Name: Familiar Grounds
Duration: P00H03M54S
Description: This is about the same old same old. Finding yourself in the same situations and repeating the same mistakes and bad choices and never learning from it. About how living too much inside your head can trap you and keep you in this loop and repeating a hopeless pattern of behaviour.

Familiar Grounds

from It Starts With A Shaker... by James M Carson

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This is about the same old same old. Finding yourself in the same situations and repeating the same mistakes and bad choices and never learning from it. About how living too much inside your head can trap you and keep you in this loop and repeating a hopeless pattern of behaviour.

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Mmmm Mmmm

Hanging from a single thread
Clinging to the last shred
Thoughts that flicker in my head
That might sound strange to you
But you don't know what I'm going through

Conscience plays over everything if you let it
You will doubt everything you do if you let it

Thinking of a former life
Magic was the final cut
Tragic are the memories
That might come back to you
And you don't know if you want them to

But you don't know what I'm going through

I feel like I've been here before
Just standing at that open door
Afraid to take a step into familiar ground with you
Because I know what we might run into

Mmmmm Mmmmm

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from It Starts With A Shaker..., released July 17, 2021
Matty Croft (production), Mat Peters (drums)

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James M Carson Manchester, UK

Not unlike music from the hills of 70s Laurel Canyon, Carson's songs evoke shadows of simpler times when the quest for melody was king. James has been influenced by the melodic melancholy and intimate lyricism of singer songwriters like Neil Young and Elliott Smith, but equally entranced by the power pop hooks of bands such as Teenage Fanclub as well as their grunge admirers, Nirvana. ... more

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