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False love, false feelings, false hopes. Sometimes your too close to the forest to see the trees. Step back, see the world for what it is - change your perceptive, change your life.

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A critics work is never done
How cynical I have become
Connecting words like chivalry
With destiny and misery

You see the world through different eyes
You learn to spot the devils guise
When the mask has slipped
And the candles blown
You stand apart
You're on your own

But when they're gone you count the days
Love is just a turn of phrase
Cut your nose to spite your face
Disregard the commonplace
Pull the rug from under you

Something has to give but at what cost?

A brighter blue you've never seen
The sky that day was all for me
Till the clouds rolled in with cruel intent
Adding bitterness to my lament

We see the world through different eyes
You learn to spot the devils guise
When the mask has slipped
And the candles blown
We stand apart
You're on your own

But when they're gone you count the days
Love is just a turn of phrase
To spite your face you cut your nose
Isn't that the way this goes?
Life replaying on a loop

Something has to give but at what cost

Guitar that goes on for ever and ever...

credits

from It Starts With A Shaker​.​.​., released July 17, 2021
Dan Wiebe (drums) Andrew Glassford and James Carson (production)

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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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