Someone Else’s Future

A song about taking control of your own future, rather than living someone else’s.

I wrote Someone Else’s Future after realising how often people try to write your life for you before you’ve even had a chance to live it.

Growing up in a small town, everyone seems to have an opinion about what you should do next. Stay close to home. Get a sensible job. Find the right person. Settle down. None of those things are wrong, but I started to realise they were other people’s dreams for me, not necessarily my own.

That’s where the title came from.

I remember thinking, What if I’m living someone else’s future instead of my own?

That question stayed with me for weeks.

The song isn’t about rejecting where I came from or the people who cared about me. Most of them genuinely wanted the best for me. But sometimes people try to protect you by making your world smaller, and I needed to find out what happened if I made mine bigger.

Leaving home to chase music was frightening because there were no guarantees. There wasn’t a roadmap. There were plenty of people who thought I was making a mistake. But I’d rather fail chasing my own dream than succeed living somebody else’s.

I think that’s why this song means so much to me. At some point, we all have to decide whose life we’re actually living. Our parents’, our teachers’, our friends’, or our own.

Whenever I sing Someone Else’s Future, it reminds me that the hardest decisions are often the ones that shape us the most. The future isn’t something we’re supposed to inherit. It’s something we’re supposed to create for ourselves.