Inside Out - Mike Montrey Band - NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2025

For this year's NPR Tiny Desk Contest, we are submitting Inside Out, which appeared on 2024's Love, Time & Mortality record. The track is filmed in a dim, winter sunset, and attaches itself both lyrically, and musically to the ever evolving complex constructs of relationships, and the changes that people experience over time within them.
Inside Out
If I leave, would you worry
Would you worry about me?
If I stay, would you be here
Would you be here for me?
I'm caught in between
All the fire and the gasoline
I can't run away
But I can't seem to hold on and stay
Upside down, inside out
Back and forth
You know my life is changing course
All this time left behind
In my mind I keep on trying to rewind
If I cry, would you hold me
Would you hold on to me?
And if I scream, would you listen
Would you listen to me?
I'm caught in between
All the shadows and the sunlight's beams
I can't find the door
So I'm just lying here across the floor
Upside down, inside out
Back and forth
You know my life is changing course
All this time left behind
In my mind I keep on trying to rewind
Upside down, inside out
Back and forth
You know my life is changing course All this time left behind
In my mind I keep on trying to rewind
If I leave, would you worry
Would you worry about me?
Music/Lyrics/Guitar/Vocals - Mike Montrey
Vocals - Jen Augustine
Violin - Nicole Scorsone
Videographer - David Ziegler (Photobomb Productions)
All Rights Reserved 2024 (Water Productions, LLC/Mike Montrey Music)
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