Noah Kahan "Stick Season" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified

I put it on Tick Tock and since I'm incredibly insecure I was gonna delete it because I thought like oh no one's watching this like there's no comments or anything and I like waited like 20 minutes and it started to blow up and so I finished the song after I saw the first part of the song I'm doing well on Tick Tock and uh that's how the song was made [Music] there's a lot of beef between New Hampshire and Vermont so I have to say I was from both but I'd call myself vermoner but it's definitely a song about you know the time of year in Vermont stick season when all the leaves are off the trees and it's a a term that was used by some of the older folks in the town I grew up in to describe this like really miserable time of year when it's just kind of gray and cold and there's no snow yet and the kind of the beauty of the foliage is done it's a time of year that's very specific to where I grew up and you know I was concerned that I might alienate people and I was like this is incredibly specific like everyone thinks Vermont's in Canada I'm not sure if anyone's gonna get this but it was cool to see it connect with people and people have their own meanings of what stick season might mean to them or what their hometowns mean to them so it was cool to see it connect outside of New England as he promised me that I was more than all the miles combined you must have had yourself a change of heart back halfway through the drive because your voice chilled off exactly as you passed my exit sign driving in New England is a huge part of living there especially where I'm from it's a lot of distance between places it's a lot of driving to get places and you know one turn can take you to a different life and so I wanted to kind of speak of that idea of having someone you love go farther and farther away from you not only emotionally but physically like on the road kept on driving straight and left our future to the right now I am stuck between my anger and the blame that I can face and memories or something even smoking weed it's not replaced and I am terrified of weather cause I see you when it rains and Doc told me to travel but there's covet on the planes obviously the pandemic was raging when I wrote it a bunch of people in The Tick Tock comments were like actually the plane is the safest place for you to be I'm not sure about the exact science behind it so please do not come to me for advice and whatever not you should travel but I just thought the idea of feeling like even stuck behind even isolated by the current events in the world the feeling like there's really no escape from your situation plays into this idea of feeling trapped in Where You Are and uh the Fairmont but it's the season of the sticks and I suck your mom she forgot that I exist to internet half my fault but I just like to play the victim I'll drink alcohol till my friends come home for Christmas you know dream each night of some version of you that I might not have but I did not lose now your entire attraction one pair of shoes and I'm split in half but that'll have to do I always like to throw a good mom exchange into my songs if I can uh and this one I felt like was like particularly sad just the idea that like there's a person that was like you know tangential to your life for so long that like completely forgot about you and in a small town especially the town I grew up in like you go to the grocery store and you will see like every single person from your past getting avocados and like it just is that feeling of like I know I'm gonna see these people that represent like a lot of pain for me and this person's completely forgotten about me it's almost like you're kind of Trapped in your breakup or trapped in your relationship and that you can't escape these people that have a part in your life but they might not even remember you and try to kind of lay on the depression a little thick there that line so I thought if I piled something good and all my bad that I could cancel out the darkness I inherited from Dad no I am no longer funny cause I miss the way you laugh he once called me forever now you still can't call me back so the line about my dad is uh really a reference to uh my family's disposition for depression and how I feel like it was it's kind of passed down to me you know we are our parents in a lot of ways and we are everything that happened to our parents and this feeling of trying to push all this achievement and success on top of a problem that needs to be solved in a different way and in hopes that maybe it'll go away if you just you know power through in my life so many times I felt like man if I can just achieve this or play this show or get this you know Accolade then I won't be sad anymore and the more you do that the more you realize that you know that status is there and you have to deal with it oh that'll have to do my other half was you I hope this Pain's just passing through but I doubt it and in a relationship when you're in that kind of heartbreak that really bottomless pit of despair that you feel right after you lose somebody it does feel like it's never going to end but you know like the weather in Vermont it'll become winter it'll become spring and then summer again and um in the aftermath relationship it's the same it's the same thing you know you'll you'll move forward you'll find somebody new or you'll find something in yourself that makes you happy and eventually you'll you'll find that piece again and I wanted to you know connect those two themes together I think the idea of driving and the song and a lot of the songs on the album uh kind of speak to the idea of distance speak to the idea of being forgotten someone being able to just make a decision to not turn and having that person literally drive away from your life it's also just an easy metaphor it's a little bit lazy songwriting frankly but it ended up working so

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Length: 5min 20sec (320 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 04 2023