Back in the day, I loved the most well known song by The Flaming Lips, Do You Realise, on first hearing. It captures the brevity and beauty of life with such lovely poignancy - by, among other things, stating the bleeding obvious - “Do you realise that everyone you know someday will die”.

I had never heard anybody say anything like that before. I think it made me feel less weird about my own love affair with staring hard truths in the face with as much honesty and open-ness as I could muster. Perhaps it wasn’t such a crazy thing to do, after all. Maybe it could actually be a helpful and positive way of approaching life.

Miss You When You Go is a song that continues in that tradition. This one was a co-write with my songwriting friend Dave Harris. I’ve hardly ever played it, and listening to it now makes me want to relearn it. Which I’m going to do as soon as I finish today’s blog.

OK, I’m done.


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