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Like The Stars

from Forever, Instead EP by Dropout Dan

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Right then, this one is very secret! Back in Summer 2011 I wrote a song called “Your Eyes. The Stars” and was very naïve and quite silly, but the chorus’ were cool. I decided to scrap all the music, melodies and lyrics for it and go back to the drawing board for this E.P as I wanted it to finish on an absolute belter of a song.

It was the last song I wrote for this E.P and the lyrics that are on this version were written in July 2012 whilst I was drinking in Center Parcs in Thetford with my girlfriend at the time and a small group of friends. There are 3 sections to this song, and there isn’t really a chorus. It’s almost just one long narrative which jumps between 3 people I’ve had the pleasure/misfortune of knowing.

I haven’t told anyone who those people are or exactly what this song is about and I intend to keep it that way. I like to think that the words would work without music as some kind of Poem.

I am most proud of this song and think I’ve out done myself on it.
Recording the vocals for it was a bit of a struggle as I really tried hard not to yell on this E.P as I wanted my singing to be a lot more cleaner but still have the passion that I try to portray, and by the time we came round to doing this one, I was just shattered. I had been doing vocals for other songs pretty much all day and it was getting late and I was done. I was fed up. My voice wasn’t doing what I wanted it to do, and I just wanted to go home. But I had three great people with me: Lee, Adam and the amazing Matty Moon producing this E.P and they all gave me the encouragement I needed to really go for it, and I couldn’t be more happier with the final result if I tried.The strings that you hear on this were performed by Helen Koch who played the Cello on “Airs and Graces” off my last E.P “Do You Remember?”.

My favourite lyric is a fight between the second ‘chorus’ “So you took me down to the water’s edge and you threw me in, and never called again” and the last ‘chorus’ “But you’ll never change with those eyes like the stars”. Both those lines are directed at someone who I knew a long time ago, and the place where things between us began, and ironically ended.

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from Forever, Instead EP, released February 14, 2013

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