On the Other Side. Brand new song.

Hello friends,

Currently sitting in a field at Guilfest waiting to soundcheck with The Velveteen Orkestra.

The weather is hot and little girls are doing handstands on the grass… it’s all a little bit wholesome for a goth like me 😅

Never worry, here I am to bring you a real heart-breaker.

Here is a song that Jonny and I wrote last year.

The subject matter is bittersweet. His father had passed away and he was in a place of grieving.

I had these chords and the chorus line, I handed it over to Jonny and when he came through it, and back into our writing sessions he had them finished.

We’ve always used songwriting to pull us through the hard times, to commemorate them, to feel them fully… and this one is called Other Side.

It’s about saying goodbye, and expressing the heavy weight of loss that a loved one leaves behind when they part from us.

Jonny always said his dad was his hero. I’m sure you’ll agree this song is a beautiful tribute to him.

I think the lyrics are some of the best I’ve ever heard and they are all Jonny’s ♥️

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LYRICS:

Hey you quit grinning in the dark

It’s going to happen that the bite once pips the bark

Silent like a cellophane scream

Blinding like a laser beam

I loved being on your team

You always did talk big for your size

Scream at the dark until the dark learned to hide

And as sure as the morning will arrive

I’ll see you on the other side

What can I do but say goodbye

You were out there in the cold dark night

And I wept to feel your arms close around me

I smile to know you loved the sea and

To remember that you’ll be

Waiting at the tide

On the other side

On the other side

From Asphodel to carousel

Where stubborn souls like yours and mine will ride

To the other side

To the other side

Til then ma belle, I’m villanelle

You tell the black to reach for the sky

Bliss takes your wrist at the rolling horizon

Blow me a kiss and flip the finger to Poseidon

If you’re gonna do it, do it soon

Swing by my room, grab a balloon

I’ll race you to the moon.

From grace through to pity on love

And the blessed must keep walking

A lawyer in a madhouse, an English man rehearsing Faust

A glory-starved bigmouth I keep talking

On the other side

On the other side

Pour Muscatel in my inkwell

A sixpence for the boatman’s glassy eyes

On the other side

On the other side

Till then ma belle, I’m villanelle

So tell the black to reach for the sky

Back and forth paces the wolf’s thuggish heart

You put em together, I’ll pull them apart

You love is a bluejay gone haywire

And broken birds fall in the heather

I scratch these words with your feathers

On the other side

On the other side

From Sadler’s Wells to the edge of hell

Two tokens for the spectre’s park and ride

To the other side

To the other side

Till then ma belle, I’m villanelle

Tell the black to reach for the sky

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Tomorrow I will be releasing another song called Glimmertown.

Till then,

Love and Feathers from a field somewhere in Surrey,

Mishkin xx

PS - Special thanks to Garry for the beautiful mix ♥️