EVERYTIME – The Hidden Face of Love

by BOXEDGE

I wrote the first version of “Everytime” many years ago.
The melody was written together with my cousin Eric (an Italian professional composer and arranger), while the lyrics were entirely my own — inspired by a friend I had at the time, and by a real episode I witnessed, which I later distorted in my own way.

Now the song returns in a completely new form: reimagined, rearranged, and sung by Lunaria Payne.
It was first released as a single on streaming platforms (in 2024), and is now also part of the album Afterglow.

It’s not a love song — even if it sounds like one.
It’s a disturbing confession, disguised as a soul ballad.
A voice — Lunaria’s — sings with sweetness something that is anything but sweet.

The protagonist is a lucid psychopath, though not a fictional killer.
She’s a woman who transforms to survive: she changes her face, her voice, her lover.
Every time the other’s gaze begins to truly see her, she dons a new disguise and disappears.

In the chorus, she dreams of flying like a flower on the wind — a poetic, almost innocent image — but that flight is a serial escape, a toxic ecstasy.
The flower drifts into the stars, and with it, any trace of reality.

Her pain?
It’s not faced. It’s only dispersed, briefly, like a ghost in the rain.

Why did I arrange it this way?

I didn’t want an electronic track.
I wanted the music to lie as much as the voice does.

warm piano, but ambiguous.
Soulful brass, seemingly full of empathy… yet just glitter on an emotional crime scene.
An electric bass pulsing like an obsessive heart.
And a few jazzy harmonic slips, to suggest that something is off, a mind pretending to be sane, but isn’t.

“Everytime” is an elegant staging, a solitary dance repeated over and over, in a desperate attempt to feel alive.

But the only audience is a mirror.

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Listen to "Everytime"

“Everytime” was first released as a streaming single in 2024, and in 2025 it became part of the album Afterglow, available on CD and vinyl.

You can listen to it on streaming — on Spotify, Apple Music, and all major digital platforms.
But only those who own the original vinyl or CD have heard the silence hidden between the tracks.
That silence lives only in the original editions by Boxedge feat. Lunaria Payne.
You can find them here.

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