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Golem 2020

by Louise Connell

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A new recording of one of the highlight's from Louise's Straw Woman album.

We always intended this song to have more of a kind of Motown feel, with a bit of Lust For Life thrown in. With the lockdown severely hampering our efforts to get the next album recorded, we thought we'd use the time to have another crack at this song and get it closer to how we originally imagined it. As much as we love the album version we're really chuffed with how this version has turned out!

lyrics

You turned a coffin into a ship
That sailed through battles fought and lost and children's lives spent
You said, I’m rowing to freedom but oh god it hurts
I’m surrounded by water but this thirst, this thirst

Hope is an anchor that weighs on your chest
I’m having troubles here with buoyancy and the dreams make it worse
I’m falling deeper and deeper into the sea
But the further I go the more I fall into me

And I’m nothing I’m nowhere
I’m photons gliding through the air
Colliding with the gaze of those
Who form and break me, form and break me
Nothing, nowhere
Just photons gliding through the air
Colliding with the gaze of those
Who form and break me, form and break me

It’s a flash of a light and the blink of a life
The flash of a light and the blink of a life

A theory of time travel I believe:
When someone looks at your face and sees all that you are
And all that you have been and all that you could
The infinite paths that are stretching out from you

Like you're nothing and nowhere
Just photons gliding through the air
Colliding with the gaze of those
Who form and break you, form and break you
Nothing, nowhere
Just photons gliding through the air
Colliding with the gaze of those
Who form and break you, form and break you

It’s a flash of a light and the blink of a life
The flash of a light and the blink of a life

Louise Connell

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released September 10, 2020
Louise Connell - vocals, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Stuart MacLeod - electric guitars, bass guitar, organ, percussion, backing vocals
Dougie Free - drums
Caitlin MacLeod - backing vocals

Produced by Stuart MacLeod and Louise Connell
Recorded and mixed by Stuart MacLeod at Beetroot, Scotland
Mastered by Darius van Helfteren at Amsterdam Mastering

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Louise Connell Glasgow, UK

“A diverse, deep-vein double album which vaults her into contention as one of the most insightful and pertinent songsmiths, anywhere, to have emerged in recent years.”
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