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The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants

from Somewhere South of Sane by Salim Nourallah

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Yes, The Hearts Wants What the Heart Wants but sometimes the heart is just plain dumb. I'd met a girl in Austin that I really liked and this song was for her. It was a crazy time because I was going through my divorce and everything was brand new. I felt like I was 24 again. I had all of this free time. I'd almost forgotten what that felt like. Two weeks before I wrote this song, I'd been sequestered outside of Austin for two weeks in a songwriting camp. I was there with several other writers trying to come up with songs to hopefully give to a publishing company to pair with big time artists. I was involved in writing, on average, 3 songs a day. It was nuts. I'd never had anyone ask me to do something like this before. "Salim, we'll put you up in a really nice place, feed you, give you fancy booze – the works! And all you have to do in return is wake up every day and write your little heart out." I was humbled. I loved it. I felt a rush of creativity like I'd never felt before. Maybe it was all the pent up aggression involved in my life falling apart? Who knows? I was on fire. I wrote with abandon and ease. It felt like a dream that was way too crazy to ever actually have somehow came true. Even crazier, none of those songs ever ended up anywhere but on my own records. And only three, at that: Prisoner, on my last solo record, Skeleton Closet; Gimme A Go on the NHD record; Relief on SSOS. Anyway, circling back to the girl. She ended up giving me my first real taste of the dating phenomenon known as "ghosting." The night I wrote The Heart Wants I was in the middle of the long-distance letdown. Don't worry, it turned out to be as lucky as winning the lottery. I also got a couple of songs out of it, including this one!

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from Somewhere South of Sane, released September 28, 2018

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Salim Nourallah Dallas, Texas

Salim Nourallah is a recording artist, producer, Happiness Records founder, and Texas indie music fixture. His 2018 release, Somewhere South of Sane, is a 21-song double LP. Popmatters recently wrote, "Nourallah manages both to surprise and to continue doing exactly what he's always done: turn a reflective life and a focus on family into unforgettable art." ... more

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