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Jaden

Photograph

Release date: 28th August 2020

From CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3
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About This Track

A photograph becomes the trigger for regret and longing in 'Photograph', a track built on the tension between memory and present pain. Jaden traces the moment his ex discovers an image of them together, and the emotional unravelling that follows. The song moves between accusation and vulnerability, anger at their incompatibility giving way to something more desperate: the admission that without her, he is adrift, drowning in an ocean of his own making. The production holds a restraint that lets the emotional weight sit. Jaden's vocal delivery shifts from controlled verse to the pleading intensity of the chorus, where the image of being pulled under water becomes literal. The song captures a particular kind of heartbreak, one where the person who destroys you is also the only one who can save you, and that contradiction offers no way out.

"Photograph" is a track by Jaden, from the album CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3, released 28th August 2020. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Jaden

Jaden

Lyrics

Photograph

[Verse 1]

She found a photograph

Now my face just makes her mad

Don't think about all our fights (Don't care 'bout all our fights)

Our memories, we had it in our bones

Baby girl, we're out of control

Wasting our energy

Woke up in Tennessee

Only you can piss me off

I’m staring at that hole inside my wall

But all we had was us

[Chorus]

'Cause you

You just found that special part of me

That's sinking me by pulling me down

It's you

I'm in the middle of the ocean and I need you right now

If I can't love you, I guess I'll just drown

[Verse 2]

She found our photograph

These tears, can't hold 'em back

And when I sleep at night

The dreams I have, I fantasize of you

Tell me what to do

Thought I might write a song

Hoped you might sing along

Oh girl, my head is gone

On Paris nights, your mother called, I know

Tell me where to go

[Chorus]

'Cause you

You just found that special part of me

That's sinking me by pulling me down

It's you

I'm in the middle of the ocean and I need you right now

If I can't love you, I guess I'll just drown

[Outro]

Ahah

[?]

Ahah, ahah, ahah ahah

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Track details

From CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3

2020
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Album
CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3
CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3
Jaden
Release year
2020
  1. —Drops of Sun
  2. —Sunburnt
  3. —Muted Sunrise
  4. —Photograph
  5. —Boys and Girls
  6. —In the Hills
  7. —Endless Summer
  8. —Deep End
  9. —The Birth of SYRE
  10. —Falling for You
  11. —Everything
  12. —Bad Connection
  13. —LUCY!
  14. —Young in Love
  15. —Circa 2015
  16. —Rainbow Bap
    4:40
  17. —LUCY!
    2:08
  18. —Photograph
    2:21

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Brian Lee, Jaden, James Chul Rim
Producer
Brian Lee, James Chul Rim
Engineer
James Chul Rim
Drums
Aram Deradoorian
Guitar
Brian Lee
Vocals
Jaden
Additional Vocals
Odessa Adlon
Assistant Recording Engineer
Aquilo, Fernando “Nano” Miramontes, John Armstrong, Rich Evatt, Romel Shearer, SAM MORTON
Mastering Engineer
Emerson Mancini
Mixing Engineer
James Chul Rim
Recording Engineer
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Strings Arranger
OmArr
Violin
Brian Lee, PJ Cartwright
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