SPECIAL 6-track CD edition of ‘Behind The Mask EP’. This revamped version includes the 4 original tracks and one David Bowie cover that appeared online in March 2017 PLUS CD only bonus track ‘Love River’, a dive into the complexities of breaking away from the past and embracing the new.
This package features beautifully shot cover art by creative visionaries 'Mothmeister' and is presented in a slick cellobag.
Track Listing
June Angel
Obey
One Thing
Blackstar
Shaking Rain
Love River
'One thing' was written in January 2014 and released as a single in January 2016.
It was first performed live with 'Nick and the Sun Machine' at the launch of Nick Stephenson's second album 'Wide Lying Smiles' on the 8th March 2014. The song also made it to the final of the NATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION 2015 and has been performed Live on BBC Radio London.
'One Thing' explores the two biggest and most universal of themes, love and hate and has a big, thunderous sound thanks to some excellent production and drumming from Steve Rodford (The Zombies)
lyrics
One thing by Nick Stephenson
One thing about love, you can’t lie to it, looks you up and down, it’s not a torturous crime
One thing about hate, we won’t learn from it, cause love is there any day, anyway all the time
I’m leaning through the balcony in a mood of near content; the vines keep creeping up the terrace to wrap around my neck
This pull is gravitational, I’m addicted to it’s force, I’m lost in admiration, I’m governed by these thoughts
Ooo don’t run away, oo lie on the bed and stay
Ooo don’t run away, oo lie on the bed and stay
We’re stirring up this hatred, won’t someone change the tune or take a matchstick to these ways and finalise us soon. Wreck the park and fields, run naked through the flames, to the endless sweep that pulls us one step further from the rain
And I’ve got no inhibitions when staring at your eyes, there is no contradiction in their movement or their shine
It couldn’t be the devil, dragging me to hell
Impossible, as I know that’s what somebody wants to sell
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