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“Anywhere” is a song that delicately and metaphorically recounts the inner journey of those coping with memory loss. The song takes inspiration from Alzheimer's, without ever naming it, and explores it as a slow fading of the world as we know it.
From the first sentence - “imagine if the world ends before dawn, our last memory would be the color of the sun” - the lyrics tell how important it is that even when memories fade, the traces we've left in the lives of others will continue to speak for us. It is an invitation to live now, without fear, with the certainty that we have already sown beauty.
Written initially on voice and guitar, the arrangement went through many stages: it was
taken apart, rewritten, reconstructed from scratch several times. But when the right idea came, everything fitted together without hesitation. The arrangement is enhanced by real instruments: the violins and horns were recorded in the studio, and the horns themselves were played by the author herself, who is also the interpreter of the song. A choice that adds an even more personal and authentic touch to this musical journey.
Despite the deep meaning, the song is written in a major key and is
surprisingly bright, just like the person to whom it is dedicated: a happy presence, full of color and life.
The colorful fabrics used in the videos and images are not simply scenic objects: they are remnants, scraps of fabric, chosen because they belong to a past of creating hands. She was a seamstress, and those pieces of fabric tell, one by one, the fragments of a memory that endures in gesture, in color, in touch.
“Anywhere” is, at heart, a song about what remains. And about how, even when everything seems to fade away, something beautiful always finds a way to remain.
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