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Forever Is Too Long

by Mystery Spring

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Currents 04:00
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2.
Pale Blue 03:34
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3.
Brian 10:44
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4.
Everybody Is a Stranger These Days 03:36
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about

Over the last year or so I’ve been thinking a lot about my dad. More so than normal, I’m not really sure why. Brian (as my mum and others called him) or dad as I called him, passed away after a long illness in 2004.

It feels a very long time since we were together, and my memories of those times grow fainter and seem less reliable with every passing year. I feel like he’s a ghost now, and I’m just left with a strong sense of love and gratitude for the way he brought me up and the opportunity’s he gave me. We were always very close, and would spend a lot of time together chatting, reading the papers, arguing and laughing. He was kind, good company, very funny, a bit of a show off and had a strong moral compass.

I thought I would try to write a song for my dad, and a song for me. ‘Brian’ the third track on this EP is that song. I wanted it to evoke the mystery of people you love disappearing but never leaving you. How the pictures in your head are jumbled and sometimes eerie, but the broad feeling of love remains.

The four verses of the song were cut down from 12 verses, each one representing a memory of time me and my dad spent together. I realised as i wrote these verses that I am not always a reliable narrator of my own history!! The four verses left in the song are the ones i can remember best and that’s why I left them in.

All the songs on this EP are love songs of a sort, love either for people who are close, those who have gone, or those who are distant.

Huge thanks to all involved in this EP, we couldn’t do it without you - Marc Gillen.

credits

released October 11, 2019

Marc Gillen - vocals, electric & acoustic guitar, drum machine and keyboards.

Catherine Reding - vocals, bass, piano, organ and violin.

with

Alastair Popple - programming, effects, remixing & re-arrangements.

and

Stephen Benson - drums on 'Brian'.

All songs written by Marc Gillen.'Brian' arranged by Alastair Popple.

Recorded at home 2019.

Mixed and mastered by Alastair Popple at the Kitchen Sync.

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