Will Cookson - Still Life

Spotify - TikTok - @willcooksonmusic More info & contact - ​ Sheet music available here (free download) - Filmed in Bristol & Herefordshire. -------------------------------------------------------------- Will elsewhere on the internet: Spotify - More info & contact - If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it’s available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): Featuring Beth Porter (backing vocals) & the String Beans quartet: -------------------------------------------------------------- LYRICS: Oil and resin like blood on the floor Flowers and feathers strung up on the wall Another white canvas stretched to the frame Did the fear of failure haunt you the same? Toronto to London your paints in your arm Came out with a medal and your scars from the war Would you switch it for all the success of your peers? Oh where are you now got lost to the years Oooooo… Sun on the river, another red dawn Was the mist around Hammersmith Bridge getting worn? When the colours were fading under the stars Were you still trying to paint that ache in your heart? Ooooo…
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