You Are So Beautiful To Us

Múm “Sing Along”

I imagine a lot of the thrill of being a band and going on tour comes from the validation of seeing people respond to your music with a positive familiarity. These are the songs they love, and they’ve come to see you perform them in the hope of some kind of communion with the music, and with you. This isn’t always what happens, though. A lot of the time you’re just playing for people who have no particular interest in you, and you have to try to win them over, and try to get them to sing along to songs they don’t know. This song is specific to this experience, but I think there’s something universal in this as well, at least as much in that we’re all going through life with the hope that people will understand and appreciate us, and even if you go into every experience with the fullest, most hopeful heart, you’re constantly risking rejection and indifference. This is a song about putting everything on the line, and staying optimistic against all reason that one of these days people are going to start singing along with you.

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