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Eyes Receding (new album demo)

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The title gives a big clue here!

Like last month's track, here's another from the upcoming album. I'm gonna say the record is 36% of the way there! Should be going in to record proper bed tracks, soon (this version is all me)

The song's a relatively old one (I think I wrote it during a residency in the Rocky Mountains in 2016) and, somewhat unusually for me, is quite direct, lyrically. It's part of a group of songs that were trying to process the loss of a dear friend in 2013, the first time I'd lost someone so close to me, and so unexpectedly. I could still hear her voice so clearly in my head, and wondered if, or when, that would start to fade. How long would it take to forget the way she moved in the world, her presence, her smell, even?

Beyond that it's also a note to myself to try to remain present.

Anyway, much love to those of you dealing with your own grief

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EYES RECEDING

Words carved out of a stone, her eyes receding
As long as I can hear a voice - does that slip, too?
Let in more than I should excuse, is that misleading?
Hunched up shoulders over your rolled up sleeves

Once in a while I get out, ablaze with feeling
Better to call, or not at all? There's time, still

Pictures of a time shorn of feeling
Says: I should only hold this moment now

Take it back
can't take it back

Words carved out of a stone, her eyes receding
As long as I can hear a voice in this moment, now

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released March 2, 2024

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Musical monstrosity deposited in Montreal, Quebec after the first years in Burnley, England.

Tim Crabtree’s haunting voice burns at the centre of the Paper Beat Scissors sound with an honesty and rawness that skirts discomfort. ... more

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