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It's So Heavy When We Touch (Feat. Hils) - Rehearsal Recording

from EJECT: Archives and Demos 2004​-​2014 by Si Connelly

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ABOUT /

Taken from EJECT: Archives + Demos 2004-2014 album.
Recorded in 2009. I think I was one of the only people that loved this song. I probably still am, but I am proud of this one. I included this dodgy, scratchy rehearsal recording of the band playing this because I felt it had something special. It's a fairly balanced recording considering it was recorded on an iPhone, tucked into someone's bag, on the floor of some dirty old farm, on a very cold and snowy winter morning in Guildford.
Randomly, I wrote this for a brief for Annie Lennox. I remember rushing into a guitar shop in Gloucester around 2008, to record it down acoustically to send it to the Lennox people that day. They must of past, I wonder why? But I'm glad. On another Annie Lennox note, if you buy her greatest hits album, it features a song I played guitar on (pattern of my life). Interesting Connelly trivia point.

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LYRICS /

Sure enough, I've been sure enough before
I've given up, and I don't give up easily
I lose my nerve, I lose my nerve when I get closer to you
It builds me up, then it reminds me of the time when I last heard your voice

And it's so heavy when we touch at night
And I'm just some complicated fool that don't know how to say goodbye
And it's just so heavy when we touch
Am I the only one with my arms stretched out wide enough
Oh, will I ever learn?
No.

Gave up on love
I gave up on love when I got nothing from you
You're so unbled, you're pencil-lead red
Yeah you shatter every time I get closer to revealing you

And it's so heavy when we touch at night
And I'm just some complicated fool that don't know how to say goodbye
And it's just so heavy when we touch
Am I the only one with my arms stretched out wide enough
Oh, will I ever learn?

So follow me
And write me a letter, that I can read over and over and over again until I'm better
Unsettle me and keep me unsober.
And let me sink under and under and under the sea, 
Where I'll make my home
And this heaviness will turn into stone
And your statues can leave me alone until I'm better

Oh, why you so, why you so, why you so heavy
Why you so, why you so, why you so heavy
Why you so, why you so, why you so heavy

Oh, will I ever learn?

credits

from EJECT: Archives and Demos 2004​-​2014, released September 22, 2017
CREDITS /

Written by Si Connelly
Post-production mastering: Si Connelly
Recorded on Voice Memo's via iPhone
Recorded live during rehearsal at Ghost Rehearsal Studios, Guildford.

Band:
Si Connelly: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Hils: Keys, Vocals
Phil Brickell: Bass, Vocals
Tom Slaytor: Drums

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Si Connelly London, UK

Si released his debut album Youth/War/Joy in 2016 via West One. Produced by Chris Potter (The Verve, Blur) and Dom Morley (Amy Winehouse, Adele).
The album features lead track 'Hurt You, which reached 22 in UK iTunes chart and attained rotation with ITV & Fox.
Followed by 2017 single Lion House and second album Eject, a 23 track double-album, shortly followed by 2018's 13 Ghosts EP. ... more

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