Be Around from You by Max Comeau
Talk about “not intended for release”! I wrote this song following the most mundane phone conversation with my mom, whom I adore. We spoke about this and that, winter was slowly closing in and the December blues were starting. Once we said goodbye and I hung up the phone, a few steps away from the Square Victoria Metro station in downtown Montreal, this feeling came over me: what will become of me and my siblings (not to mention my nieces and nephew) when the inexorable end comes? “They won’t always be around”, I thought. The second I got home, I sat down with my guitar, plucked away at my strings and simply put into words all that was going through my mind. It’s a very private song but one which I chose to share as I’d always wanted to explore mortality in my writing but had never managed to fully express how I felt. Hopefully, this gets the job done. It is a simple, unassuming song… a moment where I completely let my guard down. No “smoke and mirrors” here – just me and my guitar in the kitchen of the Boom Room, after the band’s gone home.
