Neil Finn

Neil Finn Official Website

Through The Valley
Sean Donnelly/Neil Finn

As a teenager I had some involvement with churches and stuff, and it wasn’t really for me, and the song is about that disconnect of being a young person and the tremendous, almost joyful, unhappiness that comes from being that age. You relish it, you wallow in it.

It’s another invented character really, but I remember being that drunken teenager lying on the back seat, and I remember that feeling in church, and I whammed the two of them together really, imagining being in that situation and how alien it would all feel.
— Sean James Donnelly, NZ Herald, 2015

Song appears on:

SJD - St John Divine (2015)

Copyright © 2024 Neil Finn.