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I Don't Belong Here

by Dan Aston

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I wrote ‘I Don’t Belong Here’ in the late-night hours while out in an unfamiliar city and feeling somewhat worse for wear. Finding myself alone at the end of the night, I felt a profound sense of dissatisfaction with where my life was heading and who I was becoming as a person.

This sense of alienation drove me to make positive changes and ultimately write this song. It’s a song about acknowledging when you need to shake things up, get back on track, and return to chasing dreams you once yearned for. It’s an appropriate companion piece to my previous single, ‘Map the Stars’, which came out earlier this year.

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The sunrise is a stranger
and I can’t recall the name
of the bar I just walked out of,
but I must have handed over at least
twenty in loose change
to satisfy the bill.
My thirst, it ain’t quenched yet,
I doubt it ever will be.

I’m walking lonely through the night
as it turns to day.
I’m drifting away,
I don’t belong here.

Ghosts looking forwards,
bones behind my back.
Everything I think about
just strays me from the track
that I try so hard to stick to,
but the road is never easy.
Will I find a way
to stay true to what I used to be?

I’m walking lonely through the night
as it turns to day.
I’m drifting away,
I don’t belong here.

Overthinking what is simple,
seeing scars where there was never pain,
feeling fears I can’t relate to
that pound around my brain.
Anxiety and sorrow march hand in hand
to the solemn national anthem
that echoes through this land.

I’m dreaming lonely through the night
as it turns to day.
I’m slipping away,
I don’t belong here.

credits

released July 22, 2022
Written, performed, and produced by Dan Aston. Mastered by Jasper Ward at AIR Studios. Illustration by Yornelys Zambrano.

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Dan Aston Cornwall, UK

Dan Aston is a singer-songwriter based in Cornwall. His original music has been featured on BBC Radio 6 Music by Tom Robinson, as well as BBC Introducing. ‘I Don’t Belong Here’ is the second in a series of singles set for release in 2022, with a brand-new EP also on the horizon. The first single of the year, ‘Map the Stars’, was released in May. ... more

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