Storm Warning

from Landed by Katherine Wheatley

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Nik Tjelios set up some recording gear in my 140-year-old house. The original floorboards and the old piano creaked and groaned throughout. We had puzzled over how to avoid those sounds at first, but then, reconsidering the lyrics and the mood of the song, we kept them in. Exaggerated them in fact. I can still see Lynn bent over the toy piano and Scott stepping and then stopping and then stepping again on the floorboards. Another "off-the-floor" recording.

lyrics

Storm Warning
Words and music by Katherine Wheatley and James Gordon

No birds this morning
Silent storm warning
The wind's a keening crone
I'm tossing and turning
Freezing and burning
My restless heart has flown

Ooo

Borders are shifting
Whole continents drifting
Slowly apart
I feel like I'm breaking
My body is aching
To follow my heart

Yours' beats beside me
The rain starts to fall
There's thunder and lightning
Still, you sleep through it all

The windows are weeping
The dark clouds are keeping
The part of me that's flown
I'm too scared to wake you
I can't bear to break you
I won't, I won't.

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from Landed, released January 13, 2022
Scott Merritt - reed organ, doors and floors
Lynn Miles - toy piano
Katherine Wheatley - piano

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