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If I'd Have Listened

from Broadcast The Secret Verse by Chris Cleverley

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If I’d have listened back then.
If I’d have listened back then.
How different would life be for so many people
If I’d have listened to myself back then.

I’d never have heard the plaintive call of the corncrake,
Id never have walked the banks of the Seine.
I’d have died so many years before my time
If I’d have listened to myself back then.

O show me the beauty of all I’d have missed
If I’d have listened to myself back then.

I’d never have felt the shimmering cool sensation
If the pressure of your skin on my skin.
I’d never have mapped the point of your constellation
To trace the image of your soul within.

O show me the beauty of all I’d have missed
If I’d have listened to myself back then.

I’d never have reaped the truth of that cold, hard lesson
And given myself the freedom to say
I’d have died without giving myself the chance
To have died within your arms one day.

O show me the beauty of all I’d have missed
If I’d have listened to myself back then.

So if I’m back down there.
When I’m down there again,
I’ll cling to the beauty of all I’d have missed
If I’d have listened to myself back then.

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from Broadcast The Secret Verse, released November 4, 2022
Chris Cleverley - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Synths
John Patrick Ellliot - Piano, Programming, Synths, Bass
Rob Pemberton - Drums
Lukas Drinkwater - Bass
Tobias Ben Jacob - Vocals
Kathy Pilkinton - Vocals
Katie Whitehouse - Vocals
Graham Coe - Cello

Engineered, produced and mixed by John Patrick Elliott

Mastered by Tim Debney at Fluid Mastering

Artwork by Martin D Hyde

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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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