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Flood Myths

by Gerard Starkie

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The song is about having both a sense of purpose and a sense of complete insignificance at the same time - keeping those two plates spinning at the once, whilst idly imagining the pros and cons of existing in a different moment in the past or future. The seemly trivial and deeply significant, drifting in and out of focus with each other as the song progresses.

In the video we chose to convey the rolling melancholy of the music using footage of Gerard playing the song to himself on acoustic guitar, interspersed with miscellaneous objects from his childhood and artefacts from various locations around Bristol. Fleeting , disparate images that felt sympathetic to the lyrics.

lyrics

We’ve got flood myths
Ten a penny
Extraterrestrial drums
Before during and after
Zeros and ones
Zeros and ones

If you could time travel once
Would you go back or forward
What would be top of your list of things to learn
And assuming that the option was open to you
Would you more than likely return

Clutching at straws like nobody’s business
Because it is nobody’s business
You don’t need a receipt
You don’t need a witness
And you don’t need a guarantee
And you don’t need a guarantee

And so I’ll conclude we’re onto a winner
And I’ll say that with conviction
Though I haven’t really thought it through
And while there’s no plural no plural No plural for no one
What about you
What do you do

Clutching at straws like nobody’s business
Because it is nobody’s business
You don’t need a receipt
You don’t need a witness
And you don’t need a guarantee
And you don’t need a guarantee

And you’re clutching at straws
Like nobody’s business
Because it is nobody’s business
You don’t need a receipt
You don’t need a witness
And you don’t need a guarantee
And you don’t need a guarantee

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released March 1, 2024
Lyrics, music, arrangement: Gerard Starkie

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