Jont’s “The One I’ve Never Met Who I Long For” is a Wry, Bittersweet Meditation on Mythic Love, Inner Stillness, and the Beauty of Being Alive
Jont‘s first single of 2026, “The One I’ve Never Met Who I Long For,” arrives as a contemplative, gently defiant song about longing, inner peace, and the stories we tell ourselves about love. Wry, passionate, and deeply human, the track examines the myths we inherit and the freedom that comes from stepping outside them. It accompanies Jont’s announcement of his forthcoming new album, Walk Right Through, set for release on May 15th, 2026.
The song opens like a classic love story: vivid imagery, a magnetic gaze, the familiar promise of romantic rescue. But Jont upends the narrative in one soft but devastating line – Do you see this picture that I love to draw… of the one I’ve never met who I long for? What follows is a meditation on the myth of “the one,” the cultural conditioning that keeps us searching outward for completion.
“We carry a myth of love around with us. It’s so handy (no responsibility!) and so utterly false and disempowering yet we believe it,” Jont reflects. “True happiness lies outside of me. Repeat that. Let it sink like the deepest ink into your soul so that it can never be rinsed out. That is what lifetimes of conditioning have done. That is what we hand down to each other and is the lie we gorge on each day.”
Instead, the song points to a quieter, more grounded kind of wholeness: the bliss of being settled in yourself, the strange joy of lying awake and feeling fully alive, the satisfaction that asks nothing and proves no one is missing.
Is the narrator singing about the contentment of self-discovery or about a more mysterious, spiritual connection? “Is there a double meaning?” Jont asks. “Is he actually happily staring at the ceiling feeling connected to something so much more because he has actually finally met and returned home with ‘The One I’ve Never Met Who I Long For’? I’ll leave it to you to decide.”