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Ash Wednesday [Alt. Version]

by There Will Be Fireworks

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Another version of this song appears on our second album, The Dark, Dark Bright. It is a song that is essential to the narrative of that album but which underwent a lengthy and painful transformation during the recording process. This version - which tells the same story but with different lyrics - has a completely different arrangement; much rawer and much less stately than the version which made the album. We keep returning to it over the years and thought people might like to hear it.

lyrics

The cold from December still lingered in March
And all of the people who stay in these houses are falling apart
He sits in the corner and sharpens his teeth
Bartering all of his blood while the sirens sing out in the street

Left at last call
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
He slept through the night
And they came and they traced him in white
On Ash Wednesday

While you were sleeping I'm up singing songs
That I'd rather not sing
The earth turned about him
The shadows are lengthening
I think it's spring

But you're woke by the phone dropped to the floor in the kitchen
The TV was flickering, hissing the news
Some far flung half truths
But home's where the heart is
And home's where the hurt is too

I left at last call
Dreamed a ghost on the 44
In amber light, the city sleeps peaceful tonight
On Ash Wednesday

credits

released November 5, 2021
There Will Be Fireworks is Adam Ketterer, David Madden, Gibran Farrah, Nicholas McManus and Stuart Dobbie

Written by There Will Be Fireworks
Lyrics by Nicholas McManus
Artwork by Gibran Farrah

Additional Performers: Karen Fishwick (trumpet) and David Thomson (clarinet).

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There Will Be Fireworks Glasgow, UK

Making music at a glacial pace since 2007. Still alive.

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