Dean Lewis

Dean Lewis Instagram – I had just moved to London with my manager. I remember being really stressed because I had no money and not a lot to look forward to. I’d always been lucky in my life with opportunity’s arising, but after a certain point when I hit 25 years old they stopped coming in. Reality set in and I wondered if I’d messed up my life. Each year that passed felt more like a repeat of the last one, monotonous and boring. I felt like the excitement of my old life was leaving… The excitement of not knowing the answers was replaced with knowing what was going to happen. I started losing that light in my soul. I caught a train up to this small town called Hitchin 1 hour north of London as I’d been writing songs and had a studio session that day. I went into the studio and my life completely changed. The song that came out was in a bizarre structure unlike anything I’d done before, I didn’t really understand chords or song structure that well back then and I’m glad I didn’t because what came out was very unique. “I watched my wild youth disappear infront of my eyes” I remember being so unsure of myself back when I wrote this. I knew deep down it hit some universal truth. I remember it was freezing as I jumped back on the train, I sat down and put my headphones in and listened back to my rough recording of the song. I messaged it to my brother and manager saying “I think I have something special here”. Waves was the first song that I released. I knew it had to be. To hear how many people have interpreted the meaning in their own way taught me so much and meant so much. Here it is, the song that gave me a life after i felt like i’d lost it💛 | Posted on 27/Feb/2024 00:53:26