{"id":7193,"date":"2016-10-17T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7193"},"modified":"2025-07-09T05:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:32:56","slug":"voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7193","title":{"rendered":"Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/voice-1024x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/voice-1024x171.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/voice-300x50.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/voice-768x128.jpg 768w, https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/voice.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/voice.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was written as part of a song-writing project at Exeter Arts Centre, collaborating in this instance with Chris  (? &#8211; not sure of the surname now \u2026).&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a surdo (brazilian samba drum) and wanted to do something different with it. I improvised the words while we played around with the rhythm, and found myself writing about a very dark period in my life, ten years or so earlier, when I lost my will to live. Thankfully some truly amazing friends were there to carry me when I couldn&#8217;t walk, and encourage me to stand again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dedicated to the wonderful Stuart Lindeman, without whom I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d be here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voice<br>Voice in the soul<br>A voice in the soul, my soul, says:<br>Jump<br>Jump<br>Jump into a new name, into a new life<br>A name of danger, a life of pain<br>A new land<br>Freedom, freedom to cause pain<br>The name is pain to those who reach out, to those who hold<br>Pain, in the heart<br>Pain, on the back of the hand<br>Cigarette burn on the back of the hand<br>burning the flesh<br>Tears of rage, of love, or rage, of love, of rage, of love<br>Enough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voice<br>Voice in the soul<br>A voice in the soul, a madman&#8217;s soul, says:<br>Leap<br>Leap into the dark, into the void<br>Look<br>Look for danger and then leap<br>Leave behind the safety, leave behind the friends<br>Leave behind the love, and rage, and love, and rage, and love, and rage, and love, and rage<br>Enough, enough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He walks into the room, my room<br>I can still see the tears in his eyes, the sleepless nights<br>Because of the things that I have done<br>Because of the pain that I have caused<br>Because of a memory of a time before a voice<br>A voice of temptation<br>A voice of seduction<br>A voice of rage, my rage, his love, my rage, his love, my rage, his love, my rage, his love<br>My rage is so strong, too strong<br>His love, his love is not enough<br>Not enough<br>His love is not enough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written as part of a song-writing project at Exeter Arts Centre, collaborating in this instance with Chris (? &#8211; not sure of the surname now \u2026).&nbsp; I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7536,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions\/7536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}