When Conversations Don't Come Naturally

Let’s be honest—talking is weird sometimes.

You want to say something meaningful, something clever, you might even want to dazzle….But your brain packs its bags and stampedes off, your mouth forgets what words are, and suddenly you’re feeling like a zebra at a cheetah party wondering why everyone is talking about being so hungry.

It can be like someone’s switched the signal to static. You can hear them talking—but are they speaking faster than usual? Or are you buffering? Either way, you’re now trapped inside your own head, holding five imaginary conversations (one of them a dog) while your face tries to look like it’s following along.

That’s what Things to Talk About is circling around. Not the tidy, scripted kind of conversation where everyone says the perfect thing at the perfect time. No, this is about the wobbly, sweaty-palmed, “why did I just say that?” version. The one where your mouth and your mind are clearly not on speaking terms.

Some people are born conversationalists. They glide through dialogue. The rest of us? We’re clinging to the edge of the conversational paddling pool, trying to remember our own name and whether it’s weird to mention soup twice.

This song is for that second group.

It lives in that fog. That gentle confusion. That high-level buzz in your brain (that sounds like a Kazoo) that says, “Maybe just smile and hope it ends soon.”

So if your mind has ever taken a sharp left mid-chat, or if you’ve ever waved goodbye and then walked in the same direction as the other person… this one’s for you.

We may not always know what to say. But at least we’re in it together. Quietly. Awkwardly. With soup. (DB)

Things to Talk About