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Untitled (I See)

from First album by The Shrieking Violets

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This song is about the depression, about the fog that sometimes comes down over your brain and lingers, obscuring your sense of who you are and hampering your ability to think.

I submitted this as my AS-level music composition, and performed it during an open evening at my school - the first time I ever performed in public. There was suggestion that I might get someone else to sing it for me, or with me, as I would be too quiet on my own, but I sang it. When I'd finished, another student said to me 'I didn't know you could sing'. Nor did I. I wanted to be a guitarist, but thought that songs needed singers. I also thought that songs should have guitar solos, so I asked my dad to give me some recommendations from his record collection for inspiration. He made me a tape featuring 'Another Girl, Another Planet' by the Only Ones, and 'Like a Hurricane' by Neil Young. I don't remember what else was on it.

Unfortunately, I have hiccups on this recording. Years later, in Manchester, I started to reperform this, and rerecorded it with my band, the Shrieking Violets.

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Please don't make me blind
So never make me deaf
Please just clear my mind
So I can think again

Don't do for me
What I should have done years ago
Don't do for me
What I should have done years ago

Why do I believe
In something I can't see
Why do I believe
In something I can't touch?

Don't do for me
What I should have done years ago
Don't do for me
What I should have done years ago

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from First album, released October 1, 2003

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When I was at school I didn't say very much, but wrote copiously. My ambitions were to be editor of the Times, a rock 'n' roll music journalist or on Top of the Pops. I felt like if you weren't loud you were ignored, but my year 9 English teacher, Mr Hodgkins, noticed that I did have things to say. He once said he knew that I was 'no shrinking violet' so I decided to be a 'Shrieking Violet'. ... more

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