So We Meet Again My Heartache

Album: The Absence (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • Gardot wrote this song of melancholy and resignation in her home city of Philadelphia. "If I'm there for 24 hours I write immediately," she told Mojo magazine. "It's something about the smell of the leaves, the sound of the city, the feeling of the sky. The environment makes me go within myself."

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