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STORY BEHIND THE SONG 1:__Don't Forget to Love

Don't forget to love

It's a more or less the same vibe as 'Lonely Heart'

but i wrote DFTL back in 2011 and LH in 2024

it's maybe one of the soundtrack songs of my adolescence


The story... goes like this


a girl gave me this card (see picture) in school

a card with a notepad with the words 'don't forget to love'

and i thought it was cute and my brain immediately went:

wow this would be a good slogan for a song or to put on a t-shirt or whatever


So i later wrote a song around the words "don't forget to love''

the first version of the lyrics were a love song, but then i changed it to be a sad love song

as that was leaning more to what i was feeling at the time...


the moment felt like a movie scene and i really

succeeded in capturing the vibe in the song...


The song was so powerful that I never stopped playing it

after writing it, and is till this day it remains one of the most popular ones


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