Christof Van Der Van performs ‘You Are Still Here’ at Queen’s Wood in London.

‘You Are Still Here’ quietly reflects on the feeling of holding places and people in a suspended state; a nostalgia you can’t let go of, but can’t quite return to, either. The imagery – houses on quays, pale books in windowsills, smoking by the bay – feel like delicate snapshots Christof returns to when city life weighs too heavy.

A song of quiet honesty, no grand declarations, no overplayed sorrow, just a gentle understanding that sometimes life places you at arm’s length from the things you love most.

Credits:
Videographer: Luke Byrne
Colourist: Oliver Kelly

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Lyrics:

your house on the quay
is a still in my mind
pale books in window sills
stacked in heights
i miss all your silly remarks
and you are still here
just a little too far
away
i’m constantly looking for
reasons to leave
london’s backbreaking
but some things I’d keep
so much of it i would give up
but i am are still here
just a little too far
away
those jolly good times
smoking spliffs in the bay
fishing for mackerel
why’d i never stay?
it seems like a like lifetime ago
and we are still here
it goes to show…

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