From the recording Thank You for Last Time
Music: Varley / Read / Project Blackbird
Lyrics: Nagel
ALAN ROBERTS – electric guitar / EDDIE DUBLIN – drums / JAMIE VARLEY – bass guitar / JON READ – keyboards, trumpet / MING NAGEL – vocals
Recorded at Zephyr Studios (Leicester, UK) and Four Winds (Burrough on the Hill, UK).
Engineered by Dave Tidmarsh and Jon Read.
Produced and mixed by Dave Tidmarsh, Jon Read, and Project Blackbird.
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio (New York, NY, USA).
Single "cover" art taken from the video filmed by Jay Hillyer.
This is the first single from Project Blackbird's forthcoming (2024) album, True Names.
Lyrics
to everything that I adore
in this isolated world:
fates and furies, nights unfurled
time – fiction – time – fiction
mounds of graymoss in the fields
reptiles swelling to reveal
cracks of their tectonic scales
time – fiction – time – fiction
outer space must pale in comparison to this
other-worldly landscape of darkening bliss
I head to sands that are still belted by a sash of volcanic boulders
it’s strange to be back again - 20 years on and feeling much older
like looking in a mirror through a hazy lens, backwards over your shoulder
later we search for the cottage, on the coastline where I stayed
waters rich in alkaline
write a somnolent slow sweep
dreams tilt on the edge of sleep
time – fiction – time – fiction
each departure is a loss
each farewell is something gained
time stealing itself from time
time – fiction – time – fiction
outer space must pale in comparison to this
other-worldly landscape of darkening bliss
here it stands – Bakkasel, my age
I know that both our stories have changed
I walk past expanses of green and unused foundations
everything is dying or in a state of gestation
the corrugated slopes bleed into the sky like an impressionist painting