This Can't Go On Forever

from Ruthless Window by James Walsh

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This is the only song on the album with an old tune and chords. They've been rattling around my head for over a decade awaiting some lyrics to do them justice, and I finally managed to write some in the patented stream of consciousness stylee.

I guess a lot of people will assume this song is about lockdown, and it isn't. But it could be.

I recorded this on the day I finished the album. I borrowed Ruth, who was in the next room translating a German novel, to provide the backing vocals, which she performed admirably. I then badly played some snyths and declared the whole project finished.

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Caution
Fear, lust and caution
These are things that are missing from my life

Chords stuck inside forever
You listen to a tune to get it out of your head

But this can’t go on forever
And you know you’ll escape soon
And you know that then you’ll find something new

If the future terrifies you
And the pastt is to forget
Then it migh betime to try to try and live

Distance
Unreal distance
The trains have messed with our sense of local time

Midnight
Midnight in London
It may not feel it but it has just begun

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from Ruthless Window, released February 12, 2021
Written, recorded and produced by James Walsh.
Backing vocals by Dr Ruth Martin.

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James Walsh London, UK

James wrote his first song in 2009, when his then partner bought him a ukulele for his 30th birthday. He wrote a song about Laika, the first dog in space, and then got distracted by other things. This is his first attempt to write a coherent album of songs, but now this particular monkey is off his back he hopes to write a second album before the year is out. ... more

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