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Written and recorded in 2009

I didn't have good memories of this one. This is the flip side to the earlier 2009 ones. I suppose I was in a bit of dark place when I wrote this one, and I remembered it being a laborious and forced process, to the point that I dropped it immediately. But listening to again fresh, it's got some startlingly raw lyrics in it for me. I can hear the Elliott Smith influence

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Another day of stone
Where nothing went right
Another walk alone
Through the hard part of the night

Your memory playing all today's wrongs
A broken record full of scratchy old songs
Set the anger alight and smell the incense
Sit back and watch the show
From a safe distance

Little child who looks like you
Who inside is hurting
Cold and longing
And feeling nothing
Feeling nothing

Come on, light a fire and watch it burn
This is corner to which you always turn
Light a fire and watch it burn
Light a fire and watch it burn

People think it's nothing but that's because it is
When a momentary blind spot seems like an abyss
Your memory is playing all today's faces
Unresolving shapes in tainted, damaged places
Damaged places

Come on, light a fire and watch it burn
This is corner to which you always turn
Light a fire and watch it burn
Light a fire and watch it burn

The simmering doubt is too much to hold
You need to get some relief or else you'll explode
Set the anger alight and smell the incense
Sit back and watch the show
From a safe distance
Safe distance
Safe distance

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from Lost in the Woods, released November 3, 2023

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Lewis Mullen Glasgow, UK

I write the kind of music I'd like to listen to, and I hope you enjoy listening to it to. It's a window into a slightly different world that's a more honest mirror of our own

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