“Old Soul” was written for J. Robbins’s son Callum, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 14 due to complications regarding spinal muscular atrophy, a disease causing progressive muscle wasting. According to an interview with Norman Brannon on Substack, the music for “Old Soul” was written in 2012 w...
This was your song
Long before you were gone
The words still fight not to come my way
The emptiest space
The memory of your face
An afterimage, out of phase
Old soul
The future's never ours to know
I walk in circles now
I’m singing to a ghost
With eyes closed
Old soul
It’s suddenly a colder world
From which I retrace
Connections made and games played
Wide eyed, I never was that wise
And home’s not a place
It’s a knowing look, a fourth wall break
Gift of a new world through your eyes
Old soul
Once open doors, forever closed
Precious cargo in a
Box of brittle bones
A cruel blow
Old soul
Severed from the fold
The future's never ours to know
I walk in circles, now
I’m singing to your ghost
Eyes closed
Old soul
It's suddenly a colder world
Old Soul was written by J. Robbins.
Old Soul was produced by J. Robbins.
J. Robbins released Old Soul on Fri Feb 02 2024.