FAWM: "Harringay Station"

Harringay Station

Liner Notes

Been working on a couple of what I'd consider fun tunes today. Ended up for one reason or another abandoning them both and coming up with this. It's a bit sentimental I'm afraid. For some reason I keep falling into these nostalgia pits! Anyway...

#ballad #nostalgia

Lyrics

It was a time when we talked over copper line and I’d fall asleep on the stairs
And I thought we’d feel that way forever
When I said what I said while I waited for my train in the cold at Harringay Station

The days and the nights staring up at the ceiling fan, didn’t know that we didn’t know much
How could we perceive all that we could achieve?
When you joined me to live in that house that was just down the road from Harringay Station

It was like our own penthouse in our own hotel, how long it would last none could tell
Our ignorance was really our strength
And our world such as it was didn’t really extend very far beyond Harringay Station

Comments

@owl 1d

Love the chord change just before “Harringay station”. Lovely lyrics and performance, the storytelling is great. I put this on in the car and my husband said it reminded him of Leonard Cohen.

@thelowestbitter 1d

That piano/synth loop in the background is so nice, and the strings are gorgeous. Vocals once again stunning, you’re on the top of your game this year. Those extra harmonies coming in for “and our woooorld” are fantastic. Love this

@karlsburg25 2d

I adore a nostalgia pit, and this is truly emotionally powerful. I adore the vocal on this, so very expressive and i adore the echo vibe contrasted with the electric piano pulsating through and then the strings and harmonies simply elevate it to a beautiful level. Fabulous work

@jackdawfactories 3d

This is really lovely, sounds like something from a musical.

@sailingmagpie 4d

You've totally nailed the inherent sadness that comes with nostalgia. Love the gradual layering of instruments and those strings are lovely. I particularly liked the lyrics in the lady verse.

@adforperu 4d

Enjoyed the very minor metrick fake-out in that piano line. The vocal is so wistful and the strings just exemplify that fact. Gaawd, the stacked vocals are stunning, what a gorgeous ballad. The outro is wonderful also, feels like a time of reflection. Anya has it with 'warm bath'.

@frenchcricket 4d

Gorgeous. What a warm bath of a song to soak into. Very much like nostalgia in that respect. The thing is with these sorts of songs is that we had a million of them in the 70s, so it would be so easy to fall into cliche but you carve a unique path through the tropes effortlessly, simply by letting your natural strangeness come through (complimentary).

@vomvorton 4d

Ah this is just lovely! Super-effective nostalgic balladry, the harmonies are perfection and it builds so nicely. Love the extended outro, everything has been said but the strings play on ❤️

@tcelliott 4d

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be! There is absolutely nothing wrong with sentimental, especially if it sounds as good as this. The arrangement is perfect, adding just the right touch at each turn. Your vocal seems vulnerable. All the better for the lyric/sentiment. Which, as I've intimated, is excellent here.

@ayais 4d

Urban Fado. Or something I don't recognize, though it's planted in the past and full of lovely feelings. Bittersweetness and time elapsed. Perfect combo and so universal.

@freshspotlessyouth 4d

Love it! Let's not disparage sentiment. You're definitely make me feel something here. I'm getting a bit of a Dream Academy vibe here. I don't know where Harringay Station is...but I know that place nonetheless

@communitykickabout 4d

I like how you frame the place/time around the station - the build up of instruments with the stringy synths than drums works great. The harmonies on the last verse are total bliss. The string outro is amazing, gave me the feels.