It’s hard to not think of a human existence when listening to this song. When I listen to songs I try and piece together chronologically everything that’s ever happened to me– birthdays and funerals, weddings and break-ups, workdays and trips abroad, all of it. Songs of the amazing will to evoke our deepest emotions. It can heal us, make us sad, make us happy and inspire us.
Anthony and the Johnson’s Hope There’s Someone, is where we experience the fullness of a lifespan in a few overpowering minutes. As the listener it is hard for us to not think about death, to wonder where we will go after this life and who will look after us when we are gone? Its is incredibly beautiful as it is also about love and letting go, letting go of a loved one perhaps? One of the lines reads “So he’s hoping I will not drown” this would work well in my performance, in regards to Virginia’s Suicide.