Recorded in my living room with Tascam DR-05

Had to get this song out of my system by doing this cover, hopefully now I have recorded it and uploaded it I will stop singing it round and round in my head night after night.

Here is the sublime original by Patty Griffin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_AHpwjP8G4

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From EP the 'Triple A Side' with 3 brand new tracks and 2 bonus tracks,

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Credits Getting Away:

lead Vocals Marina Florance and Ben Smith,

lead guitar: Ben Smith

other guitar: Marina Florance

Getting Away (Radio Edit) with Ben Smith. written by Florance/Fox Allen

Lyrics:

Lately I’ve seen a change in you & a little change in me

We’re habitually entwined in day to day activity

& I passed you in the hallway, once again on the stairs

& I was taken aback when you didn't even notice I was there

Lately we've been running round life’s most demanding ways

& If we had the time to speak, don’t think we’d know what to say

so wrapped up in the trivial things we didn't read the signs

& though the cracks where there for all to see we pretended we were fine

Chorus

So, I’m getting away, from all this, getting away, it’ll be bliss

cause I know a place where no-one will find me

Just a little way from here

I’m gonna make a little home from home & simply disappear

You’ll wake up late one morning with a space there in the bed

you’ll think my shoes & coat must be laying in another place instead

& you’ll call me from the kitchen, search from room to room

but all to soon you'll realise there's nothing more that you can do

Chorus

When things have finally settled down & we’ve both pondered for a while

I’ll turn up on your doorstep with a big happy smile

& our love will be much stronger & those other little things

Won’t matter anymore cause we’re together once again

Chorus

& we're getting away from all this getting away, it'll be bliss

cause I know a place were no one will find us

Just a little way from here we're gonna make a little home from home

& simply disappear

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The Wind of change

From the moment that we met you left your impression on me

I thought my life was complete until you came my way

Take a look at me you’d never tell what I am thinking

My intentions are not as pure pure as they ought to be

And you look so troubled baby you look so ill at ease

Don’t you know don’t you know I can give you what you need

Because the wind of change is blowing our way

And I know and I know it’s gonna bring you to me

I sense the way you feel I know you’re not satisfied

It must be hard on your soul living within a lie

I can tell you something something I’ve known all along

Life’s to short to compromise you only get one chance

And you look so troubled baby you look so ill at ease

Don’t you know don’t you know I can give you what you need

Because the wind of change is blowing our way

And I know and I know it’s gonna bring you to me

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On the Compilation Album 'The F Spot' Femmes Fatales

Folk Song, based on a poem by Bill Mitton called Young Sons. A never ending cycle of war,,, from the view of a mother and her son... unfortunately many many people lose their lives to war from both genders and all faiths, colours and creeds...

The Path He Chose: Florance/Mitton

She takes down a photograph

and she holds it to her breast

just as she'd done the child it shows

she remembers his hair and how it felt

and she curses the path he chose

with a boyish smile and happiness

he picked the shilling and the gun

and she looks back with fear and dread

when he told her what he'd done

Chorus

like his father before him and his grandfather to

he'll march to war to save me and you

and have we learned nothing, nothing at all

when will we stop sending young men to war

yet she smiled and she waved him goodbye

as only a mother can

and if god was good if god was great

she'd see him return home again

but fickle fate it knows no god

makes judgments where it will

and IEDs don't discriminate

'bout who they maim or kill

Chorus

young sons often come home its true,

fulfilling their mothers fears

not with a boyish smile or happiness

but draped in flags and a mothers tear

Chorus, repeat 1st verse

credits

from the triple 'A' side, released 30 May 2014

Recorded at Folkstock Records

Vocals/BVs/Guitar: Marina Florance

Producer/Keyboard: Lauren Deakin Davies

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This was recorded live at High Barn in Essex, A song about living for today and not spending too much time worrying about tomorrow...

This is a studio version of Woman Like Me not released before, there is a live version on the Migration album. It is written by Florance/Kennedy

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'The Blue Lady' a song based on the inspirational life of May Alice Savidge who moved her medieval house from Ware, Hertfordshire to Wells-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk. The song also tries to encompass the struggle of Christine Adams (May's niece) who made a promise to complete the house after Mays death in 1993.

You can find out more about May in the books that document her life 'A Lifetime In The Building' and 'Miss Savidge Moves Her House' both written by Michael McMahon and Christine Adams.

lyrics

Brown paper parcels, boxes and bags

a house with a story to tell

of love and loss and paths that crossed

A promise to be fulfilled

In '53 came the news

they would raise that house to the ground

without a care for the hopes and dreams

of the woman who called it home

Chorus:

Was there ever such a dreamer

under the Norfolk skies

there are worse troubles at sea

for the blue lady and me

Beam by beam, tile and stone

she made her mark on everyone,

carried away with this labour of love

until the time had come

One hundred miles of open road

they carried each beam, tile and stone

to a place next the sea

one woman and all she’d owned

Chorus

Through endless days, and endless nights,

she kept diaries by candlelight

boxes so high, row after row

working tirelessly and alone

23 years of devotion

And a broken heart tied up with string

Outside a nightingale sings

What will tomorrow bring

Chorus

Little Black Cloud has been added to Tom Robinson Mixtape June 8th 2015, from This, That & The Other

written: Florance/Fox Allen

Date 2/62015 uploaded completed mastered track, Mastered by Tonalex Mastering

Recorded: i by Marina Florance and all instrumentation, LVs and production by Marina Florance, 2015

Lyrics: I used to look into the sky, on the horizon there would be a little black cloud way up high with a whole lot of rain for me it followed me like a shadow would, never gave me a moments peace rained on me whenever it could, when I expected it the least Chorus but when it rains I'll watch the flowers grow and in the dark I'll find a face in the moon and when I live I'll live each day like my last and it won't be a moment too soon and when I love it will be with my heart and soul and I will never be afraid to fall and that little black cloud won't hold me back because tomorrow doesn't come for us... Verse 2 So I took a sideways look at myself, it was then that I could see that my misfortune had become a self fulfilling prophecy so i'm gonna search for the good in everything and when that black cloud is overhead, I'll walk towards the sun instead Chorus and now I know the meaning of a life lived to the full because a life lived in shadows is not living much at all and i'm gonna search for the good in everything and when that black cloud's overhead, I'll walk towards the sun instead Chorus but when it rains I'll watch the flowers grow and in the dark I'll find a face in the moon and when I live I'll live each day like my last and it won't be a moment too soon and when I love it will be with my heart and soul and I will never be afraid to fall and that little black cloud won't hold me back because tomorrow doesn't come for us all.

A song about staying when you should leave...

Written by Florance/Fox Allen from the album 'Somewhere Down the Line'

Part of the Lyrics:

I have tasted the bittersweet flavour

of a love that’s turned sour,

felt the weight of a heart so heavy

carried through those long dark hours...

I have kept a box full of memories

of another life and time,

rewritten the rule book when the words

of love don’t rhyme...

Song is based on the poem 'Young Sons' by the poet Bill Mitton. It is written from a Mother and her son point of view, we all know that Mothers also lose daughters to war and when I sing this song I make a point of remembering that fact to the audience.

Music written by Marina Florance

Arrangement by Marina Florance. Song recorded in my living room using a Tascam DR05.

The Path He Chose

Mitton/Florance

She takes down a photograph

and she holds it to her breast

just as she'd done the child it shows

she remembers his hair and how it felt

and she curses the path he chose

with a boyish smile and happiness

he picked the shilling and the gun

and she looks back with fear and dread

when he told her what he'd done

Chorus

like his father before him and his grandfather to

he'll march to war to save me and you

and have we learned nothing, nothing at all

when will we stop sending young men to war

yet she smiled and she waved him goodbye

as only a mother can

and if god was good if god was great

she'd see him return home again

but fickle fate it knows no god

makes judgements where it will

and IEDs don't discriminate

'bout who they maim or kill

Chorus

young sons often come home its true,

fulfilling their mothers fears

not with a boyish smile or happiness

but draped in flags and a mothers tear

Chorus, repeat 1st verse