Let me in

by Richard Brown

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This was really fun to write and record. Got my mandolin (the one with the hole in it) out for this. Bit of folk. bit of punk, bit of psych. Like Neapolitan ice cream but weird and jaunty.

A song about my envious admiration for people keeping their cool and remaining collected in lock down.

NERDY BIT:

All recorded at home using a Samson Meteor USB Condenser. Arranged in the free cakewalk DAW. Mainly EQs/Compressers and reverb. Some arrangement and sound advice from my good friend Mr J. Sadler.

lyrics

Oh won't you please let me in
I got something I wanna
shout about

I've spent too much time
soaking in the remnants of
the hate, the trace they left behind

And the trees the begin to sway
from the weight of all this rain
since before we lost our way

Can't promise not to make a mess
Unbolt the door and
let me in
Let me in let me in

where do you go
when the thunder and rain
keeps on crashin down
we can't keep hiding
the water is rising
we slowly drown
ohhhh ohhhh eohhhh...

Oh won't you please let me in
this fist is strained from clenching
I don't even know how it begins

the wall is coming down
the rain is pouring
as we reach beyond our limits
t' higher ground

is beyond our reach
let me in before we're
lost and then our bodies
plug the breech

the promises we made
open the door and we
might have a chance
a chance of being saved

let me in let me in

we can't keep surviving
the water is rising
the machine is broken
intentions unfolding
we need agitation
and new information
with our fists we were hopin
but the doors will not open

Recorded at COTV2 Studio June 2020

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released June 27, 2020
All lyrics, music and recordings Copyright Rich Brown 2020

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