iloveghosts new song, wolfbabycup remix and random memories.
May 3, 2025
I’m going through old digital backups looking for art we can use for a new song we recorded. The filename on this photo is called “allfourdecent”. I remember we did a photoshoot with our friend Todd, and we had hundreds of photos to choose from. Each of us found something about every photo of ourselves we didn’t like, but this one at least we felt was ok at the time, although I don’t think we ever used it for anything. Looking back at how young and gorgeous we were, I can’t help but feel a sense of loss at not truly appreciating all that at the time. Making music now, worrying about my age and when I’m going to be too old to keep doing this, racing against some clock to do something before it’s too late, I remember even then having that feeling, like at 20 something I already aged out. Such a silly thing to worry about.
A few months(years?) ago the four of us got together and made some music together. Ross recorded it and lovingly mixed it into something that sounds like it could have been recorded by these 4 kids all those years ago. I think we were channeling what we used to feel when we were together back then. We had so much fun making music and playing shows, and we had the most amazing group of friends. Between the basement where we practiced, the porch, house parties and the rave parties - everywhere we went was full of people we loved and loved to be with. Of course times like that can’t last forever. We knew that then, and I think we truly did live like being together and living the most we could every day was all that mattered. But still, the end came slowly, almost imperceptibly, until one day it was just all gone.
Everyone moved away, had families, kids, got careers, got married, moved on. Most of us I think moved on to something better, something you can’t really do when you're partying all the time with your friends living every day like it’s all that mattered. My brother, for example, made a family. He created four lives and is nurturing them and they are infinitely more beautiful and important than any music we could have made together. Others struggled to move on. Some of the brightest stars died young.
I think all four of us were feeling this energy when we recorded this song. The lyrics came fast and fully formed, and for me captured what I was feeling as well as I could. More than anything I was missing everyone and feeling my responsibility for moving on and leaving them behind - whether physically, when I moved to Minneapolis, or just going through the process of trying to find what to do after being in a band and finding new passions, and letting them find theirs.
This song is dedicated to our friends, fans and lovers we found and lost along the way. We miss you and love you and will never forget you and hope someday we can meet again.
Together by iloveghosts
All this time
I left you all behind
I feel it now
We’re running out of time
Between tomorrow and yesterday
Take the time to memorize the distance from the ones we lost together on the way
I feel it now
There’s something left to find
It’s in me now
We’re running out of time
Between tomorrow and yesterday
Take the time to memorize the distance from the ones we lost together on the way
