The Pigeon

from Positive Songs by Granfalloon

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Deadline: Wed 15th April 2020

Recorded for the Positive Songs Project. A challenge to write a positive song every week.

Inspired while clapping from my window. I thought I saw a dove. It turned out to be a pigeon. Sometimes reality is all we have and sometimes that's good enough to work with. Who needs unicorns when we have rhinos?

It was wonderful to have my Positive Songs co-founder, Lobelia, contribute piano and vocals to this track as well as her partner Steve Lawson who is one of the most prolific and celebrated bassists in the UK! He provides a Zapp-bass that has the most funk this side of a Primus laundry basket...

Rounding out the collaborations, Adrian from Hello Cosmos and Deathretro played the supersexyspiky guitar on this as well.

lyrics

Come and see the doves
At the window ledge
There is hope
On the outside

In a world of wonder
Who needs fantasy
In a world of wonder
Believe in you and me
Who needs unicorns
When we've got rhinos?
Who needs doves
When we've got pigeons?
Who needs angels
When I've got you?

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from Positive Songs, released August 27, 2021
Richard Lomax - vocals/beats/organ/acoustic guitar/synths/Omnichord
Lobelia Lawson - vocals/piano
Steve Lawson - bass
Adrian Ingham - electric guitar
Andy Lyth - drums

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Granfalloon Manchester, UK

Manchester based composer and recordist. Lo-fi. Folk. Psych. Songs. Unusually long neck for a man my height.

Contact: info@granfalloonmusic.com

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