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last updated 3 June, 2008
1. mermaid kiss
4. blind
5. spirit
6. soundchaser
7. this feeling
10. like water
11. fated
12. whisper
13. thirteen
Whisper was the final song to be written for the album. With three days to go before the deadline we’d set ourselves (otherwise we would have just kept on writing new songs and replacing older ones ad infinitum) we decided to drop a song called ‘42’. We really were running on empty by then having spent long days in the studio. For inspiration Jamie turned to Etarlis and picked on a moment when two friends find themselves in a river - one floats downstream, but the other mysteriously floats upstream. The atmosphere of this song is particularly Etarlan! The song is simply one chord, Aminor (we were far too tired to even think about a second) with the melody sung over it - there is a wonderfully powerful moment when Evelyn sing/speaks the word ‘falling’ in harmony. Shivery. Considering the way it came about, Whisper is another song we’re particularly fond of.
whisper
Lost in the dark rising
mountains
I wander blind to their sound
Follow the words that you taught
me
Keep your ear close to the ground
I hear them whisper my name
I
hear them whisper my name
Lost in the art of the
forest
I’m falling under its spell
Talking in tongues of the
ancients
Listening to stories they tell
Lost in the tangle of
rivers
I’m floating gently upstream
Drawn by the sound of your
crying
Drawn by the sound of your screams
I hear you whisper my name
I
hear you whisper my name
words and music by Evelyn Downing and Jamie Field. arranged by Evelyn, Jamie and Andy.