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if i knew how (with Cam Gallant)


Lyrics:
 

Staring at your post from yesterday
All I wish I could see is your face
Haven’t talked since that cold day in May
Another time that I was late
 
Sometimes I’ve been wandering through a dark forest
Sometimes my memories whisper and I can’t ignore it
Sometimes I just wish you were here to make me smile, make me laugh
Oh oh
 
I was the girl you picked out, riding high
Then got my head in the clouds
Maybe you needed something from me
When I finally came down
There’s another girl now
 
Oh, oh
Maybe I took you for granted
Never loved someone who made me such a romantic
Maybe she is there in your arms
Being the one I'da been
If I knew how
 
And all my friends tell me to let you go
But this isn’t just some TV show
What we had was deeper than the surface
Oh, If only I’d treated you like you were worth it
 
I was the girl you picked out, riding high
Then got my head in the clouds
Maybe you, needed something from me
When I finally came down
There’s another girl now
 
​Oh, oh
Maybe I took you for granted 
Never loved someone who made me such a romantic
Maybe she is there in your arms
Being the one I'da been
If I knew how
 
Here I am staring at your Instagram
You look so happy, and all the pics of me are gone
I know maybe you just wanna move on
Is there a part of you who still smiles when you hear our song

Do you remember those drives, we thought it was the life
And all of that time, cruising toward a divide
You've got amnesia, we always replay in my mind
 
I was the girl you picked out, riding high
Then got my head in the clouds
Maybe you needed something from me
When I finally came down
There’s another girl now
 
Maybe I took you for granted 
Never loved someone who made me such a romantic
Maybe she, is there in your arms 
Being the one I'da been
if I knew how





Copyright 2022
Lyrics by Cam Gallant and Kelsey Gallant (2021-2022)
​Melody by Kelsey Gallant and Cam Gallant (2021-2022)
Music by Cam Gallant and Oliver Ocean (2022)
​Produced by Oliver Ocean at Orb Recording Studios


Video by Cam Gallant, contributions by Cody Gallant
The Story Behind The Song:

Sometimes Cam and I like to just play around in our home studios and see what we come up with. One night when he was visiting me for Christmas, Cam started playing something on the piano and I started ad-libbing lyrics to it. The music was slow-paced and reminded me of a rainy forest, so I made it a breakup song with analogies about wandering through a forest. My original ad-libbed lyrics were super cliché, so after we’d decided the approximate structure of the song, we went back and re-wrote the lyrics. We went through a few hilariously bad versions before we finally had something we were happy with!

Up until this point, all of our songs had been produced by Cam and me at home, but we decided it would be a good experience to get this one produced in a professional studio! I flew down to visit Cam in Texas, and we spent two days at Orb Recording Studio recording the song with producer Oliver Ocean. ​I had to go home after that, but Cam and Oliver did a few more sessions together before the song was ready to go. The song turned out very different from how we'd first envisioned it, but I'm happy with the finished product!
Picture
Us at Orb Recording Studios, March 2022

Some original lyrics for you to enjoy:

[Stanza 1]:
Staring out the window at the rain
All I wish I could see is your face
But the sky has been so beige
Since the day you went away

(Stanza 2 and chorus were the same)

[Second verse]:

Staring through the tunnel in my mind
How was I so naïve and dumb and blind
But my life was rainbows and butterflies
Till the day you went awayyyy
 
Sometimes I’ve been wandering through a daze
Left me wondering if things could’ve changed
Now here I am and I lost what meant the most to me
Didn’t treat you right, So happy yet so sad you see…. 


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