"1982" - Side A - About The Songs
01 - Too Damn Clever...
Sleeve Notes...
This song was written during the spring 2020 lockdown, inspired by the world suddenly seeming very different... and much clearer in some ways. It's a song about the earth, nature, progress, the people in charge and about how sometimes we really are too damn clever for our own damn good.
02 - Tongues
Sleeve Notes...
Tongues is a track about the reality (and insanity) of growing up in an era when social media dominates childhoods, where everything done or said is filmed and recorded forever and where even a tiny mistake can be blown up into a huge disaster. It's the song that contains the line the album's title was taken from. And yes - Karen Green is a real person.
03 - David
Sleeve Notes...
In the BBC documentary series "Dynasties", David, the leader of a tribe of Western chimpanzees in Senegal, is left for dead after being attacked by another male. Horribly injured, he drags himself back up, tracks down the tribe and takes back his place as leader from the chimp who attacked him. In the song, he's used as a metaphor for a situation from someone's life.
04 - Just Speak
Sleeve Notes...
There is a quote, attributed to several different sources, that says "You die twice: first, when you take your last breath, second, when your name is spoken for the last time." This is a track about loss, about how different people cope with grief in their own way and how if we don't speak about someone, we risk losing not only the person themselves, but our memories of them too.
05 - Stockholm
Sleeve Notes...
This song is based on the tru(ish) story of a couple of who meet at a wedding and decide to embalk on a spur-of-the-moment holiday together that night. What followed was a whirlwind romance that took in multiple countries, several years and some bizarre twists along the way. It's about the idea that sometimes, however much something seems like it shouldn't work, it just does.