Journey
Data or no Disc Found

Back then we were on a journey of a life time
We were trying to make our dreams come true
And I knew I’d never find another person
Who would make me laugh the way you do

Sometimes I feel like I’m still stuck in that day
Sometimes I feel like I’m still eight years old
Stuck in a traffic jam, lookin’ out the window
Watching all the cars fly right past me
But then I saw a sign that told me
I was not alone in my plight
There was someone out there who was

Just as lonely as me
But now I’m all alone in this world
That I’ve created for me
And I know that you’re out there somewhere
But all the same I keep on going
Never looking, never watching
Just hoping maybe you’ll appear to me.

Back then we were on a journey of a life time
We were trying to make our dream come true
But I never knew there was a person
Who could be so special to me as you

So as I sat there in my car
Watching other traffic go by
Wondering what I should do
Should I take the wheel and drive myself?
Or should I sit here and wait?
I look out of the window
And I see I sign
That tells me there is someone else

And as I stand on a darkened stage
With the spotlights ready to point at me
All the staring faces looking up
They’re all looking up at me
I think of that sign you gave me
And the hope you made me feel
There somewhere in the darkness
Is someone else like me.

Back then we were on a journey of a life time
We were trying to making out dreams come true
But now I know I’m a stronger, better person
All because the one who gave me that sign was you!

12th May 2005

There is a story behind the writing of this song. When young singer Aimee D’lliance was eight years old, she was in a car on the way to a recording studio for a meeting with her new manager, but they got stuck in a traffic jam on the way there.

Sitting in the car and looking out of the window she noticed a sign being held up to the window of the car along side her own. The sign said, in large black letters written in marker pen ‘Show Me Your Bra Please’. The person holding this sign was an eight-year-old boy who wrote that his name was Alex.

By a mixture of writing messages on scraps of paper, using sign language and lip reading, the two managed to have a conversation until the cars started moving. But when Alex asked what Aimee’s name was, she attempted to sign back her stage name (Deadly and terrible alliance), but this was too difficult and long, and so she simply signed back the initials of the name; ‘D-A-T-A’.

When they eventually got to the studio, Aimee had made up her mind and announced that she would no longer be singing cover versions of other people’s songs, and would now be known as Data. But this meeting wasn’t the last as the two have met by chance a number of times since then, but that first meeting has always stuck in Data’s mind as the day her ‘true form’ awakened.