I wrote Set Your Spirit Free during the first Covid lockdown. Everyone’s lives across the whole world were turned upside down.
To help my own mental health I would go for nightly long walks. My thoughts about what I had seen on tv or online that day would go around in my mind and as I was walking the words to the song just came to me. I think it was my emotional response to what I was seeing going on around me and what people all over the world were going through.
As restrictions are being eased people are feeling excited at being able to hug family members and friends. Being able to do all the things we have missed. Small things, big things.
The lockdown had caused such a huge amount of emotional and psychological damage to people of all ages. Seeing the joy on peoples’ faces as we reclaim our everyday human habits is amazing.
The verses of the song deal with the feelings during lockdown and the middle eight about the inner conflict we feel about the lockdown rules.
However, the choruses are very uplifting and filled with hope and excitement at the thought of us all reclaiming the joys of our lives. About being able to finally interact with people and share our lives in every way.