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All I Need

by Isaac Watters

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I started writing "All I Need" while staying at a cabin in the desert outside of Joshua Tree, taking time to just sit in the silence and think and write. The cabin was on top of a hill, from which you could see a vast and dusty landscape, I began to imagine being in outer space, floating away from the surface of our planet, and towards the farthest reaches of the universe. It felt like a metaphor for the internal loneliness we all share, the farther we go inside ourselves mirrored only by the great expanse outside of us. As I thought, i remembered reading about Michael Collins, the astronaut who went around the dark side of the moon during the moon landing while Neil and Buzz were down on the surface. The following is from a New York Times article about Michael Collins -

"For half a century, Michael Collins has been answering variations of the same question asked by reporters, he says. 'Mr. Collins, weren’t you the loneliest man in the whole lonely history of this lonely planet by your lonely self behind the lonely moon in this lonely orbit? Weren’t you terribly lonely?' he mused. Mr. Collins is often the forgotten astronaut on Apollo 11, the one who remained in orbit, 60 miles above the moon in the Apollo command module, waiting for his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, to return from the lunar surface. He did not mind his solitary time aboard the spacecraft, which was named Columbia.

'I had this beautiful little domain,' Mr. Collins said. 'It was all mine. I was the emperor, the captain of it, and it was quite commodious. I had warm coffee, even.'"

lyrics

This is all I need
A cup of coffee on a mountain top
A cabin tucked into a cleft of rock
An empty notebook and stone flowing ink
This is all I need

A cup of coffee on a mountain top
A cabin tucked into a cleft of rock
An empty notebook and stone flowing ink
A vast horizon and time to think
This is all I need

I sent you in to town
It's quiet and i'm settling down
Feel my feet leaving the ground
Losin’ touch just looking round

I see myself in an old spaceship
Further out than Mr. Collins went
Into that separate loneliness
That hides in every one of us

This is all I need
A cup of coffee on a mountain top
A cabin tucked into a cleft of rock
An empty notebook and stone flowing ink
This is all I need

A cup of coffee on a mountain top
A cabin tucked into a cleft of rock
An empty notebook and stone flowing ink
A vast horizon and time to think
This is all I need

I am still here up on the mountain
Been tryin for years to come down
See the dust kick up in the distance
I hope that it's you coming round

I am still here up on the mountain
Been trying for years to come down
See the dust kick up in the distance
I know that it's you coming round

Yeah I know that it's you, you’re all I need

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released April 19, 2023
Written by John Isaac Watters & Matthew James Linesch

Produced by Matt Linesch
Engineered and Mixed by Matt Linesch
Recorded at Infinitespin Studio, Sherman Oaks, California
Assistant Engineers: Peter Brownlee & Eric Van Thyne
Mastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering, Burbank, California
Art Direction and Package Design: Stone Shannon

Drums: Josh Adams
Bass: Gabe Noel
Piano/Synths: Mitchell Yoshida
Guitar: Mark Noseworthy
Background Vocals: Sydney Wayser

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Isaac Watters Los Angeles, California

Isaac Watters has been busy dreaming up new ideas. He’s forever been a creator, using his mind to bring his ideas to life, whether via the visual or musical mediums. But in recent times, the soft-spoken innovator’s output has blossomed in a new and exciting way. “This is finally the record I was always meant to make,” Watters says of his forthcoming debut release. ... more

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