Everything Goes Away

'Everything Goes Away' is kind of a dark story based entirely on a period of my life which I spent in a small town were I attended High school. From the age of 16 to 20 I saw my friend fall victim to a meth addiction, I lost my grandparents (who I was extremely close with) both within 24 hours of each other and dealt with a ugly break up that involved me quitting uni. After moving back home from Sydney I abused drinking, ignored my family and friends, and made myself extremely ill. After all of this, I moved to Newcastle in search of change and a clean slate. I didn't really know anyone, so that was also a difficult and lonely time for me. I lived in an empty room and slept on a mattress on the floor for the first year. I finally met a band and we began writing. I was also working and paying ridiculously high rent. Band practice was an hour long trip one way, and in the freezing cold, then another very long hour home at 12 am on trains and buses. I was struggling to keep contact with my friends, to which some contact had been lost for good. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that nothing lasts forever, and that people deal with the very same problem I was having, just in different ways. And that's O.K.