Sam Bentley has described “Maria, It’s Time” as being “about a girl who has an unplanned baby… working out how she’s going to make it work”. Most of the lyrics read as if they’re being relayed from...
In writing June’s Stolen Car, Sam Bentley set out to imitate, in his own words, “the folk music of the 60s and 70s”, the type of which not only have “beautiful melodies” but also an...
“Burn the Night Away” is sorta reminiscent to “Good Nights Gone”, the one that precedes it on the playlist of “At the Roadhouse”, in that the (presumably) romantic relationship between the vocalist and addressee reads like...
“Good Nights Gone” is a song of romantic heartbreak, and a pretty sad one at that. It is the third verse especially that has the potential to hit a listener in the feels, as it...
The lyrics of “Hurts So Good” aren’t necessarily the easiest to make comprehensive sense of. But it appears that they are philosophical in nature, and the concept they speak to is along the lines of...
Sam Bentley has described this “Rolling On Easy” as being about “a character that moves from town to town, leaving nothing but memories of her”. And that would indeed be the subject at hand, with the...
This is a song of heartbreak, one in which the vocalist is lamenting his sweetheart having “moved to Marietta”. In other words, she did so without him. And the writer/singer, Sam Bentley, described this piece in an...
A blue flame is a complete fire in a manner of speaking, i.e. said color connoting the hottest type of flame. So when the vocalist expresses his intent to “burn” with the addressee “until the...
The Paper Kites is a band from Australia with a discography dating back in 2010. Throughout the years, they’ve established themselves as a mainstay act in their homeland. On 1 September 2023, the group’s studio album, “At...
On September 1st, 2023, The Paper Kites released the album, which goes by the title “At the Roadhouse”. According to an Instagram post, the band revealed that the album was birthed during “a month-long...