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Through the Floor

from Lost in the Woods by Lewis Mullen

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Written and recorded in 2009

Through the Floor is from a transitional period in my songwriting. I’d not king returned from the North East to my home town of Falkirk, leaving behind a folk rock band that had dragged the songwriter out of me and pushed them shivering onto the brightly lit stage. In the months between leaving Aberdeen (and Finnegans Wake) and co-forming The Ferny Brackens, I was making little demos on my home multitrack recorder and figuring out my voice (in all sense of the word). The title came to me when I was in a downstairs restaurant and could hear only the baseline of the music playing in the bar upstairs, because I was hearing it “through the floor”. The song then wandered off and became about something else as they often do

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Went up town one sunny day

To see if I could get my way

Up three flights

To your room with a view

To see if I could fascinate you



But you said I could bore

All though the floor



Went back up the very next day

To see if you could be swayed

But your impatience was resolute

You threw me down the garbage chute



All because I could bore

All though the floor



Went up to the Library

To see if I’d get inspired there

I’ll sit in trash below your flat

To serenade you with some facts



All because I can bore

All though the floor

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from Lost in the Woods, released November 3, 2023

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