about
In keeping with the intended vinyl listening experience for a digital format, 'C Side Volume 6 - Fading Shadows - Side 1' acts digitally as a vinyl or tape recording would behave on your favourite old school player.
Side 1 track listing:
1. Hell
A personal story about living with personal issues and broken self-esteem; concurrently, the people who come into your life and change everything irrevocably, forcing growth but finally leaving you to wallow in a wasteland of unprocessed misery. Created in 2012 and unreleased until 2015. Images and poetry for this song were inspired by Neil Gaiman's Dream King and the Sandman graphic novels.
2. The Weaker Sex
There is no such thing as a 'weaker sex'. We all have the capacity to destroy each other. There are few experiences comparable to living day to day on the whims of a lover incapable of deciding the importance of their paramour. Such a person appears weak, indecisive, but the person bearing the brunt of such lackluster love might see their coldness as incredibly strong. Sometimes we just long to be held, for the games to end, and for contentment to appear. Penned in 2013 and unreleased until 2015.
3. Eaves and Boughs
'Eaves and Boughs' is a simple musical picture depicting deeper themes. On the surface, pretty pop rock overlays a lyrical backdrop of mountain romance. Underneath, a to-and-fro story of melancholy and softly breaking hearts comes to life amid long notes of recessed reverb. The song was written in 2013 in wistful tribute to the gentle ease that love can bring, as well as a tribute to the mixture of strange, ferocious beauty a great lover often represents to their paramour. Remastered in 2016 and released as part of 'C Side Volume 6 - Fading Shadows'.
4. Smoke
So many songs are written for breakups, for romance, for lost love. Few discuss what happens after in a positive light. Society remains divided on the notion of remaining friends following the death of a romance. However, if we love another person so deeply, how can we claim to have loved them if we so easily say goodbye? 'Smoke' is an old time ballad about keeping your loved ones in your life, even after they're gone. Penned in 2015 and released for the first time in 2016.
lyrics
1. HELL
I loved my big throne
To sit on all alone
I was lord of hell
Then you flew on in
A fairy on the wind
LIt up all my hallways
This angel in my home
This angel at my door
Made me lose my loneliness
My lovers left me
Godless and ghostly
Heaven descended
But I'm glad you're leaving darling
These demons couldn't handle you here
We're glad you're leaving darling
My demons die but don't disappear
They're glad you're leaving darling
Cause no one wants to see my disease
We're glad you're leaving darling
Cause heaven makes me die on my knees
And angels made me bleed
Your tears were so bright
A child of pure light
Scattered all my people
Part of a big scene
Delivered my dreams
Full of future promises
There on the bed sheets
How well you did bleed
Shocked me out of plain sight
Under my black wing
Softened a mad king
And left me there to suffer
I'm glad you're leaving darling
These demons couldn't handle you here
We're glad you're leaving darling
My demons die but don't disappear
They're glad you're leaving darling
Cause no one wants to see my disease
We're glad you're leaving darling
Cause heaven makes me die on my knees
And angels made me bleed
2. THE WEAKER SEX
I won't fight for you
I'm not that type
I don't stand a chance
Against the meaner ones in life
Tell my lies
Pretend I'm careless
Fearless darkness
My coward light
Scared to death of everyone
I wish I had your strength
I wish I had your strength
Tell my sight
To see a better day at night
While you decide directions
With your secret heart fight
I'm not alright
Despite contrary affirmations
When you sigh
Another's name
It just might break me
I wish I had your strength
I wish I had your strength
I wish I had your strength
I wish I had your strength
I wish I had your strength
I wish I had your strength
Baby put your pistols away
Hold my shadow pieces of me
Anger and despair are just a phase
And they fade
And they fade
And they fade
3. EAVES AND BOUGHS
Hey come and stay
Lie here with me
The misty mountains
Not your lover today
Hopelessly
Stare into me
In this doorway
We are never afraid
I won't be the one who ran away
We will never speak of it again
Hold me like you mean the things you say
Ferocious beautiful and ever strange
Gone tragedy
Love is our key
Never see
Another tear again
Never again
I won't be the one who ran away
We will never speak of it again
Hold me like you mean the things you say
Ferocious beautiful and ever strange
4. SMOKE
Dawn gave me grieving
A blizzard ablaze
Bombshells a'burning
Too little too late
For yonder my lover
Already round the bend
So I begged her
Would you remain my friend
For our smoke seems to linger
On houses and trains
Diamonds are duller
When the fire blows away
And no two shone dearer
Than we two engaged
So I beg you
Remain my friend
And if you never loved me
Would you be my friend
And if you'll never love me
Would you be friend
And if you'd never love me
Would you be my friend
And you never love me
Would you be me friend
credits
from
C Side Volume 6 - Fading Shadows,
released July 15, 2016
Lyrics, Sampling, Music and Performances by Jimmy Sky
Recorded, Arranged and Mixed by Jimmy Sky
Mastered by LANDR
Photography and Cover Art by Jimmy Sky
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