Five Times EP

by Jack Cookson

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All music written and performed* by Jack Cookson. Big thanks to Ricky Netting for lending me his Yamaha Electone and especially to Natalie Dunwell for helping me finish track 2.

Extra thanks to all the friends and strangers who listened to any of the songs from this EP in their early stages (especially Aaron Simpson & Helen Mrasek).

*with the exception of drums on track 4 played by Ben Tucker - cheers Ben!

credits

released 20 July 2012
Artwork by Elly Cookson.
Produced, engineered & mixed by Jack Cookson at Fairview Studios.
Mastered by Rob Bennett at Studio 9.

Latchkey Kid Records 2012

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tags: acoustic blues country devon folk jack cookson singer songwriter unsigned United Kingdom

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Track Name: Ocean Song
Wide ocean blue, drift me away
Render me lost for the rest of the day
Far from the harbour and far from the Sound
Wide ocean blue, just drift me away

This morning, this morning he set sail
This morning he lifted anchor
To his woman he kisses farewell
For this voyage will be a long one

And out the mouth of the Plym, he goes
And into the Sound for the great beyond
Away from the trouble brewing on land
And an unfathomable distance from all the souls
he cannot stand

With the partition of their lips, he was already gone
Both feet in the boat, all hands on deck
With both eyes set on the pierce
of the double-edged horizon

But before he left, he told her this
Before he sealed their goodbyes with a kiss
"I'll send you something back over,
to remember me by"
Track Name: The Table
I thought I'd make a change today
And it'll be a big one
I'm gonna cut all contact with you
And all your foolish pretences
Will bother me no more

If I could describe you and me
In a short, yet profound simile
I'd say talking to you could be just as pointless
As trying to get some warmth from a dying fire

We can't just burn all in sight to get the fuel we need
But hell, I've got an idea

We could burn this table, a table laden with pain
Dishonesty, distrust and shame
And when it's all reduced to a cinder
Maybe we'll both know
If we should linger like ghosts or just let it all go
Probably should just let it go

I'd awake from the black and remember it all
I'd remember your face and how our love
Has grown so small
7am each morning to that same old song
Darling, I'd Do Anything* to have us smiling again

I'm no Bear Grylls but I know it's gonna take more
Than just two sticks to get that spark

We need to burn this table, 'cause all we do is blame
We run around in circles, our love is like a game

I finally made that change today
And God, it was a hard one
But I cut all contact with you
And incase you're wondering, f*ck am I singing
About trying to make things better
Between you and me, for the table is you and me

-

[*I'd Do Anything by the John Butler Trio was my wake-up call for a while around June 2011.]
Track Name: My Eyes Were Blind
Do you want my attention,
or maybe something else?
That something I could have given you
A year or two before

When my eyes were always blind
From crying, yet I never quite knew why
But I always knew it had a lot to do with you

Do you want my hand in yours?
To hold you tight and never let you fall?
Or maybe just to whisper in your ear
As you fall fast asleep? I could've when

My eyes were always blind
From crying, and I never quite knew why
Though I always knew it had a lot to do with you

And as that night time gave way to day,
and moonshine bowed to sunray
I never thought you'd have it in you to act such a way
Never thought you'd have it in you,
To act such a way
Track Name: The Head, The Heart & The Flesh
I don't know a lot about where I'm going
And neither what love really is
What kind of a person I'm supposed to be
And who the role model to follow is

And I've never really had a best friend
But no real enemies either
But I have had the odd burning hate for a man
'Cause he had one more slice than I did

The truth be told I wish I could see
Just how many more twists in the road there could be
For I'm lost with no map or even the dimmest star
And you never said it would be like this

And I've never known how to tell,
Let alone how to choose my head from my heart
But what the hell do you expect me to do,
when it's my flesh I'm a sore slave to?

When I can only see it as a 'fifth over a fourth'
And a sweet and shimmering minor seventh
Making pretty girls well up,
Or maybe to make to make the people of faith
Feel like there's something there

I don't know a lot about where I'm going
And neither what love really is
Track Name: Sonnenblume
So it's over
And yes, all things end
But the good things always end too soon

Somewhere with you
We never got to go
But I guess we'll always wonder how it could have been
Always wonder how it should have been
But probably just me

I do know times like this will just wash straight over
They'll wash right over our heads and leave us wishing for death
But longing for more, for some sad and strange reason
A reason I can't seem to explain

And so I'll try
I'll try to make life better, make it bright
And drink a little bit 'til the moods right

But all good things end
And it's you I'll lose my friend
In the painted masonry and the liquids gold to blue
I was wishing you'd been there to remind me of what I already knew

So it's over
And yes, all things end
But the good things always end too soon