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Acting My Age

from Ghostlight Sessions by Adrian Glynn

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Like a lotta people, smell has always been pretty linked to memory for me. I even used to buy a deodorant stick for any trip in a distant country, to be locked in a box upon my return home and not sniffed for at least a decade, to see what memories it might conjure up. The first love of my life, when I was 15/16, used a particular kind of apple-y shampoo which I’d never come across anywhere else until one day in a supermarket I got a huge whiff from a woman that walked by and with it a huge whiff of ancient teenage love memories. Out came this song.

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Somewhere I left a light on digging through the house of ancient memory
Somewhere, the pink perfume of someone else’s hair
And I could see you standing there
Standing in your parents’ house, just your mother’s girl
A morning tub with your matted curls
My teenaged hands on your soapy skin, fingers in the lather

I swore to myself that I’d always remember
Remember everything

Somewhere I left a light on thick behind the door but we bury this away
Let it carry on in ghosts
I tried to keep these moments, squirrel them away,
I tried a thousand ways, I thought a thousand times
Of stolen wine and backyard tents, my brother’s songs on old cassettes
I made it up as I got it wrong, I was hoping you’d help me along
With the life of love that lay ahead but it was only you in a childhood bed
And I named your breasts, stamped your skin,
Counted moles like I was saving tin just to battle time and my lazy head
That I thought would not surrender

I swore to myself that I’d always remember
Remember everything

Every light I’ve kept behind the door
Tells me friendship isn’t quite what love is for

I smile that I promised to love you forever
I was acting my age

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from Ghostlight Sessions, released June 19, 2020

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Adrian Glynn Vancouver, British Columbia

Adrian’s 5th solo album tracks the story of his Ukrainian grandparents’ flight from their homeland in the 1940s, to settle in Montreal. Adrian is a songwriter based in Vancouver and has released more than 8 critically acclaimed albums, both solo and with his folk band, The Fugitives. He has been nominated for a JUNO Award and multiple Western Canadian Music Awards and Canadian Folk Music Awards. ... more

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