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Trash-pop, guitar rock and melodic miscellany.
Not so much a band as a bloke with a guitar and a laptop, The Smivets deliver a genre-bending blend of pop, rock, punk, prog and many other monosyllables.
Song Info
Genre
Rock • Classic Rock
Charts
#817 today Peak #104
#113 in subgenre Peak #19
Author
Steve Smith
Rights
Steve Smith
Uploaded
October 31, 2024
Track Files
MP3
MP3 10.9 MB • 320 kbps • 4:45
Lossless
WAV 48.0 MB
Story behind the song
Strange lyric this - I never really understood what it meant. Again written in 2021, but I only got round to recording it 3 years later. During the recording process it dawned on me - it was written on the day we picked the dog up from the treatment centre, so it's about him. I genuinely didn't twig at the time. Mysterious business this songwriting.
Lyrics
First light in the wasted smoke of Broken Town Cold sweat regretful of the night gone by Torchlight because the old networks have broken down Not yet dissected by the pencil line And I wish that I'd found you earlier I might just have worked out a way to save you Hard news slams down like a hangman's trap Blared out from the silence of a telephone Hard truth will break you if you hold it back Dried out with the tears for those who might not come home And I wish that I'd found you earlier I might just have worked out a way to save you Yes I wish that I'd found you earlier I might just have worked out a way to save you To save you Red sky in the fading light of autumn time Burnt through the rat-snares of invading black Red eyes on the horizon for any haunting sign That the one you long for has made it back And there's a long list of things I thought I would say to you Ill-begotten words of fondness and memory And I thought I'd never say that I would pray for you All forgotten in the dawn when you came back to me And I hope you never get to know Just what it took to save you Yes I hope you never get to know Just what it took to save you To save you To save you To save you To save you
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steveweyman
Nov 24, 2024
Last track of the album and it’s a cracker ! Love the signature riff and powerful guitars . The whole album was performed produced and written brilliantly. You really are a prolific songwriter and musician . If I was looking for band members I would want you in it . Bravo Steveo !