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Before We Say Goodnight

from Roads + Junctions (digital 45) by Isobel Morris

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"Before We Say Goodnight" was written, produced, and performed by Isobel Morris, with additional orchestration by Ali A.B. Original release was in 2013. It's a totally different soundstage than the a-side, "Roads + Junctions" - lush strings and woodwinds, lots of reverb.

"Before We Say Goodnight" is based around an arpeggiated guitar figure played on a G&L Comanche through a Sunn Solarus tube amp from the 1960s.

Quote from the wonderful blog Willard's Wormholes: "a rewarding variety of offbeat ideas, melodies, harmonies, instrumentation and creativity… music I’ve had a hard time describing in the past, as much of it seems to materialize out of thin air, like it was transmitted instead of composed."

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The ground will open when we say goodnight
And swallow us
The clocks will stop
The sun will drop from the sky
Without a reason why
No time for goodbyes

Reawakened on a vacant Earth
Frozen here
And faced with fear
The choices we could have made
Erase the prices paid
Nothing more to say

Whispering into the darkness simple things
You wanted to say
Tugging on the strings
That hold aloft some well-worn guilt
That won't go away...

No destination but we're on our way
Before the start
Time's torn apart
The vestiges of our days
And all the parts we've played
Nothing more to say

The ground will open when we say goodnight
With no more time
We'll leave behind
The vanished tracks of our tears
And all our trifling fears
Will disappear

Lingering inside your heart
Some selfish words
Said out of spite
In the corner of your mind
There's something you don't want to find
Because it's too late now to make it right

Always beckoning
The echoes of the songs we sing
Before we say goodnight...
Forever reckoning
Inside our hearts with simple things
As we look to the light

credits

from Roads + Junctions (digital 45), released January 28, 2013
Isobel: Lead and backing vocals • Electric and Acoustic Guitars • Bass Guitar • Orchestral Samples • Cabasa • Tambourine • Drums • Brass samples (Flugelhorn, Trumpet, Trombone)

Ali A.B.: Orchestral samples (violin and cello) • Tambourine

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Isobel Morris Brooklyn, New York

Isobel Morris is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer.

She produces adventuresome, psychedelic rock both solo and as frontwoman of Whipping Girl and Analog Birds.

See more at mountvalley.net or follow @isobelmorrisxy on Instagram. ... more

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