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A LOVE STORY – THE LYRICS
The song tells the story of two women who fall in love but can't be together and are forced apart due to their life circumstances. One woman is with a male partner and has children and the other has just come out of a long relationship with a woman. I chose Poland as a place of reference due to the history of partitioning in that country and people being forced apart. There was a synergy too with the forced isolation due to the pandemic and I found myself wanting to create a musically and visually beautiful world to be drawn into.
Many concerns sat with me while I worked. With loss of life, displaced people, family crisis' & economic chaos all around, I wrote the final lyrics of this song as a mechanism to leave the listener feeling hopeful and to reach out in my own way to family, friends and others.
WRITING POLAND (pre 2020 pandemic)
I wrote the song 'Poland' before the COVID -19 pandemic of 2020. I recorded acoustic guitar and vocals at my Thylacine House Studios in Hobart, Tasmania in December of 2019. We overdubbed the electric bass played by my dear friend and long time music collaborator Maryanne T Window.
RECORDING THE SONG (during 2020 pandemic)
This has been a creatively enlightening and informative time for me as an artist. The process was intense due to COVID-19, causing the ignition and galvanisation of my creative art practises to put my skills into working on something beautiful, poignant and meaningful. To complete the track I played and recorded string parts, electric guitar, backing vocals, cut in drum beats and mixed the track while in isolation over three weeks from March 20 - April 14, 2020 at my Thylacine House Studios.
MY MISSION
My objective was to create thought provoking and emotionally expressive art to share with others at this time of pandemic. Through my meditations and isolation during this time of making this work, I felt a thoughtful and enduring voice resonating within me that I think many of us have experienced. My thoughts have been around treading a new course, rewriting the future chapters of life from a changed angle the redefining and questioning what is important and what matters.
lyrics
LYRICS
So I woke up in your arms and I was afraid to say, I was terrified
That I might have fallen in love with you
Don’t have to know someone for long to feel like you’ve fallen
You don’t have to know someone for a lifetime
Oh I wish we could have been
Oh I wish we could have been
Just for one night we walked through that fire
When you took me to Poland
All around the buildings burn yeh they burn down, down to the ground
On that night I’d fallen in love with you
Don’t have to know someone for long to feel like you’ve fallen
You don’t have to know someone for a lifetime
Oh I wish we could have been
Oh I wish we could have been
Just for one night we walked across that fire
When you took me to Poland
All around your heart is good and I’ve seen it if just for a short time
But I think we both knew going into this was never gonna work
‘Cause you had to leave the life you had behind
And that’s just what happens
I wish we could have been
Oh I wish we could have been
Just for one night we walked across that fire
When you took me to Poland
And all I want to do is talk to you
And tell you that I want the best for you
Ah that’s all you need to know right now
And all I want to do is just talk to you
And tell you that I want the best for you
Ah that’s all you need to know right now
credits
released April 17, 2020
Poland was written, recorded, produced, mixed & mastered by Monique Brumby @ The Thylacine House Studios, Hobart Tasmania
Musicians: Monique Brumby – vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, beats, keys.
Maryanne Window – electric bass
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