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The songs I wrote and recorded from my home studio in the early pandemic days - beginning with 'Its The End Of The World (Again)' - and culminating with a brand new unreleased single - are getting a second life starting this Friday Aug 7, with release on Flatcar Records/Fontana North - remixed by Kenneth Roy Meehan.
These songs feel like a time capsule for that heady dreamscape, and were a life-raft to me as I fumbled about, trying to find new bearings (along with everyone else in the world). Some of the songs are silly disco-escapism, some are more somber and serious. With each of them my goal was just to be present, truthful and vulnerable - to reach inside the creative impulse without lingering too much in perfectionism; or dwelling on the way I would have done things 'before'.
I played and recorded all the parts myself (centred around Omnichord which was new to me) even though other people could have played them better. I said 'yes, and' to myself again and again, and it filled me with enthusiasm for what I'm capable of, and for what creative expression can do for the human condition. As silly as it might sound, it gave me comfort to think that if I can rise to this occasion, I can probably handle even greater challenges as they (will surely) come.
lyrics
The end of the world is coming again
Dear ones it’s nearly here
Fate has sealed our coffers bare there’s
Nothing left to fear
Each dystopian movie scene
I thought was fictionalized
Became reality, foreseen
Covid, we’re paralyzed
Baby, meet me at the water’s edge
Baby, take a chance
Take my germy hand
I’m looking for a lover
Looking for a lover
I’m looking for a lover
It’s the end of the world, again
Empty are the streets now
The schools and the stores and bars
Empty too my bedroom
Underneath the stars
But I won’t bend to prophesy
I’ll write my end to end
And fear only fear itself though
I admit I pretend (I pretend, I pretend)
Baby, meet me at the water’s edge
Baby, take a chance
Take my germy hand
I’m looking for a lover
Looking for a lover
I’m looking for a lover
It’s the end of the world, again
It’s the end, it’s the end…again
credits
released August 6, 2020
Written, Performed, Recorded by Colleen Brown
Mixed and Mastered by Kenneth Roy Meehan
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