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Eight In The Evening In Spring

by Rivers Of England

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My Father´s Boat 04:18
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My Father's Boat Sitting on the side of my father's boat, took a long weekend to step off the world. Hoping that the rain will call it a day, Send my thoughts into the wind - just take them away. I've lost my perspective, I'm winter worn. Noone really knows what battles we fight, so be a little kind - you just don't know. There's a flock of geese flying overhead, I lay myself down on the grass by the reed bed. The April sun melts into the wood, staring it in will do me some good. I'm lucky to be here - a fortunate man, but I'm fighting everyday and often forced to change plans. I'd lost my perspective, internalised some pain. The trouble in the world - it can get you down, you've got to step away now and again. Sitting on the side of my father's boat, I think I'm ready now to re-enter the world sitting on the side of my fathers boat, i think I'm ready now to re-enter the world. I'm lucky to be here - a fortunate man, but I'm fighting everyday and often forced to change plans. I'd lost my perspective, internalised some pain. The trouble in the world - it can get you down, you've got to step away now and again. Sitting on the side of my father's boat, I think I'm ready now to re-enter the world sitting on the side of my fathers boat, i think I'm ready now. I know what I'm not I know what I'm not, I don't know who I am Falling through the day, I'm dead without a change. Maybe my life's ok. I feel my life is done. Perhaps the best is still to come. I only just left the house. Do they value me? If yes, then I'm ok. Do the bad guys fear me? Then i feel I'm proud to be. The value of a being is never accurate. Noone should be worth dying by the roadside in the richest place on earth. I know what I'm not, I don't know who I am I wrestle with the day, I'm dead without a change. The value of a being is never accurate. Noone should be worth dying by the roadside in the richest place on earth. Desperate people trying to cross the ocean - they are swimming for their lives. What has doused the flames of our emotions, with all the papers printing lies.
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I Know What I am Not 05:04
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I know what I'm not I know what I'm not, I don't know who I am Falling through the day, I'm dead without a change. Maybe my life's ok. I feel my life is done. Perhaps the best is still to come. I only just left the house. Do they value me? If yes, then I'm ok. Do the bad guys fear me? Then i feel I'm proud to be. The value of a being is never accurate. Noone should be worth dying by the roadside in the richest place on earth. I know what I'm not, I don't know who I am I wrestle with the day, I'm dead without a change. The value of a being is never accurate. Noone should be worth dying by the roadside in the richest place on earth. Desperate people trying to cross the ocean - they are swimming for their lives. What has doused the flames of our emotions, with all the papers printing lies. I know what I'm not, i don't know who i am.
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Time Rolls On 04:45
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Time Rolls On Time rolls on like a bicycle rolling down my favourite hill And I wonder did I stop to help the people by the roadside out in the cold? Time is long and time is short and right and wrong and time can heal but time can break and steal what before you could feel Am I learning how I should live? Have I understood just what I must give? Will I face torment when my time comes to leave? What is the trick I must keep up my sleeve? Some memories arrive, like an aeroplane engine rising up from the melting ice at the foot of a mountain one century on Am I learning how I should live? Have I understood just what I must give? Will I face torment when my time comes to leave? What is the trick I must keep up my sleeve? Has the prophet been, but nobody heard? Did the aliens leave when we became so absurd.?When will the love of power be replaced by the power of love? Underrated love Universal love No rehearsal love Emancipate it love Too long we've waited love Dissipated love Uninvited love I've taken flight with love
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For Astronauts 05:32
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For astronauts Lover, I've gone away - I'm back in not too many days. Don't worry that I love you - I seek to prove I do. I'm a planet spinning around you and you're my star and tho i may be a million miles away, you're the light that turns my night back into day. You're my energy that never goes away. and tho I may be a million miles away, you're the light that turns my night back into day. You're my energy that never goes away.
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Always On My Mind 05:04
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Always on my mind Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind (You were always on my mind) You were always on my mind Maybe I didn't hold you All those lonely, lonely times And I guess I never told you I'm so happy that you're mine If I make you feel second best Girl, I'm so sorry I was blind You were always on my mind (You were always on my mind) You were always on my mind Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died Give me, give me one more chance To keep you satisfied, satisfied Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind (You are always on my mind) You were always on my mind You were always on my mind Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Maybe I didn't hold you All those lonely, lonely times And I guess I never told you I'm so happy that you're mine Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have

about

In early 2020, we were preparing to record our third album. When the pandemic took off we decided to continue with the recording project, but it forced us to change how we approached it.

The greater time at home coincided with good weather and a period of greater reflection had arrived. I live in a cottage in the woods and a two minute walk through the trees takes me to a river that opens out into a secluded lake. Each evening in the spring, I would take my guitar, mic, phone and chair to the riverbank and record the songs to a click track.

Sitting in this environment and having more time changed how the songs developed - they had more of a classical singer songwriter feel to them as they had to work by the river in the first instance for them to be considered worthy of being on the EP. By the summer, we'd layered our parts on separately and found that this approach really suited our music.

Come with me to the riverbank at eight in the evening in spring and let the songs mean whatever you want them to.

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released July 16, 2021

Rivers Of England are Robin Spalding, Brian Madigan, Ian White, William Owsley

Vocals, acoustic guitar and keyboards: Rob Spalding
Percussion and vocals: Brian Madigan
Electric guitar: Ian White
Bass: Jacob Tyghe
Backing vocals: Mona Mariposa

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