Loss Of Innocence

by The Bedlam Furnaces

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We all lose it in one way or another; this song does it in under 4 minutes! It starts in a state of heady innocence, hardens with experience, builds to protest and finally breaks out into a soaring solo over a sledgehammer riff – perhaps this person escaped their shackles? Maybe they’re dreaming again.

The Muso bit

Drawn from life experience, this song took on a life of its own. I wrote it and recorded it in D, it then insisted on being rewritten and re-recorded in G. It started life as a drone, but wouldn’t stay there. It accidentally flirts with the Mixolydian and the Lydian modes, and if you spot the e-bow, then we can be friends.

lyrics

Carried by a gentle breeze, I
Float on through my mind.
In a whirlpool, spinning round, there
Is no care to find.

I have no need for real life.
Imagination kills all strife.

I don't want the answer please, but
How was it for you?
I know that I wasn't there, but
Hell! That didn't stop you…

It seems I bleed in real life.
It seems I bleed in real life.

Why must we suffer a loss of innocence?
Why can't we be everything we're meant to be?
Why do we flog a dead horse,
When we know that it's all over?
Oh! We see what we want to see.

credits

released December 16, 2022
Written, recorded, performed and produced by Ian Allison, with the amazing (wooden) Garklein and (not wooden) backing vocals of Alison Allison.

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"Epic, ferocious, melodic, dreamlike and dark."

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discography

Sysiphus

Nov 2023
Cursed (Goat Mix)

Oct 2023
Cursed (Wicker Man Mix)

Oct 2023
Loss Of Innocence

Dec 2022
Pulling Wires

May 2022
Worlds Apart

Oct 2021
Maybe. Maybe not.

Aug 2021
Fever Dream

Feb 2021
Wild Rocket

Jun 2020
Interrobang

May 2020
Bestiary

Nov 2014

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