Here's A Song About A Girl... & A Plane.

Sophomore year of high school is when I met one of the original members of Caravel, a bass player named Dyllan, in Algebra class. After small talk became long conversations about music, we quickly decided to hook up and start playing music together. Although we’ve went through many name changes and disagreements, this is what eventually created Caravel as we know today.

I was 15 years old when we started to put some songs together. I’d bring my acoustic guitar to school. Afterwards, I would ride with Dyllan to his house.

If you are anywhere around my age, you probably remember in 2014-2016ish that “Kik” was the texting app everyone was using. Well, yeah. I was on Kik and the girl that would eventually change my life and the way I write music, had added me on Kik. Her name is Cassie. I have no clue how or why she requested to be my friend. We had no mutual friends or connections with anyone. We just suddenly appeared on each other’s friends list. I’ve always been a scaredy-cat initiating conversation with girls, and I still am. But, I soon gathered enough courage to message her. After talking for a week or two, we decided we wanted to hang out. She even lived around the same neighborhood as Dyllan.

Next time me and Dyllan hung out, I told him “there’s this girl I like that lives around the corner from you, and I told her to come by and listen to us play” (we sucked really bad lol). Surprisingly, she actually showed up! After playing music for her and talking, we offered to walk her home as we were carrying our guitars. After we walked her back home, Dyllan and I wrote a cheesy ass song about Cassie called “Streetlight.” When we got back to Dyllan’s house, we actually had a verse down and I decided to step out on a leg and video us playing the song we wrote to send to Cassie. Sure enough, we did. After we sent that video, on that same night, is when Cassie and I really hit it off and officially became a couple.

I was in JROTC in high school (it was actually was pretty cool lol.) Every year, JROTC did a military ball, an event where everyone dresses formal and fancy alongside their dates. Of course, I asked Cassie to go with me, and she said yes. This ball was held in the ballroom at a DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel right across the street from Hobby Airport. Neither of us were that great with crowds. So, we decided to just leave the ballroom and go outside and just hang out by ourselves. Of course, like a typical high school couple, we kissed and held each other and whatnot. We were sitting on a bench in the front of the hotel. The runways of Hobby Airport are lined up in a perfect direction to where the planes took off and flew right over our heads. So a plane takes off and flies right over us...and yeah, you guessed it… She told me, “I wish we could just jack an airplane and fly away...” Of course, that exact line got implanted into my head immediately. We kept talking about it. If it were up to us, we could just be alone and be ourselves without worrying about what others think, and not have to pretend to be what people around us think we should be.

That very night, I sat down with a guitar and wrote the chorus. The very original song was titled “Jack an Airplane and Fly Away,” and some of the words in the verses were different with a different sound. The verses of the song today were changed in the studio with Walle during pre-production. However, the chorus and the bridge of the song have remained 100% the original way I wrote them that night when I was 15.

It’s hard for me to comprehend that I wrote this song without a clue in the world at 15 years old, and now here we are today releasing it as a single along with our first music video. This song will always be dear to my heart, and I hope it touches our listeners the way it still touches me today. We all wish we could just be somewhere alone with the person we love, without society judging our every move. This song is basically a fun way to explain the purity and genuine expression of what it’s like to fall for someone as a teenager.

Love all of y’all, and I’m glad everyone loves this song. We can’t express that enough. Thank you!