From the recording Listen
Music: Roberts / Read / Project Blackbird
Lyrics: Nagel
ALAN ROBERTS – electric guitar / EDDIE DUBLIN – drums / JAMIE VARLEY – backing vocals, keyboards / JON READ – backing vocals, double bass, percussion / 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 is a detail taken from True Names by Chloë Bates, designed by Lydia Wood.
This is the third single from Project Blackbird's forthcoming (2024) album, True Names.
Lyrics
sun and shadow make a double
I’m the shadow, you’re the sun - it’s a conversation
dance back when we stumble
skip a beat, make our peace, find a double in the one
sun’s a hand on a wet dress
a warm chill shiver taking wing upon my spine
what do you feel when you undress?
who decides when we’re out of time?
listen
we’re falling into clouds of gold
drowning
deep in sky’s the limit hope
water dapples in the sunlight
like a herd of Appaloosa running on the lake
time: a knot getting untied
ripple loose – here’s a different truth, another shape
sun and shadow make a double
beyond two, sway becomes a rhapsody in new
I close my eyes to the bright blue
in the strobe behind my eyes, it’s a solo show, all I see is you
listen
we’re falling into clouds of gold
drowning
deep in sky’s the limit hope
listen
we’re falling through the sun into the gold
drowning
wherever there is music there is hope
listen
we’re falling through it all to the unknown
drowning
wherever there is music there is hope