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A live version of “When” was originally included as the last track on dodie’s debut EP "Intertwined". Over 4 years later, they remastered the song for their debut album. The song is also the sixth and final in a series of songs connected by a 13-piece string section.
"I wrote this when I was 19. It’s quite abstract because I didn’t really know what I was saying. I hadn’t gone through therapy and I wasn’t really sure of myself. And in a way, it kind of makes it more poetic and free. It amounts to this feeling of not being satisfied in your life and waiting for some things to be different. When I was writing the song, I was just starting to feel quite spacey and out of it, and that was the beginning of a mental health condition I now know the name of. But at the time, I thought this feeling was just here to stay. I kept imagining myself on my deathbed being like, ‘Oh God, it all happened, and I didn’t even feel any of that.’"
—via Apple Music
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