Story Behind The Song

I wrote "Someday" because I was a senior in high school and I was really sick of being told what to do and who to be and how long it would take to get there. It's a teenaged love song. Like, "Hey, I know I have like $2,000 and a shit-ton of debt, but if it's alright with you I'd kind of like to make this thing we've got going on last forever." And the mantra in those situations, that EVERYBODY always calls naive or stupid or cliché, is someday. Someday there will be a time and a place that this will work. And we're gonna stick together and fight for it. And that song is all about my someday. My stupid teenage dream (Katy Perry just made a quarter) that I was and am dying to make work.

Song Description

The 19-year-old McConeghy immediately sets the tone of the album as young and fresh, though his songwriting is matured beyond his years. The lead track, "Someday", is a pop rock mantra for a time and place where dream meets reality. Two verses that anticipate what the future may bring cleverly lead into a chorus where Daniel exclaims, "Let's run, run away / They don't understand, give me your hand / Let's leave today / Forget the world, we'll be a boy and a girl in love."

Lyrics

I was 16 when I saw your face
Knew that I would find my way
To your side, your side someday
Baby say you'll stay with me

You were 15 when I caught your eye
That early evening in July
You watched me fight to hold your hand
You always knew I'd be your man

Let's run, run away
They don't understand, give me your hand
Let's leave today
Forget the world, we'll be a boy and a girl in love
They don't get it, we'll leave them behind
I'm alright today just knowing you're mine
Cause you say we'll find our way
Someday

Now I'm 18, future on my mind
So much to do, so little time
You say you'll love me all my life
Baby you're my only light

Let's run, run away
They don't understand, give me your hand
Let's leave today
Forget the world, we'll be a boy and a girl in love
They don't get it, we'll leave them behind
I'm alright today just knowing you're mine
Cause you say we'll find our way
Someday

I'm running and running, forgetting how to breathe
I'm falling and falling, losing who I want to be
You catch me and hold me and I don't want to leave
And when everything is wrong I hear you say to me

Let's run, run away
They don't understand, give me your hand
Let's leave today
Forget the world, we'll be a boy and a girl in love
They don't get it, we'll leave them behind
I'm alright today just knowing you're mine
Cause you say we'll find our way
Someday