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New Video: ‘all good things will come to me ‘ :-)

Thought I’d let you know about the song and video ‘all good things will come to me.’

Tom Robinson at BBC 6Music played it last week, (thanks Tom!),

…so I thought I’d do a Video to keep it company.

It’s the opening track off the Album so kind of a sneak preview too.

I suppose the song sounds a bit like a mantra, which isn’t really something I do;

maybe the night I wrote it my subconscious was asking if I could make something happen I wasn’t really concentrating it just came out this way, anyhow

at the very least I got this song 🙂

These are the Words:

wanted to stand for something,

something as certain as a

stone

wanted a sure position,

sure as a king upon a

throne

wanted to see direction,

sure as a feather down the

stream,

I wanted to fast and free,

but only do it by degrees,

and everyday the signal shifts…

uh oh,

all good things will come to me

all good things will come to me

all good things will come to me.

wanted to stand for something,

more than a window and a

fly

wanted to be forgotten,

wanted to slip beneath the

tide

wanted a celebration,

wanted to sing forever

more

I wanted to be fleet of foot,

but in a way my feet got stuck,

and everyday the signals change…

uh oh

all good things will come to me

all good things will come to me

all good things will come to me.

Thanks to Pete Flood for the drums!

The footage was taken largely from an animation reel called “Thin Lear – Second Nature” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dNuT…

and to a lesser extent the Film “Double King” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_MSF…

with some other bits and pieces all of which was allowed by a Creative Commons Search.

Any how as usual the Video takes it to a slightly different place but I can live with it

– see you soon 🙂 Vince

track 4: can I just explain?

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nice photo hu? (thanks Jonathan)

After the optimism of the previous ‘wedding’ song comes this,

a marriage gone sour.

It’s not my most popular, but it is one of my best –  both the lyric and the melody hit the spot for me and Late Junction on Radio 3 played it last year

(they’re in the process of being cut by the way, so sign the petition here if like me you want a place for adventure and experiment on the radio).

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-late-junction

About the song though, I wanted to write something that used the things people really say as opposed to what gets said in songs. To that extent it’s kind of kitchen sink drama –  half a conversation, the male half, explaining  how his cheating was partly her fault – there is a level of irony 😉

I’m not talking about my marriage by the way (we’re still all good, honest!), but the fact this guy’s talking like an idiot doesn’t mean I don’t feel it when I sing it.

song and lyrics here!:   https://vincentburke.bandcamp.com/track/can-i-just-explain-2