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Words & music by Tony Floyd Kenna.

Tony – ‘There have been some amazing songs written for people after their death or absence from our lives, ’The Living Years’, Lennon’s ‘Mother’, ‘The Day That Our Fathers Pass’ by Martin Gerschwitz, too many to list here. So I thought what about a song for those to be left behind? If we knew when our time had come it would be nice to pick somewhere special for our final breath, our final words, our final view of this world. The words came quickly and easily and I decided to let them roll over a nice repeating four chord progression. Once I had the basic track down I worked on the bits and bobs over a week and continually ran rough mixes to get a good feel of where it was going. I also posted some ‘work in progress videos’ on MT to let people hear how it developed. When Joe arrived on Friday all my bits were done and the song was ready for some epic moving guitar soloing. The song was a bit different to the other tracks we were working on so Joe did two or three different takes and we then picked what we thought best suited. Unusually, the final mix did not come easily. I actually ran five or six over a few days until the right one was saying ‘pick me !’. A giant wall of sound toward the end would have been an obvious, and great way to finish, but I decided to let it breathe a bit right to it’s final fading note.

Joe – ‘I hadn’t much to do here – Tony put a lot into it and I think it was worthwhile. A very moving song!’

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from Light Side Of The Dark, released September 25, 2011

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