'WEARENOW' - Behind the song...

Track 3 on Fingerprints is WEARENOW.

Nearly all the songs on the album were written between February and May 2017 although this is an exception, the oldest track on the album from December 2014.  At the time I was in an Electronic duo Bilamie with my friend Mucky Cherub/Beth Swain with a view to showing it to her and seeing if she wanted to do it in the band.  It was almost completely forgotten about and then I stumbled across it as I was putting Fingerprints together and decided to revive it and finish it off.

I guess I have a similar problem to most musicians; the desire to create vs. the energy left to do it after you finish work at night.  The message in the song is one of unity and ambition though and sharing that energy with someone else to overcome what you need to, in order to get your music out there. The lyrics in the chorus are more obviously relating to that.

It’s also the only song on the album with a guitar (Bilamie had guitars!). This song also has a couple of different soundclips from friends telling me in their own way to "chill".  Thanks to Hipnotic Jazz and Maik Münch.

WEARENOW

We are the stalkers

We are the strikers

We are the shakers

We are the takers

We are the spotlight

We are the live wires

We are the last ones

And we are midnight

I’m only human, I tried otherwise

You can’t be human if you're drained of life though

Cleaning to corporate, commuting far

Working late and sulking hard

Change in time, clout to cower

Pocket money, pain by the hour

All that energy I gave, brainwashed

And all that time is lost        

We have finite energy and we waste our lives

Giving grace to thieves, cheat us out of time

We’re the walking dead, excess by threat

Were you born to serve or live instead?

We are the blaze and

We are blend and

We are the morse code

We are the dead end

We are the latest

We are the furthest

We are the terminal

We are the endless 

I try my hardest, you might think otherwise

We make the best with the drive we have tho

Tied to a desk in a suit to charm

Close off a scrap with kind regards

Always smiling, crying on the inside

Kept it up for a very long time but

Forcing nature’s not nature’s will

Easy flow now, easy, Will

We have finite energy and we waste our lives

Giving grace to thieves, cheat us out of time

We’re the walking dead, excess by threat

Were you born to serve or live instead?

We have finite energy and we waste our lives

Giving grace to thieves, cheat us out of time

We’re the walking dead, excess by threat

Were you born to serve or live instead?

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Links to Fingerprints:

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/fingerprints/1367056005

   

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2My4CWDAN7CmIfkOPLliBe?si=lM9Kc63AQDKFlQQYXyI09Q

  

Amazon: http://amzn.eu/d02bIUl

  

Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/62871932?utm_source=deezer&utm_content=album-

62871932&utm_term=637184851_1525717673&utm_medium=web

Junodownload: https://www.junodownload.com/…/web-sheldon-fing…/3746666-02/

Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/fingerprints/2260178

Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/960685/fingerprints

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Web_Sheldon_Fingerprints?id=Br3ftjlj3blbifw4mopszxxvuie&hl=en