The song is about her longtime friendship with Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip, who died of brain cancer in 2017.
Are you gone
Good for you to go
I hardly know what that took
So long
I’ll be walking with you if you happen to look
If you look
Back then
You got me on the door
I was too young to get in
Old friend
We'll get you to it now
The show is out of this world
And it's about to begin
I was hoping that we'd get more
We were holding something we'd lose
Except how it felt to know
How much you were loved
And what I was to you
I always knew
First week of school
You came to take me out
We had some drinks on the town
You said
"If they tell you this is the best time in your life
Don't let it get you down"
I know what you've been around
I was hoping that we'd get more
We were holding something we'd lose
Except how it felt to know
How much you were loved
And what I was to you
What I was
Rolling over waves of song and dance
Ride between the wedges and the amps
Tune after tune
And hot afternoons
Under perfect summer moons
Tune after tune
I was hoping that we'd get more
We were holding something we'd lose
Except how it felt to know
How much you were loved
And what I was to you
What I was
What I was to you
I always knew
What I was to you
Rolling over waves of song and dance
Ride between the wedges and the amps
Tune after tune
What I Was To You was written by Sarah Harmer.
What I Was To You was produced by Marcus Paquin.