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  <a href="/track-notes/blog/3450364/winter-wind">winter wind</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message">I was asked to sing something at a winter themed collection of&nbsp;readings last Christmas, and Sarah suggested I look at Shakespeare's song. There are a couple of choral versions of it online, which didn't really resonate, so I decided to write a melody myself. The words are wonderfully ironic - a very&nbsp;clever song about a&nbsp;friend or lover's&nbsp;betrayal - the chorus is so upbeat, while there's a real bitterness at it's heart. I was looking for something tonally like this for the album -&nbsp;and there it was. So&nbsp;I…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/track-notes/blog/3450364/winter-wind">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">I wrote a song in '81 after Lowell George died, quickly followed by Peter Sellers - completely different people -&nbsp;both heroes of mine.&nbsp;&nbsp;I wrote the song in one sitting and made a single recording of it on a cassette tape.&nbsp; I was so proud of it, I played it down the phone to my dear friend Jo Monro and she said it was the best thing I'd ever written.&nbsp; I lost the tape -&nbsp;left it in a hotel room in Dublin - didn't think about it again until recently when I found the lyrics in an old folder.&nbsp; I still remembered…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/track-notes/blog/3282601/another-hero">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <a href="/track-notes/blog/3221965/knock-me-down">knock me down</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message">Brian Scott, the driver on Merlin, gave me some lyrics one day and asked if I could put some music to them.&nbsp; They were about a man’s renewed relationship with his daughter – &nbsp;joyous and upbeat.&nbsp; I found a melody relatively easily and recorded it at Riverside as a surprise for Brian. &nbsp;When I decided to include it on the album, I felt that the original was a little too uptempo for the overall groove of the other tracks – a little too Steve Miller, The Joker; I wanted it more Neil Young, A Man Needs a Maid…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/track-notes/blog/3221965/knock-me-down">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">A while back, when Gus and I first talked about writing together, he sent me a bunch of ideas he’d recorded.&nbsp; World So Cold popped out as a great song – really catchy and cleverly constructed.&nbsp; He hummed and lala’d a lot of it, with the recurring phrase “world so cold” driving through it – it was about what a crap world it can be.&nbsp; I took it one stage further – when we are children, we can’t wait to grow up, and once we have, we realise, only too late, that it’s a cold, cold world and that there is no way…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/track-notes/blog/3211439/world-so-cold">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">When we recorded Music For Elevators, we had a recurring piano figure appear a few times throughout the album.&nbsp; George (Sarah) asked me to write some lyrics for one of these moments, towards the end of the CD – I wrote Staring at the Sun, and we recorded it, spoken,&nbsp;with massive amounts of reverb on it.<br>When I was putting songs together for the current album, I came across the lyrics – a love song with a bit of a difference – and decided to write a more cohesive melody to them.&nbsp; In putting the demo together…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/track-notes/blog/3194288/staring-at-the-sun">Read more</a></span></div>
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