The Elsewheres Top 4 Moments in the Story of ‘Move’

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The Elsewheres Top 4 Moments in the Story of ‘Move’

1 - “You said meet me in the kitchen”

Our eyes met 8 years ago. Introduced innocuously as a friend of my cousin. We were staying at my relative’s house in Tassie the week leading up to Falls Festival. It was instant. The second night she messaged me to meet her in the kitchen. Rushing down I found her holding her bleeding finger over the sink. Wrapping that band-aid around her was the first time she held my hand.

2 -  “I wrote you letters I’ll never read ya”

We only had a week before the plane absconded with her back to Newcastle. She left me with a kiss and a longing that kept me company for years. Over the following months, I wrote her letters. Never posted. Two years later she visited me in Richmond. Left a note that read “I love you. Forever and always.” I was with someone else at the time so we simply stood in my doorway. Closer than we’d been in years and still too far.

3 - “We’ve been chasing this loose thread for years, can we finally sew it through?”

So we pined through the years. Phone calls on New Year’s Eve, messages, the occasional visit. Eventually, I began to roll myself on. With time I looked back fondly on the intensity of that passion. Songs began flooding from me. They could have told her so many things. Move was the last one I wrote her, it said the only thing that mattered.

4 - “Say yes darling, and let’s just make our move”

Despite all the writing I had done, I never did respond to her note. So once I had finished Move, and we had decided to record it I knew that I would send it to her. Where is she now? Who is she now? I don’t know. The girl I fell for is a memory. Nonetheless, I told her the truth. “I will love you forever and always.”

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