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The Winter

from Begin Again by Iain Clarke

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The first track to be written in its entirety after the heart attack, and it seems to fit in here brilliantly. Walking daily back out in the community has brought me back to nature in a lot of ways. You get a lot more time out there to notice and to think. The music came one late September afternoon in the garden in the last hurrah of the Indian Summer with a backing track being very quickly recorded. I do like the looseness of the feel to it as well, there was a David Gray feel in the chords which I didn't shy away from.

The lyrics reflected my autumnal wanderings and prayers for a good deal of care to come my way really, looking for some sort of salvation in wanderings and wanting to create an atmosphere of breeze, leaves, smoke trails and biting air.

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So now the summer lies in ruins
All rust and all asleep,
A gold explosion of a dying sigh.
All is fleeting, all intransient
Caught on the endless turning wheel
Into the tunnel away from the dying light.

But while the golden beams still dapple,
Like a lover's sweet caress
Upon your face, upon the morning,
Upon the one I love the most.

I'm begging please,
On bended knees
Won't you save my soul through winter?

So as the daylight shrinks away,
Like a child too small, afraid
Hunched down by a candle in the darkened room;
As we clear the dust away-
The broken promises of May,
As the firelight cleanses nature's darkened room,

I see your light still in the shadows,
Like an ever burning glow;
Like a lamp to light the traveller,
A burning symbol yet of hope.

I'm begging please,
On bended knees
Won't you save my soul through winter?

And in the ever lasting constant of an ever changing life
Won't you stay to be the wonder that keeps my dreams so sweet alive?

Through the smoke rings and the debris,
In the misty morning air,
Through the rain as the sullen angels cry
For the annual armageddon;
For the cull and letting lie;
For the darkness brought to bring the world to sleep;

Won't you breathe your life upon me-
Bring me back to where I need?
Won't you scatter all my ashes;
Scatter me away to seed?

I'm begging please,
On bended knees
Won't you save my wretched soul?
I'm begging please,
On bended knees
Won't you save my soul through winter?

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from Begin Again, released December 1, 2016
All instruments and vocals by Iain Clarke.

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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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