Sam Johnson - Peter Pan (Acoustic) / Meet Me On The Boat

Sam Johnson – Peter Pan (Acoustic) / Meet me on the boat ► Stream & download single here: https://umg.lnk.to/PeterPan #SamJohnson #PeterPan #AcousticVideo #MeetMe Follow Sam Johnson: ► Instagram: http://instagram.com/hellosamjohnson ► Facebook: http://facebook.com/hellosamjohnson ► Twitter: http://twitter.com/hellosamjohnson Filmed by Isy Townsend ► LYRICS When I was a boy, I had a book in my eye, A good head on my shoulders, But a thorn in my side. I had it all figured out until I turned 16. I gathered my thoughts, And I walked out the door, I said bye to my mother, I didn’t need her anymore. I was full of dreams, And sweet ketamine when I left. I had highs, I had lows, I didn’t try anymore. I grew out my hair, And I lied to them all. I lived for the ups, But I’d die for the lows, Singing “I never wanna grow old”. Hello old friend, It’s good to see you again, It’s been so long, Since we first met. I’d love to say that things haven’t changed, But you’ve moved on, And I’m still, Lost in Neverland, But I’m no Peter Pan. Well now I’m a poet, With a pen in my hand, Just another lost boy, Trying hard to understand why, The kid in the mirror’s got a beard, And a fear of his watch. I tried asking the stars, How they lived in the dark, They told me it’s easy, When you know who you are. Well how do you do, I’m the boy that you thought you once knew. I have highs, I have lows, I miss flying back home, I love all my friends, But I hate when they go. I tried growing up, But it just wouldn’t work, Singing “I never wanna grow old”. Hello old friend, It’s good to see you again, It’s been so long, Since we first met. I’d love to say that things haven’t changed, But you’ve moved on, And I’m still, Hello old friend, It’s good to see you again, It’s been so long, Since we first met. I’d love to say that things haven’t changed, But you’ve moved on, And I’m still, Lost in Neverland, But I’m no Peter Pan. (x2) ► MEANING Originally written for one of my friends as a tale of his struggles with addiction and depression, my friend and collaborator Odd Martin suggested that I write the song as if his life were my own and to therefore lyrically step into his shoes, prefacing every sentence with ‘I’. Suddenly the song blossomed into an amalgamation of both our lives and experiences. Having grown up in the same town, gone to the same school, and shared lots of the same friends, my friend and I had been cut from a very similar cloth, and yet grown apart in our twenties. I likened his tale to one of my favourite novels; ‘Peter Pan’, and also my own fear of leaving childhood behind. Naming the song and constructing it’s metaphor around the aforementioned “boy that never grew up” therefore seemed like the perfect antidote. Music video by Sam Johnson performing Peter Pan (Acoustic) / Meet Me On The Boat. © 2020 Sam Johnson, under exclusive license to Universal Music GmbH http://vevo.ly/vVcrGS

Added 5 Jul 2026