Name: We Used To Go Raving by Stephen McLaren
Duration: 4 min 12 s
Description: Debut single w/video to be released on digital download early 2017.

like that the vocal feels far away. Like the whole thing man

Like the slightly disembodied feel of the vocal - really good!

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Debut single w/video to be released on digital download early 2017.

We Used To Go Raving

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Katie in you I see someone I recognize
you're cutting yourself and shoplifting wine
and I can't help but feel like i want to get close to you 
to tell you that every things going to be fine
but my darling that would be a lie
cause we're all going to die

I'm not who I thought I would be at age sixteen
I'm 26 now and the future still makes me dizzy
I'm still beating myself up over the petty stuff 
and for a week after a one night stand I'm convinced I'm in love
I worry that the internet is making me stupid
that the art that I make is trite and derivative
some nights I wake up feeling so paralyzed and useless
I can't convince myself that love is the purpose
of this collapsing universe

But I've cut down on the cigarettes at least
and I've learned to take my own bullshit
far less seriously
I'm trying to stop waiting for my life to be approved by
by some external entity that's somehow more real than me
meditating helps except when it doesn't 
and when it doesn't time still tows me along in it's current
and the rough patches smooth out and get rough again
but I try to remember how incredible it is 
that it's even possible to feel anything

I love my sister so much that it hurts
and my friends are amazing I'd tell them all if i could
I'm getting to grips with how pointless it is
to do things just because I think they're expected
or in accordance with the life I planned out 
when I believed to be interesting I had to destroy myself
And it's just as Ira Glass says
Great stories happen to those that can tell them
Cause a story is a great and beautiful thing
they help us communicate and give our lives meaning
but I think first and foremost it's important to recall
our experiences are legitimate simply by happening at all

So Katie I know your picking through the rubble of reasoning
for some diamond of truth that will end all your guessing
but you're not going to find it in the books that you read
or verse set in stone or some perfect geometry
not even if the author wrote in their own blood on rat skin 
in prison before perishing in some unspeakable fashion
but before you let your spirit be broken 
maybe there's fun to be had in the searching
It seems we're all struggling most of the time
and in that knowledge the only truth I can find
is in the act of being kind

Katie

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The 4th and last single release from the debut album, "We Used To Go Raving" (out now on digital and CD format on Errant Media). Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJSd8Jo6Js0&feature=youtu.be - directed by Jordan Yorkston.

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Piano-led dream-pop. Based in Edinburgh, but will play anywhere. Get in touch:

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We Used To Go Raving

Stephen McLaren

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