Emilíana Torrini - Serenade 🎵

Two posts today. Feel like we could do with it.

2005 - whattayear huh? Look at us! Babies burned by heartache and traumatic situations, fumbling on the rocks of life. I was living in London at the time. #nosleep #grindin (insert Clipse-Neptunes beats here)

This song walked me from my home-which-wasn’t-really-my-home in Harlesden at the time, to Willesden Junction to catch the tube. To be honest i switched between this record and Bloc Party (any) depending on anxiety level and how much fight i needed to muster. This mp3 experience was portable thanks to my chonky 4th gen ipod classic which i treasured.

Anyhoo, this balm eased me into the Bakerloo Line, able to show up to my day job following an all nighter of side hustles, find space to process, or at least, lean on something i could trust a while.

Oh, did we dive too deep here?
Ok let’s switch this, and divert to a live performance which is equally beautiful.

🎈Funfact: in 2006 i wrote a script for a short which i called “Serenade” and it was very earnest and lolz-cringe but…i miss that part of me sometimes, you know? I mean, i’m still cringe but i digress. I miss sharing script with director friends and getting lost in details of our dream projects. I’m going to go hunt for that script…

So, some encouragement then, to remember a little bit of younger you today. Think it helps in uncertain times. You made it this far. We will make it through and, if i may quote Emilíana,

“The morrow will heal the night so…” 

We will make it through tough times again. Loop, loop and loop that again. Cause everything’s a cycle my friend. Every. Thing.

Here’s a podcast episode about just that in case it’s useful.

Onward then!

Playlist below but for now i’ll paste the lyrics in here:

New world forming 
Picturesque in its stance 
Midnight calling 
Moonlight shadows start to dance 

For the dark finds ways of being 
Engraved in the light 
And the heart bears indentations 
Of yesterdays hurting child 
The now we will run with smiles 
The morrow will heal the night so 
Morning comes 
Midnight make fast with the sun 
I can hear my name be reborn 
On the cloud within the sky beneath the dawn 

Oh I 
Serenade the dawn 
Serenade the dawn 
Serenade the dawn 

For the dark finds ways of being 
Engraved in the light 
And the heart bears indentations 
Of yesterdays hurting child 
The now we will run with smiles 
The morrow will heal the night so 
Morning comes 
Midnight make fast with the sun 
I can hear my name be reborn 
On the cloud within the sky beneath the dawn 

Oh I 
Serenade the dawn 
Serenade the dawn 
Serenade the dawn 

………..

Remember, you can find the Spotify playlist for ‘Song for You’ over here.

Thank you for being here! As always, just hit reply to this mail and let me know what you think, and FEEL and of course, what you’re listening to!

Love galore,

dionne x