Come Home Demo

Lyrics and song by Yvonne Hercules
Producer/Sound Engineer : CNTR

No bounds 
Don't you know what's here is yours
Pace this ground until the soles of your feet are worn 
beyond the gaze of your eye
Lies a portion of land for you to explore

Thrown off by the wind 
The ones who say you'll never win
And you fall down 
The shots ring out

No end
Don't you know there's more to come 
Bear the weight of each others work for there's more to be done 
Beyond the gaze of your eye
There's a portion of land for you to explore

Thrown off by the wind
The ones who barricade us in
And we fall down 
The shots ring out

The shots ring out

Deaf to their sound
They rove 
Wandering round 
Treading on ground 
They've been shown

To explore
But we're thrown off by the wind 
The ones who say we'll never win
And we fall down
The shots ring out

The shots ring out...

Roving

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I filmed this cover in my living room during lockdown. I had a pair of psychedelic glasses from years ago so I cut them up, put them in front of my phone camera and filmed myself singing one of my favourite songs, Do I Wanna Know by The Arctic Monkeys.

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Do I Wanna Know (Cover)

Tu m'donnais la fièvre, me privant de sommeil pendant des jours
(you gave me the fever, taking away my sleep for days)
J'ai brisé les chaines, de mon âme pendant qu'on faisait l'amour
(I broke the chains of my soul when we were making love)
Tout est dans ma tête, qui de nous deux y laissera son souffle?
(everything is in my head, which one of us is going to give his last breathe?)

Je t'utilises pour me punir, je sais bien qu'on ne pourra jamais s'unir
(I use you to punish myself, I know too well we could never get together)
Alors je t'utilises pour me punir, loin de moi ce passé étrange
(so I use you to punish myself, far from this weird past)

It don't matter to me no more
If you walk past me so close
If I smell your perfume
If it sticks to my clothes
Do you still think I am beautiful?

Tu m'as pas protégé non non
(you didn't protect me no no)
Autour de moi c'est que le vide
(around me it's just emptiness)

Les souvenirs dansent, dans ma mémoire je réalise la chance de
(memories are dancing in my memory, I realise my chance)
M'endormir à tes côtés, tu sais personne n'a su te remplacer
(sleeping besides you, you know no one knows how to replace you)
Ah je t'imagines le faire, avec une autre que moi c'est comme l'enfer
(ah I imagine you are making it with somebody else, it's like hell to me)

Je t'utilises pour me punir, je sais bien qu'on ne pourra jamais s'unir
(I use you to punish myself, I know too well we could never get together)
Alors je t'utilises pour me punir, loin de moi ce passé étrange
(so I use you to punish myself, far from this weird past)

It don't matter to me no more
If you walk past me so close
If I smell your perfume
If it sticks to my clothes
Do you still think I am beautiful?

do you still think i am beautiful?

Recorded this demo version of a new song and even though the second part doesn't really make sense in some sentences, I found myself coming back to this version so many times. It was written and recorded in the heat of the moment and, fortunately, it captured the essence of it. This track is called Kissing Goodbye and is very close to my heart. Written with the genius that is Adriano Moncada. 

Lyrics: 

Hold on to me 
I know just how it feels 
To be alone 
God knows my heart was wrong

See I'll move on 
Only if you ain't strong
Enough to meet 
Me by the ocean tide 

Somebody tell me twice or now***
(I know what's on your mind) 
That I could hold on to the stars in your eyes 
Somebody tell me twice or now ***
That I can hold on to me what's on my mind***

Running down the aisle 
I tried my best to stay away from the edge of the line
No one else around 
I wish you could be mine (to be changed with "It's time to kiss goodbye")

*** god knows what this even means

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