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My 14th and final song submission for FAWM 2014… well, in a way, I suppose it comes “full circle”. I started with a Garageband-produced demo infused with the gloom of a wet and stormy winter… and finish with a Garageband-produced demo suggesting the onset of spring!

This one's a bit "hippy" by my standards (well, that's what happens when I listen to a lot of Jack Johnson because my daughter thinks he's great as well ;-) ), but I make no apologies! The lyrics came out a bit "convoluted", which might also be Jack's influence...

It's a Garageband/iPhone production throughout - the drum-machine loop comes from FunkBox, with electric piano and bass via Garageband's "smart instruments" (the first three were programmed during my lunch break). Two electric guitars (Ministar Testar), egg-shaker and two vocals were overdubbed when I got home.

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I’m out in the garden, fixing the fence
It’s not looked the same since the weekend, when
The gales left it hanging
Got woke by the banging and creaking and cracking
But somehow the panel still stands

I wonder the fence may be stubborn like me
It refuses to lie down, like our cherry tree
Which bends with the breeze
Just stay standing, please - we will it to live
And it listens and reaches for sun

[chorus]
And soon leaves will appear
The quickening of the year
Will speed us all through spring to summertime
Our garden has lived it all
Through winter rain and grey and squall
To wake and stretch and smile when skies look fine

The waters of winter left moss on the lawn
The herbs start to grow back; the rosebush got torn
Part-way off the trellis
So if it could tell us what it wanted most
I’d help it get back up again

And off in the woods, the blackbirds all sing
Out of reach of the cats, who listen and think
Of the dinner they’re missing
Whilst spring is now springing
Around them - I’ve made up my mind
That I won’t miss a thing

And soon leaves will appear...

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from Conditions Apply: Demos From FAWM 2014, released March 4, 2014
Composed and performed by TA Walker

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TA Walker UK

Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter, often with "electronica", "lo-fi" and "prog" inclinations.

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