The Tarot of Songwriting 04 - The Emperor
The Sea, Ibsen’s Women and The Pleasure of Constraint
I was 17 when I wrote my first album, Alas I Cannot Swim. And like most 17-year-olds, I knew the square root of fuck all. This is not to dismiss the dizzying intensity of being a young person, nor the spectrum of experience it is possible to have at any age. It’s just been on my mind recently - provoked, I suppose, by the intermittent presence of the 1…