Name: Design_v4
Channel: Ewan Jones/Sam Evans
Description: "Design_v4" is a song by Ewan Jones. Chilled, slightly messed up acoustic track. I love to do this live - might stick in your head forever. Like chewing gum.

Design_v4

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Chilled, slightly messed up acoustic track. I love to do this live - might stick in your head forever. Like chewing gum.

punk acoustic music free sexy live dark christian uk chilled church cheltenham britain

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Ewan Jones

acoustic, mellow, melancholy, depressing, chilled, relaxed, sad, challenging, with a groove, late night, bad day

Word up etc. Ewan Jones is a Cheltenham (UK) based singer/songwriter/youth-worker. He also plays bass for sometimes acoustic band The Black Flowers. ‘Not So Now’ is a collection of 12 songs that Ewan has written, re-written, recorded and performed over the last 4 years or so. The entire album was recorded in his bedroom using a rubbish guitar, a 30 year old Bass, a crap midi keyboard and a slow PC. He sings into his microphone through a pair of red fish-net tights. He is Welsh, but currently working with young people in Cheltenham. Ewan’s songs could fairly be described in turn as inspiring, downbeat and melancholic. Perfect ‘crap day’ or ‘late night’ music. The lyrics range from the delicate and self-explanatory to the veiled profound. His mum calls it ‘depressing’, but the album has also been described as ‘Possibly the most beautiful, genuine, spine tingling thing I own’, by somebody Ewan didn’t pay to offer kind words. Comparisons to recent popular singer-songwriters may be warranted, but Ewan’s influences range from Alanis Morisette to Metallica, via Ben Folds, Herbie Hancock and Humphrey Lytleton. CONTACT DETAILS: website: www.cryingduck.co.uk e-mail: thecryingduck@yahoo.co.uk mobile: 07967 740753

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic General

Charts

Peak #836

Peak in subgenre #180

Author

Ewan Jones/Sam Evans

Rights

Ewan Jones

Uploaded

October 11, 2004

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Boxing Day 2002. Sam and I just messing round with some lyrics we had. Music was too upbeat for the tone, so we slowed it down and darkened the chords. Sam never touches it, i play it all the time. Andy Symons played a Djembe on this (the millionth) version - i still can't get it quite how i want it, but see what you think.

Lyrics

could you be a long, long way away from me
but still listening to every breath i breathe
pictures fade, and memories never stay the same
when will your image disappear for me?
and on that day, how will we divide the blame,
was this ever my responsibility?
so i try to survive on the hope we placed
in saying 'we'll get by one day, one day'

in the blink of an eye my whole life has passed me by
we made no plans that we can disregard, cause we never cared enough to try
and if you were here what would you have to say of my cynical frame of mind?
I always break down - this is my design

when i was young i would hold a candle as the sun,
lit and underneath my palm
to see the blood glowing red, i never realised what it meant,
i still remind myself from time to time
trade a smile, trade a smile, i'll give you something more worthwhile,
secrets that were kept to deep to tell
open up, this is trust, this is the bearing of the soul,
of stories that are too damn cheap to sell

and so my words will speak
of how much you mean to me
and how meaningless you become when you're away
i can't let it be
when all i have is scattered history
anecdotes and useless notes to keep

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