Everywhere, Everything

Album: Stick Season (2022)
Charted: 72 79
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Songfacts®:

  • "Everywhere, Everything" is about accepting endings, not as a source of sadness or despair but as a natural part of life's cycle. While acknowledging impermanence, the song radiates a sense of optimism and gratitude. Even as their bodies decompose and return to dust, Noah Kahan's love for his sweetheart will endure, his hand forever entwined with hers.
  • "Everywhere, Everything" is the seventh track from Kahan's third studio album, Stick Season. He began writing the record in his hometown of Strafford, Vermont, in 2020 during the COVID-19 quarantine. This fits into the apocalyptic feel of the song.

    Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
    It's been a long year
    Would we survive in a horror movie


    Kohan feels overwhelmed and exhausted by the events of 2020. He questions his own ability to cope with the challenges they are facing.

    We didn't know that the sun was collapsing
    'Til the seas rose and the buildings came crashing


    The lyric alludes to how many of us were oblivious to the spread of the pandemic, realizing its impact only when it was too late.
  • Kanan co-produced "Everywhere, Everything" with Gabe Simon, a producer, songwriter, and musician from Nashville who has worked with artists like Lana Del Rey, James Bay and Jessie Murph. He collaborated with Noah Kahan on Stick Season, helping create a more mature and diverse sound.
  • Gabe Simon played all the instruments on "Everywhere, Everything" (piano, percussion, drums, electric guitar, baritone guitar, bass, banjo).
  • Noah Kahan teamed up with singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams to release a new version of "Everywhere, Everything" on December 1, 2023. For this new collaborative rendition, Kahan takes the first verse while Abrams sings the second. It is the fourth Stick Season track re-recorded as a duet, following "She Calls Me Back" with Kacey Musgraves, "Call Your Mom" with Lizzy McAlpine, and "Northern Attitude" with Hozier.

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