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Anywhere Else

by Siv Jakobsen

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Anywhere Else is a song about anxiety. Not the panicky, all-consuming kind that often results in a severe physical reaction, but a smoldering and quiet sort of anxiety, a sort of uncomfortable buzzing in the body that never quite leaves you be. It took me many years to understand that this also is a form of anxiety. It can be relatively quiet, but it's there - always. This has had me in a soft grip for a long while, and I wrote Anywhere Else before I understood what it really was that I was experiencing. I thought it was normal to feel a bubbling sense of fear almost all the time. It can make me have a hard time deciding seemingly small things like what I'm going to eat, where I'm going to go on a walk, what coffee shop I'm going to go to, what I should wear, what I should do with my day, etc. It's a constant that I've felt for most of my life, without really understanding it or believing it to be anything but ordinary. I've decided to release Anywhere Else at this time as it feels extra potent for me at the moment, with so many of us feeling a lot of uncertainty and fear about what's happening. I hope it can provide some comfort.

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I’ve got my license
But I’m scared of driving
So I keep walking everywhere
I’m scared of dying
Scared of breaking
Scared of killing someone else along my way

Oh I don’t know how to rid myself of fear
So I keep walking
It takes me so long to get anywhere else but here

I read the news sites
And throw my sense out
Ponder tragedies and pains as if they’re mine
And I told my doctor
She says I’m too well
I’m not ill enough for help to keep me sane

Oh I don’t know how to rid myself of fear
So I keep walking
It takes me so long to get anywhere else but here

Oh it follows me about my day
Keeps me captive and out of range

Oh I don’t know how to rid myself of fear
So I keep walking
It takes me so long to get anywhere else but here

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released May 22, 2020

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