About Shine in Your Eyes

“Shine in Your Eyes” is a really folky song I wrote during my time in Ireland in 2016. My boyfriend and I had to endure our first three months in a long-distance relationship and I got really inspired by the wonderful folk bands in Ireland. Those two things resulted in this song. A little tune about missing the person you love - about love and being there for each other. I really enjoy listening back to this snapshot from this experience with my first love, the nativity and slight rebellion of the conventional feels so light and wonderful. A little tongue and cheek with “I’ll be there to guide you, but probably we’d just get more lost”. No high expectations or promises, just the joy of sharing life with each other. This song is me learning how to love, with an enthusiastic heart and an overthinking head.

Musically this is one of my favourites to play with the nice “he hey” sing-along part and it’s folky groove. Production wise it’s special too, it’s the first song where we completely outsourced the production from our usual team (except for the vocals and final mix/master). It was completely arranged and recorded by SunDown studios in the States. This arose as an opportunity through a course about Sync we were doing at the time. I really like the more American vibe it got, and most importantly: there’s banjo on it! I love banjo and really wanted to have one on one of my songs for quite some time haha.

“Shine in Your Eyes” is one of my earliest love songs that grew with me and I’ll always treasure it as a memory captured of a naive 15 year old heart trying to figure itself out.