ORIMERA
01
Before the line
Before We Had Sides
They knew each other’s windows and the way to each other’s door. The first song remembers that closeness, before the words that taught them to separate.
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The Other Side of Us
They knew each other’s homes, families and the way back. Then they learned to lower their voices when the other walked past.
The Other Side of Us follows that separation through eight songs. A shared childhood gives way to labels and fear. A photograph, an empty chair and two lit windows bring back the lives the opposing sides had left out.
The same street, before there were sides.
The street they shared
The distance does not arrive all at once. It settles into words, visits that stop, and a greeting neither dares to finish. People who once knew each other begin to look through the lens of what others say about them.
The album follows that change towards an encounter. History, harm and disagreement still carry weight, but the person standing opposite no longer fits the image they had learned to fear.
Read the prologueThe eight songs
The journey keeps its order: from the closeness of Before We Had Sides to the recognition of The Other Side of Us. Each chapter brings together the original lyrics, a Spanish translation and a reading of its scenes.
02
Learned distance
They Gave Us Names
The first warnings arrive at the family table. Repeated often enough, they replace a person’s own name with the name of their side.
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03
Learned distance
Across the Street
Thirty steps separate their doors. The bedroom light still comes on, but the way towards it has become difficult to imagine.
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04
The cost of separation
The Boy in the Photograph
A photograph lies face down. Someone turns it over and finds a seventeen-year-old boy, awkward in front of the camera. He already knew his ending; he knew almost nothing of his life.
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05
The cost of separation
No One Wins Here
The kettle clicks off at eight. There are two cups beside the sink and a chair set out. The house still keeps a place for someone absent.
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06
The cost of separation
Your Mother Waits Too
She keeps the phone beside her plate and says she is fine. Then listens for the gate. The narrator knows that gesture; he recognises it in another window too.
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07
Seeing each other again
When I Saw Your Face
He thought he would recognise danger in their clothes or the way they stood. When the person turns, he sees tired eyes and hands shaking like his own.
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08
Seeing each other again
The Other Side of Us
Too many years have passed to return unchanged to the beginning. Even so, they can remain face to face and listen to what the other has to say.
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After the final song, the first words carry a different weight. The complete album is available on YouTube.
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