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Run With Me (feat. Frances Sladen)

from Flowers Where The Horses Sleep (2020) by Joshua Burnell

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Released 2020. Re-released here with bonus tracks, including original demos and unreleased songs.
    NOTE: The bonus tracks are not on the CD; when you buy it, the accompanying free download contains the bonus tracks.

    "Outstanding... A brilliantly accessible album, bursting at the seams with ideas, imagery and an assured ability with melody and song structure." - Folk Radio UK

    All music and lyrics written and arranged by Joshua Burnell.
    Recorded between September 2019 and February 2020 by Ed Simpson at Moon Glue Studios, Poppleton; Spencer Cozens at Steinway Recording, Fulbeck; and Joshua Burnell at Misted Valley Studios, York - just in the nick of time before the COVID-19 lockdown.

    Mixed by Ed Simpson and Joshua Burnell.
    Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.
    Cover art by Hari & Deepti.
    Photography and graphic design by Elly Lucas.
    Published by Wipeout Music.
    All tracks copyright © Joshua Burnell 2020.
    A Misted Valley Production.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Flowers Where The Horses Sleep (2020) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about

There is a ruined fortress almost hidden amongst the trees on the hill just as you pass Harewood House. Naturally, Fe and I couldn’t resist exploring. As we were admiring the overgrown foliage creeping out from the ruins, we spotted two figures carrying guns. We looked at each other, laughed nervously, then pegged it. As we were running, a deer leapt out from the undergrowth to our left and for one gloriously fairytale moment, locked eyes with me and ran alongside us. I can’t decide which was more profound: the fact that we felt an overwhelming sense of connection and empathy with this terrified doe, or the fact that we looked like a couple of Lord of the Rings extras lost in a deleted scene from Bambi.
It was one of those surreal experiences that sticks with you and it formed the basis of this song. Although in the end, the whole story served as a wonderful metaphor for what I really wanted to say.

lyrics

It’s like we’d fallen right into a song
When summer days were bright and growing long
A fortress fallen from its glory days
We locked its doors and shut the world away

Ah…

Here comes the poacher with his gun
To steal your thoughts and and suck the breath from your lungs

We are frozen here in fear
And I never know if I’m the only one who’s lost their way

Ah…

They say don’t break away from the pack
Or else you’ll feel our bullets in your back

Will you run with me
Through then valley-o?
Would you jump with me
If I told you so?
Will you run with me
Through it all?

But the fortress has a hole upon its roof
I wish I’d sung it sturdier for you
I try to fill the gaps as best I can
But the world comes falling in wherever we stand

Ah…

A doe jumps up from the underbrush
Leaping for its life, just like us

Will you run with me
Through the valley-o?
Would you jump with me
If I told you so?
Will you run with me
Through it all?

Always count the stars there about you
But now, we have to run
But now, we have to run

Take my hand, don’t stray
We’ll make it there some day

Will you run with me
Through the valley-o?
Would you jump with me
If I told you so?
Will you run with me
Through it all?

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from Flowers Where The Horses Sleep (2020), released September 1, 2023

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Joshua Burnell York, UK

In one phrase? Folk-fused baroque ‘n’ roll for the modern world.
With music ranging from stomping, acoustic sing-alongs, Bowie-esque music hall epics, and alt-pop singles - whilst keeping a sharp focus on the traditional themes - Joshua is fast carving out his own unique corner of the genre. ... more

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