Continuing the intended vinyl listening experience for a digital format, this collection acts digitally as a vinyl or tape recording would behave on your favourite old school player. Except with three sides instead of two.
Side 2 Tracklisting:
4.Forsake Me Not
The first draft of 'Forsake Me Not' was penned in 2005 during a creative whirlwind, intended to accompany tracks on the first 'A Name Will Come' EP. For those who remember, the song was written alongside 'Breaking Bread' and is similar in its theme as a plaintive hymn to a forgetful deity. However when cuts were made, the track was among those that didn't make it to the studio. Later recorded at home as an exercise in merging lo-fi sounds with a clearer sound, the song remains at heart a dark but truthful love song.
5. Games of Hide & Seek
'Games of Hide & Seek' is a down-beat, trip-hop inspired piece of dark, soft rock with a lot of history inside. First penned in the study of a seaside flat in 2005 and originally titled 'SS Eternity', the track explores in minute, metaphoric detail the experience of love mixed with anxious, depressive, nihilistic expectation. As much an emotional parody of 'the little death' as an autobiographical piece, the song represents a further pivotal change in songwriting and style.
lyrics
4. FORSAKE ME NOT
Why
The pain you put me through
This agony
This trial
What have I done to you
Why
Won't you let me come on home
Why
Won't you take me now
Forsake me not
Desperately I'm yours
Dying on all fours
Set me free today
I have seen what comes
I am not damned or done
No lake of fire holds a place for me
Only darkness wandering
I see
Forsake me not
Desperately I am yours
Dying on all fours
Set me free today
5. GAMES OF HIDE & SEEK
In this chapel
Blackened charred and spent
Lies a body aching
Metaphoric
For the way I feel
Taken by another
I cry again
I die again
Why this lie
Is it just a game
I don't want to play
I cry again
And my soul darkens
In this graveyard
There's a parthenon
There we're lying talking
Doesn't matter
All the feelings gone
Severed heart remaining
I cry again
I die again
Why this lie
Is it just a game
I don't want to play
I cry again
And my soul darkens
credits
from C Side Volume 2 - Sinking Ships,
released April 14, 2016
Written, Performed, Recorded and Mixed by Jimmy Sky
Mastered by LANDR
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