Breakthrough indie-pop artist Matt Hansen has an incredible story, racking up more than a billion streams as an independent artist without a label, and with the release of his debut album, Orchid, last week, he’s only getting started.
He’s made a name for himself with soulful vocals, a rousing sound and vulnerable, unfiltered and deeply resonant lyrics, all of which are the driving force between the album’s 17 tracks. It features his biggest viral hits including “something to remember,” “LET EM GO,” “yellowstone (holding you)” and more, inhabiting the highest highs and lowest lows of being in love, and their place in the full scope of the human experience. To celebrate, we’ve collected Matt’s all-time most memorable lyrics, from Orchid and beyond, to use as Instagram captions. Discover them below.
For working hard to curate the loving life you desire:
“They say that life is short and love is like a garden. You rip through all the weeds to find ’til death departed. The diggin’, it gets harder for the broken-hearted. You plant the seeds in hopes that something starts.”
-“love is like a garden”
For realizing maturity is about forgiveness and grace:
“You lеarn that keeping score is just a pointless tally ’cause еvery road will bring you closer to a love.”
-“love is like a garden”
For stepping into your full potential:
“It’s about time I finally feel alive.”
-“love is like a garden”
For when the past won’t leave you be:
“The memories come, but they don’t go. I hear the echoes poundin’ in my head.”
-“something to remember”
For when you just can’t let go:
“I moved out, but I never moved on.”
-“something to remember”
For the one you’ll always remember:
“All of my friends were wrong, they said that I’d forget her, but she’s the kind of song you could play forever.”
-“something to remember”
For wondering how they don’t feel the same:
“Do you not miss me anymore? Or are you really good at hiding it?”
-“something to remember”
For that untouchable heartache that gets worse and worse:
“Like an itch that I can’t scratch on the center of my back. I ignore it, but it only makes it grow.”
-“SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN”
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For when you’re not together but not apart:
“It never cuts that clean. We’re somewhere in between.”
-“SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN”
For feeling like you’ve lost half of yourself:
“How do I move on from all that I knew? All that I wanted was to be someone to you.”
-“SOMEONE TO YOU”
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For getting pulled back to them every time:
“Guess you brought me right back down where you wanted me.”
-“GRAVITY”
For when you didn’t recognize the end:
“I can’t lie, I didn’t see it comin’. All this time, and it was runnin’ out, runnin’ out.”
-“VERSIONS OF FOREVER”
For when they move on without you:
“I guess we had different versions of ‘forever.’ Mine was for life, yours was ’til there’s someone better.”
-“VERSIONS OF FOREVER”
For realizing you drove them away:
“Darlin’, we were a hurricane, but I spun you out.”
-“VERSIONS OF FOREVER”
For when you can only do so much:
“Don’t wanna break your heart, but I keep breaking mine. Oh, I can’t love you and love me at the same time.”
-“SAME TIME”
For wishing you could see through your own actions:
“Is it self-preservation, or is it just self-sabotage?”
-“SAME TIME”
For yearning to hold on to what you once had:
“Starin’ at the ceilin’, tryna fight the feelin’. Deep inside your heart, you know it isn’t what it was.”
-“LET EM GO”
For refusing to believe what’s right in front of you:
“You could try to wrestle with the mirror, but the truth, it can’t be any clearer than that.”
-“LET EM GO”
For when the truth hurts as it sets you free:
“Sometimes, you need the rain to know you miss the sun. Sometimes, you need the pain to know it isn’t love.”
-“LET EM GO”
For needing to embrace something painful:
“When what hurts and what’s right are the same.”
-“LET EM GO”
For the person who helps you find yourself:
“Lately I’ve been lost in every crowd, but with you, I’m a little bit found.”
-“FOUND”
For admiring someone’s self-expression:
“I talk in riddles when I’m nervous, but you know exactly what to say.”
-“FOUND”
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For pretending what you have can never go away:
“If it’s not forever, I don’t wanna know it yet.”
-“BEFORE WE KNOW IT”
For feeling like it’s never enough time:
“And tomorrow there’s not enough time on the clock for me to borrow.”
-“BEFORE WE KNOW IT”
For the one you’d run to in your final moments:
“I’ll be right where you are until the mountains break apart.”
-“yellowstone (holding you)”
For knowing exactly where you’ll end up, whatever the odds:
“Roll the dice, every time I would end up in your arms, don’t you ever doubt.”
-“COMPASS”
For the love that’ll always be your guiding light:
“Be my compass when every lighthouse is going dark. I’ll be on my way.”
-“COMPASS”
For holding on when everything seems pitted against you:
“Restless, hands are shaking. Anxious, heart is racing. Don’t know what to do.”
-“VISION”
For the hard lesson that teaches you precisely what you need to know:
“Sometimes, what breaks your heart will clear your vision. It might leave a scar, but the skin ain’t splittin’.”
-“VISION”
For working to release the past:
“The past will try to haunt you. Every step, it taunts you Keep on pushing through ’til you cut it loose.”
-“VISION”
For keeping your eyes set on the future:
“Don’t look back now. We don’t gotta live in the past now.”
-“DON’T LOOK BACK”
For the love like an unstoppable force of nature:
“You’re like a whirlwind and I’m getting carried away, making my world spin. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
-“whirlwind”
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For accepting the end:
“Started to think for the first time. It feels like there’s nothing to lose.”
-“FIRST TIME”
For knowing it’s time to let someone go:
“There she goes, like rain through my fingertips. All I know is I gotta let her go.”
-“Orchid”
For the place that always makes you think of them:
“Hard to say if it’s haunted in these hallways, but the ghost of us is always hanging around.”
-“better off without me”
For acting like strangers when there’s no one you know better:
“You’ll pretend you don’t know me like we never met, but all of your secrets are burned in my head.”
-“strangers again”
For needing them to just say what they mean:
“Maybe I’m just reading it wrong. Don’t leave me in between the lines.”
-“Love Me Now Or Lose Me Later”
For needing a firm commitment:
“If you don’t love me now, love me now, you’ll lose me later.”
-“Love Me Now Or Lose Me Later”
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