about
After the opening sample, you hear the voice of my late grandfather, Bernard Walsh. He says “as you get older, you do not recall” before telling me that he still remembers his youth, and the first stories he used to read. This is an album all about that nostalgia, and I thought it would make the perfect introduction. I wrote the lyrics to this song in early 2014, back when I was going to call it ‘Imagination Avenue’. The Pink Floyd sample, with its scene of a poet being laughed at, for being a poet, was a fitting inclusion, and typifies much of what i’ve heard in the years leading up to ‘Jumpers for Goalposts’.
lyrics
Dreaming today is rarely found, so the dreamer finds it hard,
you don't need the anatomy chart, if you're looking to find your heart,
if you look at this type of art, there are many that disbelieve you,
we're not provided the right of hindsight, or the privilege of a preview.
So you never know where you stand, or how the future will unveil
but like everything you can never win, if you're too afraid to fail,
I've bailed on many times where I should've stayed,
didn't take decisions that maybe, maybe I should have made.
Shudder from your regrets or accept them and build another day,
this projects for the people who feel that there’s not another way,
to cut loose from the bonds that are trapping you,
let me introduce, imagination avenue.
credits
from
Jumpers For Goalposts,
released February 28, 2016
Produced by Add-2 & Vanilla
Written by Christian Foley
Contains samples of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' and a conversation with the late Bernard Walsh (my grandfather).
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