Someone New

I'm loving this song by Hozier right now because it's me (in so many ways). I love to people watch on the Tube and on the street, earphones in my ear and music playing. I can't hear them, but I watch them. People. I love strangers, the stranger the better. Someone new every day. The people I most like talking to on the Internet are people I've never met, some of whom I've "known" for years, some for no time at all. I like the world at a little bit of a distance. I like first meetings. I like random encounters. I like anonymous banter. I like to play at questions. I regret nothing. I regret everything.

Honestly, I've been feeling very disconnected lately. Like...the conversations I have with family, with friends, all those in-person words exchanged...it's all about nothing and no one. Repetition (yes, I heard you). Agreement (yes, I see). Inconsequential, transient. The little man upon the stair who wasn't there (still the saddest story I've ever read, thank you very much Mr. Brown). I don't feel like I have real conversations any more. I don't tell anyone my dreams. I live in my head too much. Obviously. And I do crave connection, I suppose, but I also keep it at arms length. But every day, I fall in love just a little bit. Just a bit.

Someone New

Go take this the wrong way
You knew who I was with every step that I ran to you
Only blue or black days
Electing strange perfections is in any stranger I choose

Would things be easier if there was a right way
Honey, there is no right way

And so I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new

There's an art to life's distractions
To somehow escape the burning weight
The art of scraping through
Some like to imagine
The dark caress of someone else I guess any thrill will do

Would things be easier
If there was a right way, honey there is no right way

And so I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new

I wake, at the first cringe of morning
And my heart's already sinned
How pure, how sweet the love beneath it yeah
You would pray for him

'Cause God knows I fall
In love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day

Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better
Love with every stranger, the stranger the better

And so I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new
I fall in love just a little ol' little bit
Every day with someone new

Songwriters: Andrew Hozier Byrne / Sallay-Matu Garnett