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Holding onto life

by Cloudshapes

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Recorded entirely remotely during lockdown 2021, with help from Faz at Damage Audio Studios in Bedford.
A song about seeing the light, holding onto that beacon of hope, amidst all adversity...

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Lyrics:

So what do you do if somebody you love is lost in a time warp
And you know that there’s no way that they can ever get out
And all the signs suggest they think their life is not worth enough
To get through the night, to get to the end of the next day,
To the next big fight for life, the next big foray

So what can you say hey, how was your day,
Are you scared and afraid that death’s on the way
Is it this year, next month, maybe today,
Is what little I do just a little too late,
Shall we turn back time to a different date,
When you were living life freely in a different state,
To memories and positivities that please and ease the pace of this dreaded disease

Cause there are moments of light in the twilight
Like sparks from the embers of a fire at night
Worth more than the darkness that saps your life,
As you ride out the pain with your lips sealed tight
Those moments of light in the twilight
Like marks that remind us of a better time
Worth more than the darkness that saps your light,
So you chose to push back on the afterlife

So let’s live for today the love and the hate the good and the bad the meek and the great
To survive and be saved, never to be enslaved, like an animal, it wants your mind in a cage
So break down the bars, hide all the scars, we live for the moment and for the past,
Every hour every minute every second is ours to live as full we can before all is lost
So it’s one for all into the breach my friends, a hundred forlorn and fractured heads,
And we don’t care that we’ll never be the same, that we’ll never have the same sense of hope again
At least we know that we can live another night in the light of the fact that we did our best to fight,
against this plight, with might, for what is right in the fast fading light.

Cause there are moments of light in the twilight
Like sparks from the embers of a fire at night
Worth more than the darkness that saps your life,
As you ride out the pain with your lips sealed tight
Those moments of light in the twilight
Like marks that remind us of a better time
Worth more than the darkness that saps your light,
So you chose to push back on the afterlife

Holding onto, holding onto life
One more perfect moment in your eyes
Holding onto, holding onto life
One more perfect moment in your eyes

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released January 29, 2021

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Cloudshapes Milton Keynes, UK

Cloudshapes is singer songwriter Jim Jagger and pianist-composer Rien De Keyser. An unusual musical collaboration resulting in a big sound with intense and thought-provoking lyrics.

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