In keeping with the intended vinyl listening experience for a digital format, 'C Side Volume 5 - Little Blue Secrets - Side 2' acts digitally as a vinyl or tape recording would behave on your favourite old school player.
5. The Long Decline
Written in 2008 while living in a seaside duplex, passing through the emotional turmoil of living through a temporary breakup. The song is about the pointless act of keeping secrets throughout our lives, when at the end they will be there for all to see. Up in lights, our good, our bad, our everything. Most of all, 'The Long Decline' is a love song for our innermost heart, a serenade sung to the face we show nobody but the divine.
6. North of Nowhere
A song from 2009, 'North of Nowhere' is a pop-rock piece featuring the distorted sounds of an antique Hofner acoustic guitar no longer in existence. Lyrically, the story focuses on a lover looking back at better times before deciding to continue making a fist of a difficult relationship. Originally written for the band KUNST, the track was never used and was kept as a C Side.
7. Armageddon Lovers
In the year 1999 and again in 2012, the end of the world was a popular concept. Using upbeat music to underscore a world-ending theme, 'Armageddon Lovers' is a sarcastic retelling of times when apocalyptic thinking was, at least for some, a romantic notion. The song pretends to shake its fist at the divine for not bringing about Armageddon. Simultaneously, a different and more personal story is told through apocalyptic metaphor. Presented to Flowers For Lily in 2009 but ultimately rejected, 'Armageddon Lovers' was first released online as a C Side in 2011.
lyrics
5. THE LONG DECLINE
Lord I take a powder
The very one you offer
Should I waste the time
With giving up a world of lies
When I
I know you'll come by
To say goodnight
They say when we die
We all come down in lights
And I know
Our little secrets
Will shine
I've given up the water
The wine and tears and laughter
I've giving up the right
To ticking fears and long decline
When I
I know you'll come by
To say goodnight
They say when we die
We all come down in lights
And I know
Our little secrets
Will shine
6. NORTH OF NOWHERE
So it's over
We've come back down
From pleasant dreams
And I hope
I have your attention
And I hope
I could draw you away
So it's come down
To a place where we
Could never be
And I would always be
The saviour
And I hoped
I could draw you away
Never wanted to
Wannabe
Halfway home
With nowhere to go
And I remember
Promising
To never hope
That no-one was home
Well I hope
I have your attention
That I could
Draw you away
And I hope
That I could
Lend you an ear
That I could
Show you the way
Never wanted to
Wannabe
Halfway home
With nowhere to go
And I remember
Promising
To never hope
That no-one was home
7. ARMAGEDDON LOVERS
So there we waited
Heads stuck in sand
Singing only sweetness
Faith held in hand
So much for the end
All your promises
Where's your final call
Where's my tidal wave
Here we're slowly dying
Here we make our grave
Armageddon lovers
Now we'll never be
So disappointed
Lost and betrayed
Like lonesome orphans
Faith fallen dead
So much for the end
All your promises
Where's your final call
Where's my tidal wave
Here we're slowly dying
Here we make our grave
Armageddon lovers
Now we'll never be
You gambled out
Never came back down
Mother is long gone
Like father lost to war
So much for the end
All your promises
Where's your final call
Where's my tidal wave
Here we're slowly dying
Here we make our grave
Armageddon lovers
Now we'll never be
credits
from C Side Volume 5 - Little Blue Secrets,
released July 9, 2016
Written, Performed, Recorded, Sampled, Spliced, Arranged and Mixed by Jimmy Sky
Mastered by LANDR
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