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from Begin Again by Iain Clarke

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This music has the definite autumnal feel to it in the descants and the string quartet sounds I wanted to create. I'm proud of the lyrics and I actually rate my vocal performance here along with Gemma as the 'voice in my head', but it's the instrumental passages I'm mostly proud of, particularly in the coda.

I'd completed the lyrics to this just before the attack, and were re-written just after it to reflect the feelings of recuperation; feeling very alone in the crowd, feeling that you have to change what you had for something that's 'almost' it. Again though, questioning what you had before had before-was it really so good?

lyrics

Jump start at eight; you’re an hour too late, still you turn away,
From the thoughts of the stares, that they’ll know that you’re there
And in the way, and still they’ll say:
Walking only gets you where you think you should be,
Moved in a town you don’t fit in.

A day in a hundred, you will pass muster among the crowds,
A lull in the battle, peace in the chatter that’s oh so loud,
And you say it proud:
Walking only gets you where you think you should be,
A place you know you can feel free,

Maybe,
Did you trade in your fade in for almost there?
Maybe,
You’re chasing the days with the golden air,
They’re not quite there.
You’re falling, in void no hope of the ground,
Lost in the space; lost in the sound.

Maybe,
Did you trade in your fade in for almost there?
Maybe,
You’re chasing the days with the golden air,
They’re not quite there.
You’re falling, in void no hope of the ground,
Lost in the space; lost in the sound.

credits

from Begin Again, released December 1, 2016
Instruments and vocals by Iain Clarke
Backing vocals by Gemma Jarrett.

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Iain Clarke Wakefield, UK

Hailing from Leeds, West Yorkshire, and now residing in Wakefield, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in his own right, Iain has played with well received Yorkshire bands including Hobson, Ringo and the Wolf, Late Arrivals Club, Crossland Fold and Nine Violets as well as releasing an album with respected New York artist Marc Teamaker and songs alongside Craig Buchannan as 2018 BC. ... more

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