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Ever the Optimist

by Exploring Birdsong

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sam w. A marvelous comeback from an amazing band. Really intrigued by the new pop-adjacent style they're experimenting with; they pulled this off while still retaining some of the core prog elements from "The Thing With Feathers".

Excited for more!

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This song certainly has the most interesting back story to any of the tracks we’ve written. When in university back in 2018, Lyns and Matt were given the opportunity to have a one on one songwriting session with Sir Paul McCartney. This is the song they took into the session and worked on with Sir Paul himself. It’s by far the poppiest song on the record and was the catalyst for centring our songs around synths as well as sole piano parts.

lyrics

Loss of control
The gears twist and the clock turns
Ever the optimist ’til
The clouds roll in and the bridges burn
The aggravation of drawing blood out
From the stone
We’ve hit the bone

Kingdoms fall
With the weight of it all
And we’re gone

I hate to tell you but the setting sun won’t rise
The shepherd lost his grip and
Now the wolf’s inside

Now the paragon has poison in his veins
We’ll wash away
We’ll all decay

A slowing breath
A sharpened tongue for comfort
Ever the optimist ’til
The deluge hits, but the famine first
The final reckoning
The action and the consequence
You’ve drawn your breath

A fumbling king
Only chaos he’ll bring
An obedient queen
Forced in between
The obscene

I hate to tell you but the setting sun won’t rise
The shepherd lost his grip and
Now the wolf’s inside

Now the paragon has poison in his veins
We’ll wash away we’ll all decay

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released November 25, 2022
P&C 2022 Long Branch Records, a division of SPV GmbH.

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Exploring Birdsong Liverpool, UK

Exploring Birdsong are a piano driven progressive rock band from Liverpool, UK.

After launching in September 2017, the trio have developed a truly unique sound drawing influence from both 70’s pioneers ELP, Genesis and Kate Bush to modern progressive poster boys Tesseract and Steven Wilson. ... more

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