Happy new year folks! This was the only photo we got from last night's blurry celebrations 🤪 Woke up today thinking of the first song we ever worked on together - "New Year" by Layla (my old solo project). It came out 10 years ago today!! Wowwwww. A whole decade of making music. What a privilege. Swipe to see the music video for it where you can see Anthony dancing in the background. It remains one of my favourite songs we've done together. Lyrics below, they feel different ten years on. Now I read them as - you can't use a new year to escape, to hide from yourself. At some point you have to accept who you really are, embrace it and then enjoy the rewards of living authentically. You don't need to fix yourself in order to be brilliant. You just have to see that you already are brilliant 💜 First day of new year Nothing's changed Still feeling broken Still want the same First day of new year Brush off the past Farewell ambition You never last Hide lovers lost behind us Hide lessons we failed to learn Hide those that tried to mould us And change us for the worse But you can't cover over holes You can't burrow deeper down Yeah you're gonna be somebody What brisk midwinter Solstice gone Promise of rebirth What fractured song Can't flee from bygones No shaking off the truth Just the first understanding Of what we had to lose But you can't cover over holes You can't burrow deeper down Yeah you're gonna be somebody...