This is so sweet and sad. Shyness can be devastating, and you encapsulate that devastation here perfectly. I love how dynamic your vocals are, it adds so much to the feeling of the song. Beautiful work! FAWM changed my life in a similar way, it really is a special community.

you express many aspects of shyness here..from the relation of a spectator in the crowd to the celebrity on the stage to the reticent lover afraid to approach the object of affection. i think the problem is when the other one doesnt know who you are so you lack the confidence to approach in obscurity. my own experience is that i am very confident when the other person knows and accepts my purpose, as when i am interviewing a celebrity for a major publication i am bold, but if i am in the presence of a celebrity socially and have not been introduced i am very shy. some examples of this are when i was at a wedding reception next to peter gabriel i didnt speak to him, when i was an extra in a film with karen black and she sat across from me at lunch, i was so nervous i had to get up and leave. but i think the major issue in this song is being too shy and in love. that is the worst, because the regret at not having declared ones feelings can haunt you throughout a lifetime.

This is absolutely gorgeous. You have such dynamics and feeling in your voice. And I love how you get quiet in the refrain, just when things are going major. Fits the theme perfectly.

As I am fond of saying to friends who hit it out of the park: this is as good as anything. Excellent write. 11/10 #titfortat

Lee - I’m glad you slipped this one in under the wire. I like the view into this quiet obsession. I like the line robot reading news which I read on the page as reading robot news. It makes me think about the ways I use the phone scroll maybe a little like whiskey or at least cigarettes as something to take the edge off the world. Hard to imagine FAWM without you now that you are here.

Lots of emotion expressed and recieved here, and some lovely melodic lilts.