“Older Than You” by Eskimo Joe

"Older Than You" was the last single Eskimo Joe pulled from A Song Is a City, their second album, in 2004, and it's the record at its most heart-on-sleeve. Kav Temperley wrote it in the autumn after a four-year relationship ended, when he went to Melbourne to see a woman who had helped tip that breakup over. Nothing happened. She was a bit younger than him, but he saw an old soul looking back out of her eyes, and he chose to keep his distance rather than leap straight from one love into another.

It peaked at 46 in Australia, then took Best Group for the band at the 2005 ARIA Music Awards, while Paul McKercher's work on it was up for Producer of the Year and Engineer of the Year.

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