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“When you try your best but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse”
– Coldplay

I haven’t really followed Coldplay over the last years. But listening to tracks of their first and second album still brings up the melancholic side of my heart at any time. It simply reminds me of my younger self when life has been more dramatic and there were so many questions about life – and the desperate feeling of never being able to find all the answers.
So today it is way easier for me to laugh about the melancholic feelings and I already know it’s not the purpose of life to find all these answers. Accepting life as life with all its ups and downs and first of all accepting yourself with all your ups and downs – well…from time to time you are just a little kid, sitting in class to learn this. Smile while you are watching yourself. It helps a lot :)

So here’s a really lovely cover version of the song ‘Fix You’ (I know, its from the third coldplay album) by the singer songwriter Jesse Daniel Smith aka I am the sky. And it seems like I am not the only one whose heart is getting touched by these true lyrics. I love it.

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Because nothing lasts forever
some things aren’t meant to be
but you’ll never find the answers
until you set your old heart free

Some days ago I had one of this ‘bottle of wine’ evenings with one of my heart people. We were talking about making the right or wrong decisions, about love, hurt, disappointments, expectations…About past, present, future…how to keep relationships alive, how to love someone else when you sometimes forget to love yourself. At one point my friend just said: Well, whatever it is, no matter in which direction it will lead you – we should always just DO something. Go for it. Try everything you think you need to try in this moment. Just jump in. It is the only way to give you the feeling of being alive. Even if you fall, fail or get hurt…any emotion is better than to feel nothing and life is just passing by like you’re sitting on a train station watching the trains passing by.
Sounds quite easy and actually very simple but anyone knows how hard this can be…and sharing a bottle of wine with a person you really like helps a lot. That’s my advice :)

This song always reminds me of all this. Hello my old heart, how have you been?

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Let’s be honest… I found Jacko Hooper and his stunning track ‘Egg Shells’ already this summer. While wandering through Barcelona his music was all around (well, all over my phone, but yeah… all around me :)) I had every frozen Chai with it, it accompanied me while I was working through my bucket list with all culture-touristic-trips you can do there (still some left, so I have to come back… too bad ;)) and even the cigarette in front of the sea side tasted better with this kind of quality music.

So why didn’t I share it with you guys? Well, that’s when we started having a more defined vision of what we are about to do now. A vision that is coming true now. So we got caught up in those mind games and while planning we were so sure we had already posted Jacko’s ‘Egg Shells’  since it was such a household song to us. Because it’s too good not to. We know ;)

So yesterday I stumbled across a mail by Jacko. And at this point I started laughing…I seriously never got around to one of our favourite songs of this summer.

Hahahaha…stupid. Isn’t exactly this the beauty of life? Sharing the small things with people you care about or simply the world? Yes it is. So, sorry Jacko for supporting you only now. And sorry universe for hiding this EP for such a long time…Enjoy! It will give you the perfect mood for cozy nights at home. With your loved ones.

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And to give back some currency here is the video of Jacko Hoopers Ireland Tour he just did: