Name: Men Have To Sing Love Songs by Nick Haynes UK
Duration: 2 min 51 s
Description: It is often easier to sing something than to say it.

You're right Nick - often easier to sing it. Keep on singing it!

THELEEGRIFFITHS LIVE WITH EDDIE READER ST THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL HALL

04 ITS A SHAME

It is often easier to sing something than to say it.

Men Have To Sing Love Songs

Through substance and through witchery
Is this all the young man sees?
Ignores her silenced plea 
To focus on her beauty

She's dead and useless now 
And her story's untold to the world
No longer sees the four grey walls, 
Or the shadows through a tiny door
Engraved in a wooden boat
With stone, is her name she wrote
But he just looks above her throat 
And her face is all he cares about

You might look but you don't see me 
I'm not this layer of skin 
And you might touch but you can't feel me
I'm not this layer of skin 
I'm stored with, stored within 
I'm stored within my skin

Not the first won’t be the last
He hasn’t noticed he’s looked past
That this sweet breath is now her last 
It’s a curse that mother nature cast
What a story what romance 
He loves her with just one glance 
Oh why is it this feeble stance 
Is seen throughout the greatest arts? 

You might look but you don't see me 
I'm not this layer of skin 
And you might touch but you can't feel me
I'm not this layer of skin 
I'm stored with, stored within 
I'm stored within my skin

This is our lot I’m told
A bleak future for me unfolds 
The blood running through my veins turns cold
I think of how I’ve already grown 

My skin has thickened and my face is still 
But I’m a woman and all I do is feel 
Oh where’s that child she was so pure 
I can’t find her in me anymore 
I Want to love but it’s just so hard 
To pull this façade apart 
And I miss her and it makes me cry 
And I see it in my mother’s eyes 

She sees me as when I was born 
And the love she holds has never worn 
Consistent and it’s never slack 
And the weight of it would break your back 
I’m not half the woman that she’s always been 
But I am her and she was me 
She feels my pain it’s hers she sees
And her knowing eyes watch over me 

You might look but you don't see me 
I'm not this layer of skin 
And you might touch but you can't feel me
I'm not this layer of skin 
I'm stored with, stored within 
I'm stored within my skin

I'm Not This Layer Of Skin

the origional home demo and my personal favourite as it was recorded in 1 night and was written in one night and this demo recorded at my little sisters house, captured the moment perfectly as it was coming off the back of a bad scenario.....and its one of those rare moments where you say what you are feeling in the moment...its about 6 years old now but still prefer it to the main recording. Done on a four track.

06 meet me half way acoustic

Get one on the go and get horizontal...
Discovery - the first of a some interweaving concept pieces with beats, keys n guitars
Video @ Facebook.com/JInflames/

Discovery

The Deep Dark

Tempus

Numb II

Bed and Breakfast

To Me To You In A Minor

The lead track from the Exotic Pets EP.
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You want to be exciting and adventurous, but at no lifestyle cost to you
So you collect exotic surrogates like animals in the zoo
Get every flavour of humanity the mainstream media feeds to you
But never follow down the rabbit hole...

They're just animals in the zoo.
Something interesting to view
But with a wall between them and you
'Cause you don't know what they might do
They're just animals in the zoo.
Something interesting to view
But with a wall between them and you
Because you fear what they might do
They're just animals in the zoo.

Collect a friend from every culture, condition, class and sexuality
But never in your inner circle, and no-where near your family
They're so cute when they act like people
With all the funny things they say and do
And look at you, so noble, kind and caring for the animals in the zoo.

Something interesting to view
But with a wall between them and you
'Cause you don't know what they might do
They're just animals in the zoo.
Something interesting to view
But with a wall between them and you
Because you fear what they might do
They're just animals in the zoo.

Patronise and smile politely
Hold forth on things you barely understand
You're really free and open minded, so long as nobody makes demands.
Let others suffer for identity, so you'll never have to
Then seize the flag of victory from the animals in the zoo.
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Something interesting to view
But with a wall between them and you
'Cause you don't know what they might do
They're just animals in the zoo.
Something interesting to view
But with a wall between them and you
Because you fear what they might do
They're just animals in the zoo.

Animals in the Zoo

For 2020 I decided to release a new song every month. I was going to start with a different one, but inspiration struck on January 4th and I began to write this song. I then thought: wouldn't it be cool to write, record and release a song all in one month - easily being the quickest turnaround from inception to completion of any song I've ever written or recorded. 

The song is loosely based on a new found love I have for surfing, but how metaphorically surfing has a lot of lessons that relate to life; I am obsessed with the energy surfers have (particularly Jamie O'Brien!) and the energy I felt watching his videos spilled out into this song. 

That's why it's the perfect song to kick start of this new found wave of creativity...I just hope I can keep moving and don't wipe out...like a gnarly session at Pipe... ;-) 

I did everything you hear here; the amazing artwork is by local multi talented human being Catherine Eliza Tarrant. 

I loved making this song; hopefully you'll like it too!! :-D x

Men Have To Sing Love Songs

Nick Haynes UK

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