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about

Heading to the middle of the album and this track takes me into some pretty dark territory. The inspiration for this song came from a moment when I was young and a gang set upon me and gave me a good kicking one dark night. I was on the ground and they were beating the **** out of me simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Apart from blind panic, when you are in that moment, something weird happens in your brain, all the wires start sort of sparking, a million thoughts flashing around in your head.

The song isn't really about the beating.

It's about the other things. The things you think about. The things that matter.

So thanks to those guys whoever and wherever you are.

You gave me this song.

lyrics

Broken bottles and sad eyes follow me home, home, home
The night it wraps round me like a glove
And it keeps me warm, warm, warm
I close my eyes and I’m floating in the clouds
I’m drifting in the sea I’m in the hills where the wind takes me
I’m in a field of love
Angry voices close in on me so I start to run, run, run
But these legs won’t set me free then the pain it comes, comes, comes
I’m a child in my mother’s arms she comforts me
I’m with a girl trembling at our first kiss and my heart skips a beat
I’m falling forward after my first steps faces beam with pride
But then I’m on the ground and I’m bleeding out
And there’s noone around.....
If this body it gives up if this blood it runs out if this breath it gives up
This soul never will
I’m reaching for the stars
I’m reaching for the sky
I’m reaching for the love that I always had
Yes if this body it gives up
If this blood it runs out
If this breath it gives up
This soul never will
I’m reaching for the stars
I’m reaching for the sky I’m reaching for the love.....
Yet the darkness it descends
Yes the lights are going out, out, out
And there’s noone in the street noone to hear me shout, shout, shout
I came to this alone that’s how I choose to go, go, go
But it’s tearing me apart
All the love that’s in my heart, heart, heart

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from Welcome To The Ball, released August 27, 2015

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David Ell Edinburgh, UK

David Ell's debut album Wreckingball, preceding both Bruce Springsteen and Miley Cyrus, is a record full of "epic" pop songs. "For raw heart-on-the-sleeve pop, look no further".

Dance of the Furies (instrumental) features as one of NTL Music Radio's top 100 albums of the year (2012).

Enigmatic long player, Welcome To The Ball is due for release under record label Mask Carnival in 2015.
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