We all live a number of lives during our brief time on this Earth. Different versions of the same person that we ultimately have to say goodbye to in order to grow into someone new. Old shells from a hermit crab, outgrown and left behind. Given enough time, our past selves become like strangers; but who else do we become estranged from in the process? ‘People We Used To Be’ is a song of bittersweet reunion, one that sees The Swell Season – the Oscar winning folk duo of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová – tenderly rebuilding their partnership after many years spent moving in different directions. It’s a moment of mourning for their past selves, that fittingly wonders on where a relationship stands given the passage of time. How much of a connection formed all that time ago still remains within their current incarnations. Does a partnership need to be forged anew, are the bonds we form yet another part of our past that we need to say goodbye to, or will it be strong enough to persist throughout all change and reinvention. Though the pair’s voices may carry a little more weight, and speak with a little more wisdom, having the two of them together in a video that calls back to their performances in the beloved film Once – seeing that, it feels like not a day has passed.