wrote this song from the perspective of joel in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind :) new favorite movie

lyrics:

i'm watching everything go sideways
and i can't do a thing to make it stop
i won't remember this tomorrow
but i'll be sad when i wake up

i wish we were back in your apartment
i want you to sing me to sleep
i'll forget my wallet so i'll have to come back
and you won't forget me

thought it was only fair
but i swear i didn't think it through this far
you chose this first
so i didn't think it'd hit me quite this hard
i don't want to see this part

i'm watching everything go sideways
feels like someone's messing with my head
i'm not prepared to never know you again
i'm sorry, can we stop this instead?

thought it was only fair
but i swear i didn't think it through this far
you chose this first
so i didn't think it'd hit me quite this hard
i don't want to see this part

when this is over
i'll never know that
i ever missed you at all
i'll be a stranger and
you will be kissing somebody
that i don't know
i'll take the train to the beach
and i'll sit on the sand
and i'll never know
i had a life before this
i don't want this

thought it was only fair
but i swear i didn't think it through this far
you chose this first
so i didn't think it'd hit me quite this hard
i don't want to see this part

clementine (demo)

Progressive/Trance Mix

A little clip of a poem written and read by poet Alan Gillis, which I accompanied during my NAVIGATOR Residency in The Crescent, Belfast

The Response

On a day like today you might lift
your eyes to heaven, but better
to lower them, contemplate the yarrow,
the dog daisy, the angel flower,
woundwort, mother of thousands, wild pepper, goose tongue, snake’s grass — better to narrow your focus upon the thousand-leaved clover.
In the wink of an eye all you know drifts away but who benefits from sorrow?
The earth still compels you weave a lover’s light flow, although older, sadder:
‘I will pick the smooth yarrow that my lips may be warmer, that my voice may be gladder.’

Alan Gillis, 2017

The Response By Alan Gillis

In October's episode we visit a 'ghost' island, explore the history of trick or treating, and hunt for mushrooms and dryads in the woods. Hedgehogs and frogs are preparing for their winter sleeps, and Gwilym sings 'Y wasgod goch', the red waistcoat - the spookiest song he knows.

'As the Season Turns' is a podcast created by Ffern in collaboration with the nature writer and author of the Seasonal Almanac, Lia Leendertz. Lia is joined by novelist Zoe Gilbert, composer and sound recordist Alice Boyd and folk musician Gwilym Bowen Rhys. Geoff Bird produces and Catriona Bolt is Ffern's in-house researcher. Each episode, released on the first of every month, is a guide to what to look out for in the month ahead - from the sky above to the land below. Ffern is an organic fragrance maker based in Somerset. You can learn more about Ffern's seasonal eau de parfum at ffern.co

October 23

My Love Is A Well

"Just Another Day" is an ode to the ordinary. Intrigued by humanity and inspired by observation, Molly wrote the song while living in Galway.

LYRICS:

Kitchen boys with cigarettes
Standing outside
Kitchen boys
With their aprons untied

And oh, how close
What you need the most
Is just a breath away
Just another day
It's just another day

Market stalls and cathedral walls
Trading cash in hand
Bread and wine
The holy and the damned

And oh, how is it so?
What you think you know
Is just a breath away
Just another day
It's just another day

Silver sunlight
Floods the streets white
Blinding
The dusky twilight
Spark in your eyes
Finding

You don't have to carry it all
You don't have to carry it at all
Let it fall away
It's just another day

CREDITS:

Just Another Day

Preview! Out May 16 on all platforms.
A pushback against the desire to be 'cool', unopinionated, passionless. You are prisoners of your own ambivalence! 

Ambivalence

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Floyd Collins (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Lucky

Existential dread and a search for meaning with a little bit of flute, clarinet, tin whistle and belief in love 💛

Frances Wilde - Yellow Door

From Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.'
Composed by Danny Elfman. 

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