Name: Observations For Dennis by Corkivell
Duration: 2 min 4 s
Description: Dennis

Cranky the Crane is a form of transport. We do like the Cranky theme. This song is about an engine featured in the podcast 'Thomas and Friends Storytime.' Please listen right now.

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Cranky The Crane

Beat Route

I interviewed Sufjan on 27 October, 2004 prior to his gig at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Trinity College, Dublin. Seven Swans was just out and in this old interview for Songs To Learn And Sing on 103.2 Dublin City FM. Sufjan chats about recording the album with Daniel Smith of The Danielson Famile. 
More information here: https://www.paulmcdermott.ie/blog/sufjan-stevens-interview
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Songs to Learn and Sing

From the Archives - Sufjan Stevens Interview (2004)

Hope Is what you can see when you can see further than what you can see

Hope is what you can see when you can see further than what you can see

organ, piano, electric piano, singing, more singing 

words and music by hugh nankivell - bristol november 2023

Hope

With special thanks to Freya Nankivell (vocals), Kieran Cheung (bass) and Cormac Thomas (drums) for their all-round brilliance.

Some words:

We’ve got a Load of Beers (Nankivell/Fisher)

We’ve got a load of beers – we’re still in profit
We’ve got a load of love – or do I mean patience?
Well, both of us like a drink

We’ve got a load of friends – they loved the evening 
We’ve got a load of stuff – like Esther’s cardie
The girl will be tickled pink 

Oh and as we talk about
Who said what and who kissed whom
It feels like it’s a re-enactment
Of someone else’s favourite night

My party, your party, loving the mess
Let’s drink up an evening of merry excess

We’ve got a load of profit – we’re still in beers
We’ve got a load of patience – or do I mean love?
Well, both of us like a drink

We’ve got a load of damage – stains on the carpet
We’ve got a load of questions – the unfinished stories
The tales with a missing link

Oh and how we laugh about
That Feist song called Mushaboom
Which Esther played us eight times straight 
Each time increasing her look of delight

My party, your party, loving the mess
Let’s drink up an evening of merry excess

Lauren and Jack thought they
Wouldn’t know anyone
Here
Esther was worried 
That I wasn’t going to be
Nice
Keira believed
Nobody would like her new
Hair
All wrong, all wrong, all delightfully wrong
All wrong, all wrong, all delightfully wrong

My party, your party, loving the mess

We've Got a Load of Beers

Many thanks to the wonderful Cormac Thomas (drums) and Kieran Cheung (bass).

How is Lynn doing? (Nankivell/Fisher)

How is Lynn doing?
Does she still know the shape of you?
Does she see in your silhouette
The man she knew
Would love her true
When first you met?

How is Lynn doing?
Does she savour the taste of you?
Can she still hear the melody
That charmed you both
Disarmed you both
Repeatedly?

Is it callous to say
We all just want it to be over
When we all just want it to be over,
When we all just want it put right?

Is it callous to say
We have loved her enough
When we have loved her enough
To long for a little respite?

How is Lynn doing?
Has she still got the measure of you?
Is she drawn to the body heat
That gave her strength
And then at length
Made you complete?

How is Lynn doing?
Does she relish the touch of skin?
Can she breathe in the smell
That sharpened her
Enheartened her
And held its spell?

Is it callous to say (callous to say)
We all just want it to be over (We all just want it to be over)
When we all just want it to be over,
When we all just want it put right?

Is it callous to say (callous to say)
We have loved her enough 
(loved her enough)
When we have loved her enough
To long for a little respite?

And how are you
Not just Lynn?
Your elbows firm on the table
Your hands held tight in a fist
This is how you normally arm wrestle
But there is no contest to win
How are you 
Not just Lynn?
How are you
Not just Lynn?

Is it callous to say
We all just want it to be over
When we all just want it to be over,
When we all just want it put right?

Is it callous to say
We have loved her enough
When we have loved her enough
To long for a little respite?

How is Lynn Doing?

Many thanks to the fabulous Cormac Thomas (drums) and Kieran Cheung (bass).

It Was Two Minutes 21, Actually

It was two minutes 21, actually
One – four – one
[one] minute I was just standing there
One – four – [one]
The next I was standing with you
The 21 seconds remaining
Flew by
Flew by

How much to do today?
Nothing and everything
How much to do today?
Oh, I'll just fill it with you

It was two minutes 21, actually
One – four – one
[one] in a million we'd both be there
One – four – one
[one] in a billion we’d fall¬–
The 21 seconds remaining
Flew by
Flew by

How much to do today?
Nothing and everything
How much to do today?
Oh, you'll just fill it with me

The numbers don't add up
So how is this possible?
Numbers can't help us
And why should they try?

How much to do today?
Nothing and everything
How much to do today?
Oh, we'll just fill it with us

One – four – one
One – four – one
One – four – one
One – four – one

It Was Two Minutes 21 Actually

Observations For Dennis

Egret, seagull, portkchop, mosquito, hedgehog.
There were 4 in the bed and the pork-chop said. Rollover jackpot.

Gee Gee Double You Ex Why Zed

Information on Strike A Light and what we're all about!

About Strike A Light

Track 9 from 'Da Road' in it's final format as part of the National Theatre of Scotland 'Ignition' project. Featuring Andy Ross, Norman Willmore, Hayden Hook and Steve Sowden. This the ninth part of the journey south down from the furthest north bit of road in the UK, to the southernmost tip of Shetland. You can see which track to play as it is written on the bus-stops! Recorded at the Mareel Lerwick and in Paignton. Thanks to Jonathan Ritch and Steve Sowden. Composed by Hugh Nankivell and arranged and produced by The Shared Inventions (HN and SS).

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Corkivell is Cormac (from Scotland) and Nankivell (from England). They write many songs by emailing each other ideas. We hope you like our songs.

Observations For Dennis

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