Everything

by Schwa

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We originally worked on this track for a live suite 'I Am Alive', in Spring 2017. It seemed appropriate to send out at Christmas, so we started work on a home recording and a month later, here we all are!

Love from Schwa x

lyrics

How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?

There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.

The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.

The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.

I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.

Everything is going to be all right.

Derek Mahon

from New Collected Poems (2011), published by The Gallery Press, and used with kind permission.

credits

released December 24, 2017
Peter Spafford, Jacqui Wicks: Voice
Richard Ormrod: Voice, Piano, Electric Bass, Electric Guitar, Steel Pan, Synth, Soprano/Alto/Tenor/Baritone Saxophones, Bass/Contrabass Clarinets
Owen Spafford: Violin

Recorded and mixed by Richard Ormrod

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Schwa Leeds, UK

Welcome in Schwa: Peter Spafford writes poetry and plays the piano; Richard Ormrod plays other instruments and arranges tunes. More recently, Jacqui Wicks sings and plays the ukulele.

discography

Hope of a Tree

Mar 2023
Dead In The Cold

Feb 2021
Autumn Birds

Dec 2020
Everything

Dec 2017
Threshold

Mar 2017
Now We Are Schwa

Apr 2016
Bound Away

Jan 2013

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