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In 2017 Aidan began his UBC career, and with it, a newfound passion for music and the personal autonomy of moving away from home. Join me as I ask Aidan about his first year. We get sentimental about graduating, our parents, and first-year romance. You won’t want to miss this inaugural episode!

This Week’s Playlist

This Week’s Song Lyrics

The War on Drugs – Pain
Go to bed now I can tell
Pain is on the way out now
Look at the way the domino falls away
I know it’s hard looking in
Knowing that tomorrow you’ll be back again
Hang your head and let me in, I’m waiting
So long
I was staring into the light
When I saw you in the distance, I knew that you’d be mine
Am I moving back in time?
Just standing still?
I met a man with a broken back
He had a fear in his eyes that I could understand
I can’t even shake the hand
Without breaking it
I’ve been pulling on a wire, but it just won’t break
I’ve been turning up the dial, but I hear no sound
I resist what I cannot change
And I wanna find what can’t be found
I’m aware of the time we lost
Like a demon in the doorway, waiting to be born
But I’m here all alone, just begging
Pull me close and let me hold you in
Give me the deeper understanding of who I am
Yeah, I’m moving back again, I’m waiting, yeah
I’m just pulling on a wire, but it just won’t break
I’ve been turning up the dial, but I hear no sound
I resist what I cannot change, own it in your own way
Yeah, I wanna find what can’t be found

Mac Demarco – Freaking out the Neighbourhood
Sorry, mama
There are times I get carried away
Please, don’t worry
Next time I’m home, I’ll still be the same
And I know it’s no fun
When your first son
Gets up to no good
Starts freaking out the neighborhood
Really, I’m fine
Never been better, got no job on the line
Sincerely, don’t worry
Same old boy that you hoped you would find
And I know it’s no fun
When your first son
Gets up to no good
Starts freaking out the neighborhood

Her’s – She Needs Him
I thought you left alone last night
Put to bed, my greatest fear
I know I don’t reserve the right
But by simply hoping he’s not here
Please, don’t say that you’ve seen him
She’s probably got her life laid out
Just let me dream a little more
My heart takes up all my strength
No more can I think of them
No more can I hold her in my thoughts
Don’t say that she needs him
That she needs him
That she needs him
He probably lives alone, you know
How am I ever to compare?
Oh why can’t she be alone for good
So I can dream and never dare?
Please, don’t say that you’ve seen him
She’s probably got her life laid out
Just let me dream a little more
My heart takes up all my strength
No more can I think of them
No more can I hold her in my thoughts
Don’t say that she needs him
That she needs him
Nobody knows
I wish she could
Holding me close
As if she would
Nobody knows
I wish she could
Holding me close
Holding me close
My heart takes up all my strength
No more can I think of them
No more can I hold her in my thoughts
Don’t say that she needs him
That he needs her
I want her to know
He don’t have it all
I want her to know
He don’t have it all
I want her to know
He don’t have it all
I want her to know
He don’t have it all
I want her to know
He don’t have it all
I want her to know
He don’t have it all
I want her to know
He don’t have it all
I want her to know
He don’t have it all

Peach Pit – Seventeen
I say, here stand I
I can’t do otherwise
But is it enough?
And why’d you look so tough?
Back at Patrick Park
We stood in the dark
In my beer-stained mind
I said “please won’t you be mine?”
There’s something dark hangin’ over my head
I’m seventeen, don’t hold your breath
There’s something dark hangin’ over my head
I’m seventeen, don’t hold your breath
On the high school lot
You’d kiss me so long
But lessons don’t last
When I’m playing you so fast
There’s something dark hangin’ over my head
I’m seventeen, don’t hold your breath
There’s something dark hangin’ over my head
I’m seventeen, don’t hold your breath
Punch and first collapse
Drunk at winter dance
Looks in red dress
Oh, what an awful mess
There’s something dark hangin’ over my head
I’m seventeen, don’t hold your breath
There’s something dark hangin’ over my head
I’m seventeen, don’t hold your breath

Dan Auerbach – King of One-horse town
Everyday is just a little white lie
Telling myself I’m gettin’ by
I just stay in this room and cry
The snow it covers up the ground
And I can’t hear a single sound
I’d turn off the TV and go for a drive
But I can’t see there’s any signs of life
Except this Christmas tree with blinking lights
I coulda made it but I messed around
I’m a loser with a rusted crown
Scared if I jump in the ocean I might drown
King of a One Horse Town
I’m the King of a One Horse Town
And I barely pull my weight around
I thought about leaving but I don’t know
Wouldn’t even know anywhere to go
Guess I’ll stay on desolation row
Go get stoned and hang around
The beat of my drum is the only sound
I would jump into the ocean but I’m scared I’d drown
King of a One Horse Town
I’m a King of a One Horse Town
I’m a King of a One Horse Town
And I barely pull my weight around
I’m a King of a One Horse Town
King of a One Horse Town
I’m a King of a One Horse Town
And I barely pull my weight around
King of a One Horse Town
I’m a King of a One Horse Town

Empire – Palace Winter
The Animal in me, died tonight
Thought I’d never be, crying like a parasite
Before it gets too late, I’ll deny the pain
Stranger now to me, but tonight you will believe

Tonight I’m gonna leave it
Every little secret
Never to believe it
Walking on a ceiling
Waiting on a feeling
Running from a notion

Breathing in fresh air, see beyond the glare
Killing empathy, when it makes sense to me
Panic comes around, never coming down
Forever calling me, and I’m hiding like a beast

Tonight I’m gonna leave it
Every little secret
Never to believe it
Walking on a ceiling
Waiting on a feeling
Running from a notion

Before it gets too late, you will find escape
Voices calling me, like the lightning through the breeze
Tonight I’m gonna leave it
Every little secret
Never to believe it
Walking on a ceiling
Waiting on a feeling
Running from a notion

Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue

Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’
I was layin’ in bed
Wondrin’ if she’d changed at all
If her hair was still red
Her folks they said our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like
Mama’s homemade dress
Papa’s bank book wasn’t big enough
And I was standin’ on the side of the road
Rain fallin’ on my shoes
Heading out for the east coast
Lord knows I’ve paid some dues
Gettin’ through
Tangled up in blue
She was married when we first met
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a jam I guess
But I used a little too much force
We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out west
Split up on a dark sad night
Both agreeing it was best
She turned around to look at me
As I was walkin’ away
I heard her say over my shoulder
We’ll meet again some day
On the avenue
Tangled up in blue
I had a job in the great north woods
Working as a cook for a spell
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the axe just fell
So I drifted down to New Orleans
Where I was looking for to be employed
Workin’ for a while on a fishin’ boat
Right outside of Delacroix
But all the while I was alone
The past was close behind
I seen a lot of women
But she never escaped my mind
And I just grew
Tangled up in blue
She was workin’ in a topless place
And I stopped in for a beer
I just kept lookin’ at the side of her face
In the spotlight so clear
And later on as the crowd thinned out
I’s just about to do the same
She was standing there in back of my chair
Said to me, Don’t I know your name?
I muttered somethin’ under my breath
She studied the lines on my face
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces
Of my shoe
Tangled up in blue
She lit a burner on the stove
And offered me a pipe
I thought you’d never say hello, she said
You look like the silent type
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century
And everyone of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin’ coal
Pourin’ off of every page
Like it was written in my soul
From me to you
Tangled up in blue
I lived with them on Montague Street
In a basement down the stairs
There was music in the cafés at night
And revolution in the air
Then he started into dealing with slaves
And something inside of him died
She had to sell everything she owned
And froze up inside
And when finally the bottom fell out
I became withdrawn
The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin’ on
Like a bird that flew
Tangled up in blue
So now I’m goin’ back again
I got to get to her somehow
All the people we used to know
They’re an illusion to me now
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenters’ wives
Don’t know how it all got started
I don’t know what they’re doin’ with their lives
But me, I’m still on the road
Headin’ for another joint
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point of view
Tangled up in blue