Take yourself home
Home, oh

[Instrumental Outro]