All My Sh-t Is In My Car

Album: A Grey Area (2023)
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Songfacts®:

  • This '80s-influenced tune finds JP Saxe assessing the wreckage of his broken relationship. As he packs up his things from the house he shares with his girlfriend - the one that feels like "Someone Else's Home" - he wishes he could change the way he feels so he doesn't have to leave.

    "That song's about how all my sh-t was in my car," Saxe told Apple Music. "And I think, more broadly, it's about navigating when what you want and what you want to want are no longer the same thing. And figuring out what the f--k to do about it."
  • In a 2023 Songfacts interview, Saxe explained how the song ended up with a variety of musical styles: "That song had a lot of forms to it, because originally it was kind of just the '80s rock vibe, but that was boring to me. That song got a little genre-ADD. It feels like every section of that song comes from a different section of our musical tastes. It was also an opportunity to yell. I have a lot of songs where I whisper about my feelings, and that song I get to yell, which felt like a nice change of pace."
  • In the lyrics, Saxe is caught up in a spiral of overthinking as he peruses sentimental items that remind him of happier times in his relationship and old journal entries that reveal the underlying doubts that were always there.

    "It's very easy to be analytical about the feelings you don't want. Because you're trying to not have them," the singer-songwriter told The Line Of Best Fit in 2023. "We're not as analytical about the feelings we do want. We just want to f--king feel them. But the exploration of that analysis is what becomes the art, because you have so many details because you've been obsessing about. If you're just caught up in joy, you're not obsessing about why. You're just in it."
  • Saxe wrote the songs from his sophomore album, A Grey Area, in the year-and-a-half following his 2021 breakup with Julia Michaels, his duet partner on the hit "If the World Was Ending."

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