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'Deep Breath' video update
Hey one and all,
Following our last mail out requesting your footage of video material to be cut to our song ‘Deep Breath’, we’d like to thank everyone who's sent us footage so far!
We've received a number of emails asking for clarification about what sort of footage to send and whether the lyrics might be available to get ideas from.
So, see the lyrics below, and we are open to anything that they might suggest to you.
We were thinking generally of footage of how your world has changed since the lockdown in terms of your commute to work perhaps, or your visits to shops or facilities in your area.
Or older footage you might have of happier times when large groups of people assembled either in celebration or perhaps to protest together but it really is an open brief - that’s video talk for ‘we haven’t got a fucking clue and we were hoping that you’d do the hard work’ - so go with whatever the lyrics might suggest to you.
The ideal footage would be approx. 30-60 second clips in landscape format. (16:9 when you turn your phone on its side and film horizontally).
Please send your footage direct to the band email thedowlingpoole@gmail.com or for longer clips, please same address and send via WeTransfer.com, which is a free mail service for larger files.
Please send in your footage by Weds 25th May!
The song and video will be released for free on the next Bandcamp day, on June the 5th.
Love, Willie & Jon
Lyrics - "Deep Breath" - The Dowling Poole
Some called it reckless – They warned of consequences
Hard wired for helpless – Trapped by their own defences
Lets blame those ugly children
Wise words designed to make no sound at all
Where went those promises?
Who stole that book of dreams to come?
So flat-line your senses now and turn
Before all the engines burn it all away.
The harder they come, the big and the tall
The deeper the bed to cushion their fall
2-3-4 deep breath
United we stand, divided we fall
See the people cripple and crawl
2-3-4 deep breath
Still you’ll get no satisfaction
We hide in smug superior
Then we light up the fires to fuel the cruel
Shame for the laissez-faire neglect
One more cog in a wheel of incompetence (to shield your eyes)
The harder they come, the big and the tall
The deeper the bed to cushion their fall
2-3-4 deep breath
United we stand, divided we fall
See the people cripple and crawl
2-3-4 deep breath
And I can’t get no satisfaction
And all they see glitter is gold for the fools
Like slaves to their own super-cool
The game is done, the wrong side won
There is no change of heart to come
No last reprise, no guarantees
You lost your voice when you disagreed
And all the rhetoric, that got you in a spin
Will take away the only pot you had to piss in
And when the tables turn, as far as you’re concerned
You’ll be the next in a line of weak they come to burn
All we listen for are bells to ring the changes
All we’re wishing for are better days to come
All we listen for are bells to ring the changes
All we’re wishing for are better days to come
All we listen for are bells to ring the changes
All we’re wishing for are better days to come
All we listen for are bells to ring the changes
All we’re wishing for are better days to come – come – come – come – come - come
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