Fantastic arrangement. All perfectly put together but the biggest tickle up for me was the second chorus. The distorted organ into the two vocal parts and then at 1.15 my fave, the clean, flat piano stabs back into the organ. But a very close second, comes the bug bonkers piano solo aided by its accomplice that distorted organ. Just brilliant. And the lyrics are truely wonderful.

very clever and quirky little song.  love every aspect of it.  those vocals really grabbed me.   beautiful.  

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So chalk up the minutes comparing the tickets we won in these coastal arcades
You're like some distant murmur that carries me further away from the rousing parades

When the sun is sinking into the floor the threads unwind
The questions are swimming out my mind so slow

Well I've seen people sitting with their teeth all gritted and waiting the whole evening long
Slump with a sigh after most passing by 'cause they just want to talk to someone

There's a warm wind coming, marching along with a big brass band
I'm waving an outstretched aching hand, so slow

Well some spend their time piling bricks up and climbing like we get out of here alive
We search for a meaning before disappearing and hope that our memories survive

I don't know what's coming to sweep up the rug from where I'm stood
And probably wouldn't if I could, oh no

I've been dripping with sweat throwing long silhouettes and not really going far at all
Like feigning a jog with a wild pack of dogs that are slavering after a ball

Well I don't mind losing, only need one to hold onto
'Cause chasing a number just won't do, oh no

Away From The Rousing Parades (Single)

Away From The Rousing Parades

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Evidence | SHIELDS

Where’s the evidence? Where’s the evidence?
Where’s the evidence? Show me the evidence
Where’s the evidence? Where’s the evidence?
Where’s the evidence? Show me the evidence

I think it’s maybe time I made a move 
I’m building a case I just need the proof
Can’t fight this feeling yes I think I know
It’s no good feeling I have to go

Where’s the evidence? Where’s the evidence?
Where’s the evidence? Show me the evidence
Where’s the evidence? Where’s the evidence?
Where’s the evidence? Show me the evidence

Every day I think I will work it out
Something concrete, something that I can shout
Tearing me to pieces, this hunch I have
Maybe one day we can work it out

Where’s the evidence? Where’s the evidence?
Where’s the evidence? Show me the evidence
Where’s the evidence? Where’s the evidence?
Where’s the evidence? Show me the evidence

I don’t believe a word you sound absurd 
I don’t believe a word you sound absurd

No one will go first, this feeling’s the worst
Waiting it out, building it up, feeding itself
No one will go first, this feeling’s the worst

You go, I go, I go, you go

You can tell me anything you want 
It’s time now to show me the truth

No one will go first, this feeling’s the worst
Waiting it out, building it up, feeding itself

Where’s the evidence? Where’s the evidence?
Where’s the evidence? Show me the evidence
Where’s the evidence? Where’s the evidence?
Where’s the evidence? Show me the evidence

I don’t believe a word you sound absurd 
I don’t believe a word you sound absurd

Etemenanki (EP)

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I Already Know | SHIELDS

I stop to look at myself in the mirror 
But I’m afraid to stare too long 
In case there’s something I don’t recognize 

Hidden in my eyes
Trying to escape 
It’s wearing me out
Shouldn’t have let it get close enough 
I need you now

Oh am I too late to take it back? Would never last
Don’t just take my word for it there’ll be no second chance

You don’t have to pretend you were right all along
Carry it around like a heavy shroud
A darkening cloud

Hidden in your eyes 
Trying to escape 
Is it wearing you out
Shouldn’t have let it get close enough 
I need you now 

Oh am I too late to take it back? Would never last 
Don’t just take my word for it there’ll be no second chance 

It’s all I’m asking just to hear me, hear me out
There’s something missing that we need to turn around

Oh am I too late to take it back? Would never last
Don’t just take my word for it there’ll be no second chance

Etemenanki EP

I Already Know

CIRCUITS

Three score and ten moonlights made of parts
Non-human reactions make me start

I’m circuits
Wire bones
And no-one knows

Take my brain, computerise my heart (Take me a little bit, further)
Are my thoughts designed, or my own sparks?

I’m circuits
Wire bones
And no-one knows

Seventy days without water
Seventy days without water
Seventy days without water through me

Circuits

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WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM? | Fever Days

Let’s talk about money 
It doesn't grow on trees
But I'm still waiting for a seed to plant to gain economy

Let’s talk about nothing
‘cos that’s all you've got to say
And I know you want me gone, but I'm staying either way

So maybe I'll see you at the show
The suspense is killing me 
It’s like a TV episode

It never started but I guess that it’s already over
I don't think I'm thinking straight 
I'll sort it out when I am sober

(Let’s try and work this out
I'll come around your house
I'd rather do this now
Try and figure out)

Why are you looking at me? (What’s your problem?)

I always see you take a glimpse 
You know it’s kinda funny
Try and take control of me but I ain’t no crash test dummy

I know I've got a recognisable face
But the person that you're thinking of 
I'm sorry it’s not the case

I could be off my head 
I could be hanging with Chris
Your words are razor sharp I think I need reviving from this

I know you didn't see the time that I was hanging with Mary
Can’t see what’s going on behind your back
Ain’t that scary?

Why are you looking at me? (What’s your problem?)
Why are you looking at me? (What’s your problem?)

What's Your Problem? (Single)

What's Your Problem?

Late Night Love Songs | Sundile

Another daytime passes me by
Another day of regrets
Loneliness calls, and then you do
And I go quietly to bed

In every low-light, every slow night
I sing to you
Every heartbreak, and every cliché
I bring to you

Won’t you love my late-night love songs?
Won’t you let me in?
You might hate the man I’ve become
Baby you know I can’t win

In the evening it gets me feeling
And I’m so alive
A taut line hitch in my stomach pits
Another bait on the line

It’s you that hits me
Right in the tambourine
It’s true, it beats me
It’s not what I thought it’d be

Won’t you love my late-night love songs?
Won’t you let me in?
You might hate the man I’ve become
Baby you know I can’t win

As the sun goes down so do I
As the son lays down to close his eyes
He dreams of lullabies

Late Night Love Songs (Single)

Late Night Love Songs

GRACE GILLESPIE - Hoppers

Once for the waking and twice for the taking
I see we’ve opened up the third bottle now
Four broken tiles on the rooftop overlooked
And by the fifth bend I knew I had been misunderstood
 
So bye bye, baby, bye bye
I am just a fly, I’ll be buzzing ‘til I die
Bye bye, baby, bye bye
You are just a hopper, you are too afraid to fly
 
But I thought you were my angel
I thought you were my angel
In my half-light half-night eyes
We live by the same lies
 
Six times a lady in my seventh day dress
I see eight flames flicker on the cool chimney breast
Nine o’clock sharp I hear the smash of broken glass
And pick the ten shards sticking from my half-warm heart
 
So bye bye, baby, bye bye
I am just a fly, I’ll be buzzing ‘til I die
Bye bye, baby, bye bye
You are just a hopper, you are too afraid to fly

But I thought you were a devil
I thought you were a devil
In my half-light half-night eyes
We live by the same lies
 
So bye bye, baby, bye bye
I am just a fly, I’ll be buzzing ‘til I die
Bye bye, baby, bye bye
You are just a hopper, you are too afraid to fly

But I thought you were my angel
I thought you were my angel
In my half-light half-night eyes
We live by the same lies

© 2020 Kaleidoscope

Hoppers

GRACE GILLESPIE - Empty In The Capital

It is what it is
Not what it ought to be
Not exactly what you wanted
Not exactly what you need
But I am comfortable with knowing
That our consciousness is growing
Learning to destroy ourselves
And blame it on something else

It is what it is
Not what it used to be
Not the past and not the future
Something in-between
But I am comfortable with riding 
On the moving parts of time
Like I am comfortable looking
At the London skyline

But I am not myself today
What is it I’m doing?
What was it I wanted to say?
Yes I am grateful for the day
Just restless in the rationale
Empty in the Capital

It is what we are
Not what we choose to be
Cannot capture just the essence
Cannot pragmatise our presence
But we’re comfortable with living
While some other eyes are stinging
Like we’re comfortable with turning
Our faces to the sky

But I am not myself today
What is it I’m doing?
What was it I needed to say?
Yes I am grateful for the day
Just restless in the rationale
Empty in the Capital

Ahhh not we are not ourselves today
What is it we’re doing?
What was it we wanted to say?
Are we ungrateful for the day?
Just restless in the rationale
Empty in the Capital

© 2020 Kaleidoscope

Empty In The Capital

GRACE GILLESPIE - The Child

Don’t close your eyes
I’m dying to meet you
Let time decide
I’m ready now to greet you
 
And I know I must be
Strong and sure and safe and sound and wild
For the child
For the child in me
 
Reveal in me
The mastery I am missing
 And unearth this gold
What diamonds? What difference?
 
And I know I must be
Strong and sure and safe and sound and wild
For the child
For the child in me

© 2020 Kaleidoscope

The Child

London based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

Please drop me a line at: gracegillespiemusic@gmail.co.uk
Photos by Poppy Marriott

Hoppers

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