{"id":2806,"date":"2009-11-22T17:53:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T17:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/?p=651"},"modified":"2009-11-22T17:53:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T17:53:51","slug":"breaking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/11\/breaking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dana<\/a>It’s a classic theme, one of the seven songs in rock ‘n’ roll – the break up, lovers parting in glorious colour, and of course, in tragic black and white. For some reason I’ve always written these songs (!) but I wrote very my best break up<\/em> song not in a space of suffering, anger, denial or sadness, but in contemplation of what happens, that recurring cycle of promises made in passion, which prove to be no more than chimeras<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Wouldn’t Do That”<\/strong> has a double meaning which runs all the way through it, and while I don’t want in this blog to be my own literary critic, I’m happy to point out the obvious: Is the promise made not to leave, or once gone, not to look back? is the question I was asking, and it’s one which is poignant to this day.<\/p>\n

I’m quite proud of this song, because the major\/minor chord progression expresses the bitter-sweet idea I was trying to articulate before I even began to say it. I quite naturally fell into singing a falsetto, and played the most soulful harmonica I’ve ever managed, which you can hear in this demo.<\/p>\n

“I promise I will never hurt you”
\n“I promise I will never leave”
\nPromises made are broken so easily
\nBrave words are just wind in the trees<\/p>\n

What are these worlds we live in?
\nDoing our thing separately
\nSurely we must have forgiven each other
\nWasn’t our loving for real?<\/p>\n

Well I’ve been so long in lonely world
\nLiving without a loving soul
\nAnd I know it won’t be long ’til I’m missing you
\nBut I made myself a promise
\nThat I wouldn’t do that…<\/p>\n

And it’s a long and lonely road
\nLiving without a loving soul
\nAnd I know it won’t be long ’til I’m missing you
\nBut I made myself a promise
\nThat I wouldn’t do that…<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Dean Whitbread 2006, all rights reserved<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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