Amelie Lucille’s “Starts With Us” Live Explores the Pain of Being Second Choice
Amelie Lucille strips away the polished production of Starts With Us in a raw live version released November 27, 2024, just five days after the original track.
This intimate reimagining puts her storytelling abilities front and centre, armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar and those achingly honest vocals.
The live rendition peels back the layers to expose the song’s beating heart, a brutally candid confession about being the temporary chapter in someone else’s love story.
When Lucille delivers the line “it’s always gonna end with her,” the stripped-down format amplifies the resignation in her voice, creating a moment of shared vulnerability.
After the success of her emotionally charged Pool earlier this year, Lucille continues to prove she knows exactly how to weaponise vulnerability.
In this acoustic version, she trades elaborate metaphors for stark simplicity, letting the raw truth do the heavy lifting.
By swapping studio polish for raw acoustics, Lucille transforms “Starts With Us” into a different beast entirely – less a breakup song, more an unfiltered truth about love’s collateral damage.
This version might make you wish all your favourite songs came with their own “guard down” edition.
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Amelie Lucille “Starts with Us” Lyrics
Do you find comfort in my pain?
‘Cause you know it only goes one way
Now I’ll never know what you meant
‘Cause you were the reason that I left
Now so much still goes unsaid
I long to hear the ache
The ache in your heart
We’ll never be the same
You always have the choice
Why do you act this way?
Give me time
To walk away
Were you always gonna run?
No matter who got hurt?
‘Cause even when it starts with us
It’s always gonna end with her
It’s always gonna end with her
