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oh my love i​’​m falling down

from first steps by bushytunes

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I started with an Eastern/Arabic melody and built it up with acoustics, synths and vocal harmonies singing the title. At that point I didn’t have a lyric in mind.

I sang along with it using a distorted vocal sound, repeating and mixing couplets up, improvising around the idea of ‘falling down’ - getting behind, not succeeding, failing. Then I added the drums, extra sounds and thick, wiry, strident lead guitar which comes in to dominate the second half of the song, almost suffocating the vocals. This one feels a little like Tom Waits land to me

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Oh my love, I’m falling down
Oh my love, I’m falling down

See a penny, pick it up
All that day you’ll have good luck
All that day you’ll have good luck
See a penny, pick it up
Oh my love, I’m falling down…

Black is white and white is black
Did you pay the money back?
Did you pay the money back?
Black is white and white is black
Oh my love, I’m falling down…

Running through the streets at night
Haven’t got the strength to fight
Haven’t got the strength to fight
Running through the streets at night

Oh my love, I’m falling down…

I will see you in my dreams
I will hear you when you scream
I will hear you when you scream
I will see you in my dreams

(guitar)

See a penny...
Running through the streets at night...

I will see you in my dreams
I will hear you when you scream

Black is white and white is black...
Running through the streets at night...
See a penny, pick it up...

Oh my love, I’m falling down...

All that day you’ll have good luck...
Running through the streets at night...
Haven’t got the strength to fight...

Oh my love, I’m falling down...

I will see you in my dreams
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from first steps, track released April 17, 2013

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bushytunes Christmas Island

Once upon a time there was a crazy idea: to create, record and upload a musical track every day for a year. And the idea floated round and round the planet, looking for a place to call home. After a long time of searching and wishing and watching, the idea chose to make a nest in the brain of a bushy fellow, coming to his aid and guiding him out of the doldrums, back to a magical pathway... ... more

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