Jason LaPierre x eda’s “There Are Things I’d Like to Say” Is a Gentle Goodbye

By FusioNostalgia

“There Are Things I’d Like to Say” feels like a whispered memory—something gentle, half-lit, and impossibly tender. In this final collaboration between Jason LaPierre and the late Filipina artist eda, the listener is invited into a space that holds both beauty and ache. The song is not just a duet, but a dialogue suspended in time, carrying the emotional weight of words never spoken and the hush of a farewell that came too soon.

Jason LaPierre has built his musical world out of soul-bearing textures and a reverence for sound. From the golden haze of jazz guitar to the delicate hush of indie pop, his music captures emotion with a craftsman’s touch. It’s no wonder he’s found a global audience, with over 20 million streams and near a million monthly listeners. Yet, despite these numbers, there’s an intimacy in his sound that remains untouched by the massness of his reach. “There Are Things I’d Like to Say” carries that quality forward—one final chapter written not with grandeur, but with grace.

Eda’s voice floats through the song like a memory that refuses to fade. Known for her emotional clarity and ethereal delivery, her presence here is haunting and luminous, a final bow captured on tape. The track doesn’t strive for resolution—it lives in the uncertain space between presence and absence, between what we meant to say and what stayed locked behind silence. There’s something deeply human in that tension, and it’s where LaPierre and eda find their emotional resonance.

Musically, the track draws from LaPierre’s well of influences: the melodic elegance of Wes Montgomery, the lyrical hush of Chet Baker, the storytelling pull of Billie Holiday. There’s something cinematic in the way it unfolds, like the bittersweet montage of a film’s final scene. You hear it in the warmth of the guitar tones, the slow-moving harmonies, the way both voices lean into each other but never quite meet fully—it’s as if they’re reaching across distance, or time.

More than a single, “There Are Things I’d Like to Say” is a quiet monument to connection. It doesn’t shout, it doesn’t demand. It simply lingers, like a letter that will never be sent, like a moment you wish you could go back to just once more. For Jason LaPierre, it becomes the heart of his debut album—a project shaped not just by sound, but by emotion, memory, and the stories that stay with us even when the music fades.

In the end, the song is unfinished—not because it lacks anything, but because life often is. And in its incompletion, it becomes something entirely complete.