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Birds

by Little Lore

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With the lush instrumentation from Oli Deakin beautifully complementing Little Lore’s heartfelt vocals, ‘Birds’ came out of a visit to the Hampshire countryside, close to where Tricia grew up. With the chorus of birdsong that rang out around her providing a calming backdrop as she wrestled with some challenging personal news, all the while gently strumming her guitar with just an ageing and rather deaf cat for company, the melody took shape and the creatures around her began to inspire the lyrics.

Little Lore: “I wrote ‘Birds’ at a friend’s home in Hampshire. They live near the Hamble river, very close to where I grew up just outside Portsmouth. I had been devastated by a terrible event that had happened to someone close to me a few weeks before, which all sounds a bit cryptic, but without going into details I'll just say I was craving some time away to be inside my head. My friends have a gorgeous black Manx cat called Scooter. Poor Scooter is rather old and almost completely deaf, but seemed to enjoy the vibrations created by my guitar. He spent my entire stay close to me, purring a lot of the time at full volume. The birds in that area are also incredible, doves, blackbirds, thrushes, woodpeckers were enveloping me in warm calming song.”

“So that’s the scene - which you can hear described in the first verse. Along with that, I was trying to challenge myself to try different approaches to song-writing. My usual process is to start with lyrics, then build harmonics and melody comes last. This time I was playing guitar - building a palate which included some gorgeous suspended chords and I started singing what I could see and what I was feeling over the top. It was one of those rare moments that songwriters become quite addicted to, when you almost lose awareness of time and motion and you're just in the song. What seems like ten minutes later (but in reality is a lot longer) you have a song and it feels like it wrote itself. So ‘Birds’ was created.”

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Birds
Black cat purring
Birds in the trees
Boats sail by
On a river of peace
I wish I was a bird
I could fly

There are no souls
Spend the days alone
My only contact
The lies in my phone
I wish I was a bird
I could fly

Fly to the country
With my secrets
Need for escape
Gets more frequent
The birds can tell me when they sing
How to love again

He was different
Nothing there to hide
Despite the pain
It’s true he never lied
I wish I was a bird
I could fly

Chorus

Look for ways out
There’s no path
Time’s a healer
For the permanently scared
I wish I was a bird
I could fly

Chorus

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released December 2, 2022

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Little Lore London, UK

little lore is an Indie-Americana Singer-Storyteller, who's songs are both charmingly accessible and beguilingly challenging. You'll want to listen twice.

When you combine British wit and wordplay with cherished Americana roots, musical magic can happen. ... more

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