Collaborating can be a lot of fun!  This is the third released collaboration with Mark Spruce (Original Spruce). 

It was an interesting process. Mark came up with the oven glove line, I sent him a few abandoned lyrics I had from a song before about bulbs in the dirt, and he then developed them into the full lyric about a relationship and moving on and added the melody. He then sent me the main guitar track and his excellent double tracked lead vocals. I then migrated those into GarageBand and then built up the full backing instrumental and added the backing vocals. A bit technical for me but we got there! He then made the beautiful video! 

https://youtu.be/gV-YH0RPLMw?si=3t7aMOlotfAcoYi3

I hope you enjoy it! 👍😃

Lyrics 
You need more than
Oven gloves
To touch the sun
And a 5 ton heart
Makes it hard to run

But hey there now,
Why the long face?
Get up off the floor
Get back in the race

There are plenty more
Bulbs in the dirt
There are plenty more
Leaves on the stem

He was the grub on your shrub
And it’s eating you up
And I know he was

Starting to bug you.

But who knows?
It flows both ways.
Sometimes you didn't call
And you left when
You should have stayed

I'm not judging
I'm just saying
Black and white
Can start greying

The seams
They start fraying
They slowly come apart

Until you're right back at the start
 
Time for both to move on
If it’s wrong then its wrong
It once was special
But now it is gone. 

Lyrics © M Spruce and J Whiteman

Moving On (Collaboration Mark Spruce and James Whiteman)

I’m a singer/songwriter from Guildford, Surrey, England. I started writing songs when I was 12 on a piano but really got into it when I started playing the guitar at 13/14. As with so many of us, career and family became the priority and I stopped writing over a 30 year period. Now I’ve retired, I’ve finally got time to write and record again and I love it! 
I play everything on the songs and record on my MacBook on GarageBand. Still learning! 
I hope you enjoy the songs and thank you in advance for any comments and feedback. 
James