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| Title: |
Love Lies Naked |
| Artist: |
Chid Manning
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| Description: |
Emotions personified
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| Notes: |
This one started life years ago and it's only since I have been able to create multi-track multi-instrument recordings on the PC that I have been able to do it any justice. Can you imagine trying to record that song using just a nylon-stringed acouostic guitar and a cassette recorder?
It is worth mentioning that I had planned to fade the end - not very original but I had not other idea. However, as I was recording the vocal and launching into another rendition of the chorus at the end, my mother walked into my room and started talking to me (I was divorced and living-with at the time). I obviously cut the recording there but realised that with the vocal effects and the harmony it made for quite a nice sound at the end.
The lyrics (as mine always tend to do) have changed over time but the essence of the song has always been the same - the personification of emotions.
The vocal effects are mostly used to cover the fact that the vocal track is flat and noisy due to poor equipment. Still, I am satisfied with the final result. One day, when I win the lottery, I will build my own studio - ten years later, I might have learned what some of the buttons and knobs are for
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| Lyrics: |
Come home from work
Let myself in
Nobody here
I didn't think that there would be
Why should she
She's left me
I'm alone again
Sit on the floor
Head in my hands
Too proud to cry
I still don't know why she's gone now
Go on now
Explain how you feel again
While love lies naked on the floor
And loneliness sits staring out of the window
While anger is kicking in my door
You'll find me here
Sitting with fear
Alone in the corner of an empty room
Crawl into bed
Must get some sleep
Too tired to think
Too tired for even pretending
It's ending
No mending
It's over
Sleep must come soon
Already dark
Nightime is here
She should be right here beside me
To guide me
To hold me
And tell me everything's all right
While love lies naked on the floor
And loneliness sits staring out of the window
While anger is kicking in my door
You'll find me here
Sitting with fear
Alone in the corner of an empty room
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