According to the The A Soft Place To Land Songfacts Edwards' father is Leonard Edwards, a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. As a result she spent portions of her teenage years in Korea and Switzerland. Her blend of country, folk and pop music made her a favourite of music critics, and a rising star on radio in 2003 with her debut album, Failer, made popular by her hit singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates" Her style of music is sometimes placed in the music genre "alt-country".
In 1999, Edwards recorded a six-song EP entitled Building 55 and pressed 500 copies. By the fall of 2000, she was on tour across Canada managing her own gigs. In 2001 she wrote seven of the ten songs for her 2003 debut release Failer.
Edwards married musician and producer Colin Cripps in 2004. They later divorced.
In 2005, Edwards released Back to Me, which also garnered considerable critical acclaim, and led to the release of the singles "Back to Me" and "In State". The track "Summerlong" also featured on the soundtrack of the movie Elizabethtown starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.
In 2006, she was nominated for Juno Awards for Songwriter of the Year and Adult Alternative Album of the Year for Back to Me.
On March 4, 2008, her new CD, Asking for Flowers, arrived to excellent reviews.
Her fourth album, Voyageur, was released on January 17, 2012.
Somewhere Else
Kathleen Edwards Lyrics
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I took highways, and side streets, and back lanes,
Slept under open skies.
Life can be cruel,
Life can be sweet, if I want it to be.
This town that I once called home,
I just can't hold on to.
I would never even talk to.
She said life can be sweet,
But life is so cruel, 'cause I let it be.
(Chorus)
Everybody out here,
They wanna live somewhere else.
I wish I could find a place,
And stay there by myself.
Bit by bit I swear I think I'm losing,
All this city's confidence.
(Chorus)
I swear I've lost all this city's confidence.
The Kathleen Edwards song "Somewhere Else" speaks to the feeling of searching for something more in life, and feeling lost in a world that doesn't quite fit. The singer sings of a time when they used to search for something, someone, out in the daylight, taking different paths in hopes of finding it. They sang of sleeping under open skies, which may either hint at a sense of freedom or a lack of a stable home, possibly both.
The chorus finds the singer feeling disillusioned with their current surroundings, wanting to find a place where they can be alone and content. But they almost sound resigned to their fate of feeling lost, singing "bit by bit I swear I think I'm losing, all this city's confidence." Overall, the lyrics convey a sense of longing for something more, but also a sense of defeat in the struggle to find it.
Line by Line Meaning
I used to look for you out in the daylight,
In the past, I used to search for you during the day, in different areas like the highways, and spots that are rarely used by people where I can sleep outdoors under the beautiful sky.
Life can be cruel,
The world is a harsh place, and it always finds a way to put us down and make things difficult.
Life can be sweet, if I want it to be.
Despite the challenges of the world, I can always find a way to be happy and joyful if I choose to be.
This town that I once called home,
This city that I used to love and think of it as a home to me,
It's got strip malls, and bus stops, and people
However, the city is now full of shopping centers, stations, and people that I find difficult to communicate with.
I would never even talk to.
I do not have good reasons to communicate with those people.
She said life can be sweet,
Someone told me that life is sometimes wonderful and amazing,
But life is so cruel, 'cause I let it be.
But life is tough and harsh because the way I treat and handle it.
Everybody out here,
All the people here,
They wanna live somewhere else.
they desire to reside in another place besides this city.
I wish I could find a place,
I wish I could discover a location,
And stay there by myself.
and have the solitude of spending time all by myself.
Bit by bit I swear I think I'm losing,
Gradually, I'm starting to feel that I'm wasting away and losing something important,
All this city's confidence.
which is my confidence in this particular town.
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