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Snow Falls (live)
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A live-in-the-living-room recording of the first track on the 'Skeleton Key' album-ette.
piano ben collins michael
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Piano pop with hormones. Edgy. Creative. Melodic. Experimental. Singular.
A piano, a boy, a computer. 88 keys, vocal chords, electricity and a kaleidoscope mind. Enough of that . . . self-promotion makes me queasy. If you're willing to explore it, the key to my subconscious is available. A Skeleton Key. It will unlock all the doors, although you have to struggle with some of the bolts. A slow journey into madness all in a 30 minute album-ette! (so-called because too big for an EP but too small for a proper album). I used to record as Michael Collins. That is what my parents called me. It's already been claimed twenty times over so I decided to take up this one. Songs I wrote as Michael Collins are relics. A collection of some of those songs (called 'Relic'; purely coincidence I assure you) is available. Once upon a time I put out a disc called Fixate. Fixate was OK I guess but some bits of it pissed me off and I had a bad attack of low self-esteem and leprosy (mostly low self-esteem) so I don't talk about Fixate anymore OK?
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Peak #337
Peak in subgenre #54
Author
Ben Collins
Rights
Michael Collins 2001-200X
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November 28, 2004
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MP3 4.1 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
I stood in a gas station parking lot during Easter 2001. I was waiting for my mother to come out and unlock the car. It was slowly starting to snow. The idea came to me. I had a 90 minute car ride. I wrote it in my head. By supper-time, it was done. This was recorded over summer 2004, on a single mic, as a live performance to an empty living room.
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Snow falls today, or not any other day while I sit in the back and try to make sense of things Who knows, today I may find me an angel a devil with a halo and a grin at crooked angles Snow falls today dreams carried away Ten times today, I thought of things to say while I sat in the front and tried to control things Winter today, though it's my April holiday a knowing smiling look, I'll come home some other day Snow falls today dreams carried away Snow falls today dreams swept away
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