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Onto The Bridge (demo)

from Demos From FAWM 2020 by TA Walker

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I start FAWM 2020, having basically not written any songs of note (pun not intended) since late 2018... hopefully this'll get me back in the saddle!

This time around, I'm deliberately not recording elaborate demos for FAWM - my aim is to get some new material written for a "proper" (no offence meant!) album project for this year, and I don't want to get too tied up in complicated productions at this stage. Besides, I don't feel I have the time these days...

I don't know how it took me as long as it has, to "discover" the work of Sufjan Stevens, but I suspect this song may betray that I've become a bit of a fan of late. "Carrie & Lowell" in particular is a big favourite album of mine at the moment, and you may hear echoes of it here.

This demo was recorded in my kitchen, on my TASCAM DP-006 "pocketstudio" - double-tracked vocal and baritone ukulele. I originally mixed it directly on the machine (via Grand Finale on my iPhone), but on 11th February - having learned a few things from mixing later demos - I did a new mix of the song on our Mac/Logic setup, and have posted it here as I feel it does the song/demo more justice.

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And so we left the earth
On a ladder to the air
The other side lost in the mist
Some follow shooting stars
To see them fall to earth

How long will we need
To process what we lost
And identify the same
When winners of the world
Act like they lost their souls

How quickly some forget
On the bridge of fifty days
Before they reach the other side
I find it easier to know
You found the gates more easily

How long were you here?
A frame or maybe two
In wide eternity
Painstakingly restored
How you were always meant to be

[bridge]
Where we bade farewell
To what was left behind
Like a coat required no more
The greatest gift to us
The lighting of the way

For when we leave the earth
On a ladder to the air
We have the steps you took before

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from Demos From FAWM 2020, released March 2, 2020
TA Walker - baritone ukuleles, vocals

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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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