Till I Get Back In The Game

The song is about the loss of identity that comes with severe illness and asking your loved ones to hold a space for you and remind you of your best self until you are well enough to remember it again for yourself.

List to Naomi’s song here.

Till I Get Back In The Game

Music and Lyrics by Naomi Flanagan

All the words we’ve had between us 

They float up in the air

And hover above my head so I can still reach them there

So when I need a piece of you, I only have to look

They’re sittin' there waiting for me like my favourite book

But I’m quiet now I’m so quiet now

And I might not speak for all this week while the lines are down

So I’m hoping that you won’t let me lose my name

So won’t you hold onto it for me

Till I get back in the game

There’s a wattle birds that’s singing

And there’s a parcel at my door

And it’s a kind relief in this cruel retreat that I’ll navigate once more

'Cos there's the part we do together and the path we walk alone

Where we keep in sight all of the strength and light that we have ever known

But I’m silent now I’m so silent now

And it was not my choice to lose my voice I didn’t take a vow

So I’ll only feel real if you remember my name

So won’t you hold it a little longer

Till I get back in the game

Sunlight dances on my wall

This stillness will not break what came before

So I can wait longer

I hope that I’m still laughing down the phone with you in twenty years

And we still bide our time with thoughts in kind and music in our ears

'Cos there’s a gentler kind of motion that sits lightly on the breeze

And holds a quiet resolution of finding steady feet

But I’m wordless now, I’m wordless now

But I still feel that song we used to sing along to with the piano loud

And when the chorus arrives you'll remember my name

So won’t you sing it one more time

Till I get back in the game

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