FROM THE ALBUM "TAKEN".
Album features 32 tracks – includes remastered "Ghosts Are White" album (with The Trains), 11 bonus tracks plus extensive liner notes.
Greg Fleming is an established singer-songwriter from Auckland, New Zealand.
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This first song I wrote after three years away from the music scene. At this time (early 2003) I often crashed at a friend’s place in Ponsonby which had a grand piano in the living room. Whenever I stayed I’d get up early every morning and play. One morning Anthony Ioasa, whom I hadn’t seen since 1996, wandered out from one of the rooms. It turned out he was crashing there too. “That’s a nice tune,” he said, “you should record it.” While Anthony and I did record a version soon after, the version here comes from a solo piano session at the Helen Young studio. Bic Runga’s gorgeous song ‘Listening For The Weather’ was the radio hit of the day and seemed to follow me around everywhere I went, taunting me… “never be afraid of change”. Based upon a true story – Letterman was duly muted for another spin of Bic’s song – but the thing about change is that it’s implacable; it’ll roll over you like a truck.
lyrics
(for Jade)
Invited round for dinner and wine they haven’t seen each other for such a long time.
He’s standing there behind her door, they both take a breath and try to stand tall.
She’s wearin’ a brand new, similar dress, roses red right outa bed.
Paperback’s at the same page and Bic’s ‘Listening For the Weather’ just plays and plays. There’s no climbing in that window again.
They can’t seem to win, but whoever wins, whoever wins?
They wish the wine was twice as strong, in Western Springs there’s a party going on and slowly they tell their sad old stories and only ‘Listening for the Weather’ makes it hunky dory.
And he makes her watch Letterman and she pretends to like TV American, and outside the rain it’s pouring down she wants ‘Listening for the Weather’ can he turn down the sound?
There’s no climbing in that window again.
They can’t seem to win, but whoever wins, whoever wins?
She pays the taxi with her credit card, almost trips going into the yard, and everyone
thinks they’re back together but now they’re just lovers of ‘Listening For the Weather’.
So he walks back down the hill to home, kinda sad but kinda glad to be alone.
He left her at the party talking to a guy and only ‘Listening for the Weather’ dries the tears from his eyes.
He puts the CD on at track number 10 and the rain stops just as the song begins and he starts to grin.
Never be afraid of change, Never be afraid of change, Never be afraid of change, Never be afraid of change.
from Taken,
released June 21, 2010
Vocals/piano: Greg Fleming.
Recorded live at Helen Young Studios by Andre Upston, 2003.
Mastered 2010 by Dale Cotton Mastering.
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