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We might be able to get a mix sorted,
so that you're actually going out with something that's relatively complete.
There will be a time, I'm sure, we'll find a gap somewhere,
where you can come in and do it again,
but it's like, I don't know when.
Yeah, cool.
Can you work with James to get a mix of what is there now,
as close as we can, right, to some kind of completion.
- This is a really loud amp, isn't it? - Very loud.
Fingers...
Do that, will you?
That's nice.
How about if we hang it up,
or one of you hold it and we stick a microphone at both ends?
...might work I think.
It does need to cut through.
Don't hold back.
That is so cool actually.
Come on, man, you gotta use that.
That's got such resonance if you pick it up off the floor.
I'm gonna get back problems - you realise this, don't you?
I'm suffering for my art.
Actually, suffering for your art.
(All laugh)
Yeah, that was really good. That was really good.
And the end bit where you went duck-aduck-aduck was excellent.
That sort of went against the original rhythms.
Oh.
But it sounded good actually.
I think we're there. That sounded to me to be much tighter.
I love you lot, cos you always force us to be creative,
do something we've never done before.
Is it really slow or has it got a sort of rhythm to it?
What do you think?
I'm gonna start kind of high but then go down a bit.
I've got perhaps a better idea.
I think what you're gonna have to do is just give me...
Just burst into song with it.
- What, from watching it? - Just give it a try.
# Watching it towering me
- # Sending me down... - Hold on.
# Sending me down...
- That's all right, isn't it? - Yeah.
# Watching it towering me
# Sending it down...
All right, OK, hang on, I heard a chord.
It might be...
# Watching it towering me
# Sending it down...
I'm hearing # Watching it towering me
# Sending it down
Actually, you've got a waltz, believe it or not.
Let's start with that then.
I just want to get that verse in our minds really clearly.
So it's...
# My spirit
# Is falling from the sky
# Watching it towering me
# Sending me down
I think you repeat that.
Please catch me now...
No, just wait, James, what I'm gonna try and do now
is decide on the next chord.
Well, I'm not gonna decide, you're gonna decide.
I'm gonna try a few options.
- Right. - # So...
Oh, hang on.
# My soul has turned again...
Do that again. My soul...
# Has turned again...
You're doing something really good.
That's what you did the first time. I kind of like that.
OK.
What do you think? Is it feeling kind of right at the moment?
I don't know, it's a bit early days. You can't really tell.
That drum rhythm is really odd.
I kind of like it.
Yeah, cool.
It's sending it off in a different direction slightly, isn't it?
Different, yeah.
Tell me again about...
You started to talk about how this...
What the purpose of this...
- Yeah. - ..when you wrote it.
My mate went through a lot and she wrote this.
So, she kind of like put it down on paper,
So, really, we should make it quite dark and...
The first two are not too bad but the second...
The first two? The first verse and the chorus are quite light.
You don't have to say anything about it if you don't want to,
but what... can you be more specific,
when you say she's been though a lot?
Em...
She ended up...
She kind of like ended up self harming herself,
that's why she wrote it down.
I told her, stop doing that and write it down, it's so much easier,
and less painful as well.
Physically, it's less painful, but...
So, you're actually helping her.
- Yeah. - I tell you what, you know,
this business of working with people who've got...
who've got... who are actually in pain, as it were,
working on songs is an amazing thing.
And I know that myself, when I've had bad times, I've written lots of songs.
Yeah, so have I.
It gets it all out, doesn't it?
One, two, three, four.
# My spirit's
# Falling from the sky
# Watching it towering me
# Sending me down
# Looking at it from slavery
# Please catch me now...
That's it.
# My soul has turned again
# Sending my spirit high
# What do they expect me to do?
# Totally move the lines #
That's fine. That'll be great. That's all we need for now.
We can worry about the way it's actually gonna go later.
Excellent.
We have written a song!
(Both laugh)
Great!