Where Does The Love Go? (Track by Track)

Where Does The Love Go? is as much a song

As it is a question, ah... Where does the love go, when it's not us?

I started ah working on this song in the summer

I have this really great memory of being in a lobby

In Amarillo, Texas with Kim Churchill

And I was trying different keys of the song and

I felt like that's where the song was really discovered

And then I played it live in Santa Fe, New Mexico

And had a call and response with the crowd

Which people who come to the shows know that

This song is very call and response live

But it didn't really fit that on the record

So, there's a great point of difference with this song

On the record versus live and, I was reflecting personally on

Where does the love go when it's not us?

I think the love does disappear if we don't embody it

And so that's the the responsibility and maybe

Some influence from my Buddhist readings, um

My little yellow Buddhist book that I take everywhere with me

Is that we have to try wherever possible and embody love and

And take it as our responsibility and then hopefully

The next person does and the next person does

One of my favourite lines from this song is is the opening

Because it's meant to be a paradox

It's talking about the problem and then

Being a part of the problem

And so just being so literal and a bit ah

Risque in lyric choice, um

It's a real challenge for me and when I'm live and

I'm singing this song I always feel a bit shy

But it's like a good challenge to push myself and

That's maybe some influence from the lyrics of

So many people not the least like Noah Kahan

Or Matt Healey in the 1975, where they're

Just pushing the boundaries a bit and

Yeah, this song is a song I always play live on tour

It's one of my favourite songs on the record and yeah

That's the story