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In The Half Light (Recorded in Vault Dancehall Belfast 20​/​11​/​20)

by Laura Quirke

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Some songs appear like a presence in a room, fully formed, willing to be breathed into being. These songs rarely come to me, but when they do, I'm entranced by our conversation.

I want to share a song that is one of that presence in the room kind. I feel very lucky that this song came to visit me in Vault Studios in Belfast, when I was recording other songs up there with Joshua Burnside. I wrote these words on my phone the morning after an inspiring conversation I’d had with Josh and his friends about grief. They were an attempt to remind myself to be grateful for the people I am so lucky to have around me or to have once had around me.

We were working that day in the studio and I took a break at one point to visit the piano in the dancehall downstairs. I took out my phone and recorded this while writing it, as I put the words to melody, as I put the melody to chords. I feel there’s a special quality to this recording, full of mistakes, full of stops and starts, a plane taking off at a certain point, that makes sense given the sentiment and puts the song in a lopsided frame that I really like.

I hope you enjoy this recording as I did.

Lots of love,

Laura

lyrics

Take this love
I made it for you.
It is yours to hold and keep
forever.
Someday this love will have
nowhere to go
and I will wish that I gave you more.

Your face in the half light,
all angular soft.
It would be weird to tell you now, but
maybe I should.
You’ve only got so many days
to know you’re beautiful.
Only so many days to be told
you’re beautiful.

Take this love
I made it for you.
It is yours to hold and keep
Forever.
Someday this love will have
nowhere to go
And I will wish that I gave you more.

All the jokes you make!
I want to laugh like the sun,
I want to give you all my light
until the day is done.
Your jawline blade glinting in the rays,
Someday my laughter will
echo into space
and you might not hear it.

Take this love
I made it for you.
It is yours to hold and keep
Forever.
Someday this love will have
nowhere to go
and I will wish that I gave you more.

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Written by Laura Quirke.

Recorded on a mobile phone in the dancehall at Vault Artist Studios Belfast 20/09/20

Produced by Laura Quirke and Joshua Burnside
Dancing and Visual by Carolyn Ingram, edited by Lauren Varian

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYLGc-XPq9A

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Laura Quirke Dublin, Ireland

Laura Quirke is a singer, songwriter and musician from Mt Leinster Co. Carlow, based in Dublin Ireland. One half of duo Lemoncello.

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