Parallel Lives
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Parallel Lives 3:48
Released November 04, 2022
Intimate. Tender. Lyrical.
Everything you weren’t expecting.
In his latest solo release, Dublin's A Band Called Paul takes yet another stylistic about-turn and delivers an uncharacteristically visceral and downbeat ode to relationships that have gone distant over time.
Everything you weren’t expecting.
In his latest solo release, Dublin's A Band Called Paul takes yet another stylistic about-turn and delivers an uncharacteristically visceral and downbeat ode to relationships that have gone distant over time.
LYRICS:
You're not here
Even when you are, you're not here
And I forget how to be near to you as days slip away
I'm out of frame
Do you think of me just the same?
Is there something you could name for me to stop it slipping away?
Parallel lives were once side by side
With the space growing wider between us where we used to play
Parallel lives moving forward in time
Each year pushing further apart as they push us away
The deepest tears fall when there's no one to hear
No one to wave all the fears away when they gather round
Empty shells, even they have a story to tell
Of when things seemed to go so well for them, then they ran aground
Parallel lives were once side by side
With the space growing wider between us where we used to play
Parallel lives moving forward in time
Each year pushing further apart as they push us away
And before it's too late
Let's try to change it today
You're not here
Even when you are, you're not here
And I forget how to be near to you as days slip away
I'm out of frame
Do you think of me just the same?
Is there something you could name for me to stop it slipping away?
Parallel lives were once side by side
With the space growing wider between us where we used to play
Parallel lives moving forward in time
Each year pushing further apart as they push us away
The deepest tears fall when there's no one to hear
No one to wave all the fears away when they gather round
Empty shells, even they have a story to tell
Of when things seemed to go so well for them, then they ran aground
Parallel lives were once side by side
With the space growing wider between us where we used to play
Parallel lives moving forward in time
Each year pushing further apart as they push us away
And before it's too late
Let's try to change it today
CREDITS:
Released November 4, 2022
Written, recorded and produced by Paul McDonnell.
Cover image by popnzebra on Unsplash.
Written, recorded and produced by Paul McDonnell.
Cover image by popnzebra on Unsplash.