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A Voice For Those Who Don't Have One

from We Sat Back and Watched it Unfold by Chris Cleverley

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lyrics

The bed sheets don’t look as though they’re sitting at all right.
I must have be thrashing around in the night.
To tell you the truth, friends, I’ve been losing the fight.
Maybe it’s time I told you so.
I didn’t mean to be closed off, I didn’t mean to seem cold.
I didn’t mean to so randomly ask you to hold me.
I didn’t mean to. I DIDN’T MEAN TO. You’re like a track on repeat,
Until you ‘have the good grace lad to just get back on your feet’.

C’mon kid, C’mon kid it’s staring at you.
Take the meds kid. Send those things coursing right through you.
What more were you expecting your own defences to do?
You need strength man and right now you have none.
So let this be a voice then for those who don’t have one.

I said “I’ve got this song I’d like your opinion on mother.
I’ll warn you though it’s different, in a way, from the other ones.”
So she took a detailed listen and she called it in six simple words
When she said “my boy. What happened? My boy”.

C’mon kid, C’mon kid it’s staring at you.
Take the meds kid. Send those things coursing right through you.
What more were you expecting your own defences to do?
You need strength man and right now you have none.
So let this be a voice then for those who don’t have one.

Do you believe in a Lord in the sky,
Who carries us over and watches us by?
Why then do I wake up with this fear on my chest,
Sick on my breath and these tears in my eyes?

C’mon kid, C’mon kid it’s staring at you.
Take the meds kid. Swallow them deep down into you.
What more were you expecting your own defences to do?
You need strength man and right now you have none.
So let this be a voice then - PLEASE -for those who don’t have one.

credits

from We Sat Back and Watched it Unfold, released October 11, 2019
Produced by Sam Kelly with Chris Cleverley.
Mixed by Graham Coe and Sam Kelly at Cube Recording, Cornwall.
Mastered by Josh Clark at Get Real Audio.

Chris Cleverley - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Evan Carson - Drums
Lukas Drinkwater - Bass
Jamie Francis - Electric Guitar
Kim Lowings - Backing Vocals
Kathy Pilkinton - Backing Vocals
Katie Stevens - Clarinet
Pete Nickless - Hammond Organ

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Chris Cleverley was born under a solstice moon, in an aura of honeysuckle mysticism. He is among a new wave of pioneering artists carving an uncharted path through the UK acoustic landscape. Inspired by the Lo-FI Indie greats Elliott Smith & Sufjan Stevens, his ambient Dream-Folk songwriting pushes the boundaries and shatters the expectations of 21st Century acoustic music. ... more

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