Can you spot yourself in the latest single from Two Ways Home? You’re either like the timekeeper of the track’s title or the latecomer scorned by their punctuality. I most definitely identify with the latter. Except I don’t make the kind of excuses that the person on ‘She Keeps Time Like a Casio’ does. Placing atop its guilt-ridden Americana, the account of “a crash back on the A40” when, really, they “just lost track of time”. The song then plays with this false storytelling to become a confession but also a reflection. On self. The other. The relationship between two very different personalities. Isi’s voice lending a beautiful sincerity to the question of how much one should change to accommodate expectations. The line “if I’m not early then I’m tempting fate / if I’m on time then I’m already late” expressing a defeatist dilemma that calls for honest self-expression in the end. Which is why I always tell people openly that my time may not be their time. But hopefully, somewhere, we find a happy medium.
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