Info fro… Read Full Bio ↴Postdata is the solo project of Paul Murphy of Wintersleep.
Info from his website:
These are my grandparents. They passed away two years ago and left me thirty or forty pieces of songs in a series of dreams, not Coleridge-esque opium dreams though unfortunately, just regular dreams. Kinda sad dreams. This is for them.
This is their daughter, my mother. I call her mom though, not mother. This is for her.
This is my father. Sometimes he feels left out. This is for you too dad.
This is my stomach.
This is me.
I started working on this record a couple of years ago at my parents' house in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia with my brother Michael.
This is Michael.
We had a little too much time on our hands. Some scotch too. We wanted to make a present for mom. She'd had a tough year. With little preparation (a laptop, no microphones, click tracks, or even tuners come to think of it), we recorded about 12 ideas and we went our separate ways.
Eight months later we found a free weekend in Halifax and tried the same thing, reworking a cluster of songs from the first session and adding four extra songs to the workload. We used the same laptop, but this time we rented actual, real microphones and we used click tracks for a few songs and tuners for the most part. We think. Maybe a little less scotch this time around.
Some of the songs turned out to be fuller and more mature after a second take, better than expected. Other songs maybe didn't quite hit the mark. But the recording as a whole, the half-finished, early conception somewhat fragmented material, seems to do something quite nice.
Hope you like it.
These are the words of Paul Murphy. You may know him from Wintersleep and you may feel drawn to the haunted melodies of Postdata as you are drawn to the puzzling pieces of your own dreams. With questions like “Are you in outer space” and musings about “fallen stars in the big black belly of the Universe” Postdata floats above the terra firma where “expired antibiotics” and “empty spray cans” inhabit the planet. From this vantage point of dream flight an otherworldly vision of what ties us to our own gravity emerges. In Chemicals asks if we can be “disinfected” and “resurrected”, Tracers is “ten thousand pages in the wind”, “trading eyes for rocks and sand”, and Tobias Grey is “post it notes randomly placed”. Drift talks about names written in the concrete that were “meant to be read” and just as the waking world starts to creep back in The Coroner seems to want the listener to stay safe in reverie as the words “lie down with me” repeat.
Sometimes we have to close our eyes to see. Times like these.
Inside Out
Postdata Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
Yeah you're my queen
The arctic melting in your atmosphere
Whisper in your ear
You're all I dream
You're everything I fear
You're all that I fear
But I don't fear you I just want to be near you
I love you from the inside out
I love you let your inside out
A language twisting in the dark my dear
We are who we are
Shoulders & tongues & toes & teeth & tears
Vertiginous stars
I said I feared but it was never fear
It was not that I feared you
It was the feeling I was falling clearly but I just didn't care
I love you from the inside out
I love you let your inside out
I wanna love let your inside
I wanna love you let your inside out
I want to love let your inside out
I want to love you let your inside out
All that's inside you
All that's alive
Love only lights
If you let it out
I only love from the inside out
I only love from the inside out
The lyrics to Postdata's song "Inside Out" are deeply emotional and raw, conveying a powerful message about the complexities of love and the fear of vulnerability that often accompanies it. The singer begins by stating that they will love until they disappear, indicating a deep commitment and willingness to give their all to their partner. The metaphor of the Arctic melting in their partner's atmosphere is a powerful one, suggesting the intensity of their love and the transformative effect it has on their partner's life. The singer acknowledges that their partner is everything they fear, but at the same time, they do not fear them - rather, they want to be near them and touch them.
The singer goes on to describe the relationship as a "language twisting in the dark," a vivid metaphor for the way in which they navigate the complexities of their emotional connection. They are accepting of each other's imperfections and embrace all aspects of themselves, from their shoulders and tongues to their tears and emotions. The singer admits that they may have believed they were afraid of their partner, but in reality, they were only afraid of falling and losing control. They tell their partner that they only love from the inside out, suggesting that their love is deeper and more profound than mere surface-level affection or attraction.
Overall, the lyrics to "Inside Out" are a potent exploration of the many facets of love, including its potential to be both transformative and frightening. The singer offers themselves up fully to their partner, navigating the complexities of the relationship with honesty and vulnerability.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm going to love til I disappear
I am going to keep loving you until I vanish
Yeah you're my queen
You are my queen, my ruler
The arctic melting in your atmosphere
You have such an effect that even the cold/arctic is melting around you
Whisper in your ear
I will share a private message with you by speaking softly into your ear
You're all I dream
All my dreams only revolve around you
You're everything I fear
You scare me because you mean everything to me
You're all that I fear
You are the only thing that I find scary
But I don't fear you I just want to be near you
I am not scared of you, but I just want to be close to you
To touch you right here
I want to physically touch you, probably in a sensitive area
I love you from the inside out
I love you for who you are internally and not superficially
I love you let your inside out
I love you for being yourself and expressing your inner self
A language twisting in the dark my dear
A language which is twisting, turning, unclear and barely visible, my love
We are who we are
We are only ourselves and nothing else
Shoulders & tongues & toes & teeth & tears
Different parts and expressions of the body which represent us as a whole
Vertiginous stars
Dizzying stars, probably due to their brightness or beauty
I said I feared but it was never fear
I claimed to be afraid but it was not really fear
It was not that I feared you
I did not truly frighten you
It was the feeling I was falling clearly but I just didn't care
I was sensing that I was losing myself but I did not pay attention to it
I wanna love let your inside
I want to let your inner self express love
I wanna love you let your inside out
I want to love you for being yourself and expressing your inner self
I want to love let your inside out
I want to love you for expressing your inner self
All that's inside you
Everything that exists inside of you
All that's alive
All of the parts of you that make you alive and real
Love only lights
Love illuminates everything
If you let it out
If you allow your love to flourish and shine outwards
I only love from the inside out
I only love people for who they are internally, and not superficially
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Paul Murphy
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@jsilverchannel
The album is fantastic!
@ramitche11
So good.
@DJAndyAllnighter
Amazing ♥️♥️♥️
@nicbrunet4359
Love his voice. This album is my favourite solo album of his to date.
@adminsfm
Saludos desde Lima Perú :) 😎
@blueskys6265
cool song