i'm so happy to hear something about you and yours.  thank you

I'm really digging the nastalgic vibes this track gives off. Keep grinding.

Wide Awake has entered the @re-ex Pop/Rock chart at no.10 - such expressive piano playing! Great arrangement too, nice work :)

Took me back to music my mom had me listening to when I was younger. Very nostalgic feeling from it

Perfect combo of instruments for folk, even the voice fits.  Good lyrics, sweet song.

Hasta ahora este track es mi favorito :)!

The old Joanna sound lovely. Your fab voice sounds equally at home with guitar or piano. Wonderful song.

First line: 'I slept through a hurricane', is true. Posting now from New York, as Henri sails past and the city is bathed in tropical rain... and it's also where I first recorded the piano part, so it seems appropriate. A friend (who I am also visiting tonight) once  told me how he preferred songs that were written on piano to those on guitar. Since 100% of my songs on Soundcloud are guitar based, he inspired me to switch for this one. Serendipity.


WIDE AWAKE

i slept through a hurricane
i didn't feel the driving rain
i slumbered under thunder storms
i never heard those beating drums
but i won’t sleep tonight
I’m wide awake
no i won’t sleep tonight
i’m wide awake
and wide awake is all i wanted…

sleepwalking in the park
through the daylight into the dark
looking alive but falling apart
lost my way when I lost my heart
so i can’t sleep with you
I’m wide awake
no i can’t sleep with you
i’m wide awake
and wide awake is all i wanted…

you found me in this restless state
took me through that open gate
now every touch is what it seems
and all the world’s a fading dream
‘now i will sleep tonight
like i never slept
now i will sleep tonight
like i never slept before
now i will sleep with you
like i never have, now
I will sleep with you…
like i never slept 
like i never slept before…

Wide Awake

A ginnel is a passageway between red brick terraced houses, specifically in Yorkshire, where I grew up. The ones near where I lived had peculiar sound reflections that always fascinated me when I was little. Macalla is Irish Gaelic for echo, in a nod to my Irish roots…

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