I know, I know. I haven’t updated anything in the last week except for YouTube posts which are merely me telling you what music I’ve been listening to on there. I’m sorry. I’ve been busy, I have. Working obviously, quitting playing football (more on that another time) spending more time catching up with friends, more time considering what action words can take through Spoken Word in actually inspiring people to change for the better. And testing out my new favourite toy – my Samson audio condenser mic. So I know how it seems. But I’m not not writing here purposefully.

So onto this week’s matters. You might know Noah And The Whale by the band’s most popular single Five Years Time, the ukelele opening, dual vox-ed track off of the bands first album The World Lays Me Down. Yet ‘The First Days of Spring is off the less well-known, and almost silently released, second album of the same name as the track I’m presenting. Yep, the album is a little more sombre and considered, sweet and slower than the first, but the composition is still first rate to my ears. Well, check it out for yourself:

Lyrics:

It’s the first day, spring
My life is starting over again
Well the trees grow, the river flows
And it’s water will wash away my sin
For I do believe that everyone
has one chance to fuck up their lives
Like a cut down tree, I will rise again
I’ll be bigger, and stronger than ever… before

If I’m still here hoping, that one day you may come back
If I’m still here hoping, that one day you may come back

There is hope, in every new seed
And every flower, that grows on the earth
And though I love you, and you know that
Well I no longer know what that’s worth
And I’ll come back to you, in a year or so
And rebuild ready to become
Oh the person, you believed in
Or the person that you used to love

If I’m still here hoping, that one day you may come back
If I’m still here hoping, that one day you may come back