Sean Cooney

I mean, that's what...

I always, almost like from a sort of puritanical folk singer's point of view, it was almost like, well, you never write about yourself.

Never convey your own emotions.

It's not your story that you tell.

That's what pop singers do.

You tell other people's stories.

But, you know, I think a big driving force of this has been Nessie's role in our family life.

So I couldn't not include her in this.

So I have, it's almost like too emotional to sort of think about writing a song, but I need to, I think I need to write all the others and then,

You'll come to that one last.

Yeah, and save it.

And also that is like, you know, she's getting older.

That's the thing about dogs.

They don't live very long.

So, you know, when you get them and when you love them, you know that, you know, it's not going to be forever.

And that's, I think that's an emotion in all of these.

In all of these stories, all the dogs I'm looking at on the books in front of me, the people who love them and the people whose lives they impacted so powerfully have said goodbye to them.

And that's part of this project as well, I think, is kind of coming to terms with that.

Yeah, hi, Tom.

Yeah, welcome to the Hallamshire house.