In keeping with the intended vinyl listening experience for a digital format, 'C Side Volume 1 - Dark Waters - Side 2' acts digitally as a vinyl or tape recording would behave on your favourite old school player.


Side 2 Track Listing:

4. Disappointment
'Kill my disappointment, murder all these thorns around my eyes'. A desperate, almost violent plea for release from the day to day agony of depression, exacerbated by loss and the dissolution of dreams. 'Disappointment' is a hymn to the quiet lies we, the depressed and bleak, tell ourselves to get through each day; the consistent, silent begging we for absolution from what we unfairly tell ourselves we deserve. Written in 2009 and released on the web in 2011.


5. Juvenescence
Penned during an intense closed-door, closed-house writing period, 'Juvenescence' is by definition about the act or process of growing from childhood to youth, and on a deeper level, emotional growing pains. Many of us struggle with the dualistic notion that even as everything falls apart, things will be alright in the end. Nothing will be the same, change is inevitable, and more often than we like to admit, it hurts. Wading into the ocean of life and learning, we are beset by the lies of our loved ones, well-intentioned but ultimately damaging. Eventually, we have no choice but to accept it and move on. 'Juvenescence' was written in 2009 and released on the web in 2011.


6. My Lover Went To Japan
Composed after a long flight, no sleep and the sudden realisation that amorous feelings for a country are possible. 'My Lover Went To Japan' is a simple homage and love affair with the beautiful nation of Japan, a recollection of two golden weeks that will never be repeated nor exceeded. 'My Lover Went to Japan' is for Nobuo Uematsu, Hayao Miyazaki, the art of Tenshin Shoden Katori Ryu, for Kyoto, Osaka, for shared experiences, for love, and a thousand more incredible pieces of Japanese culture and landscape that words cannot express. The track was composed in 2010 and features an introduction piece performed on Shokubo from Japan.


7. To Forever
'To Forever' is an admission of admiration for a lost lover. The romantic notion that our paramours are angelic is of great value, and when they prove themselves against our darkness, remaining regardless of the odds, that is a treasure beyond worth. At the moment of breakup, the grief can be incredible, and the end of promised eternities can feel insurmountable. If we loved them so much, they were always better than ourselves, for they made us better than who we were alone. 'To Forever' was written in 2010.