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Sit By The River

from Everything Changes by The Speed Of Sound

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    Limited edition, signed and numbered first pressing, heavy 170g vinyl LP with glass pressed double CD set
    Plus - a 297x297mm insert poster, a double-sided A4 poster and a full colour inner sleeve with the lyrics to all twenty songs.
    LP run time 34’:04” total CD run time including bonus songs 76’:46”

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Sit By The River
This one started life in July 1984, the original tune was languid and slow and just a bit too wistful, it was given a revamp for the 2nd album in 2011 and has been in the live set from the reanimation. It changed again since then and like everything else still keeps evolving. There is no specific river in mind it’s made up from several, but the swans are from the Thames at Staines where my aunt lived. This was rerecorded during the Everything Changes sessions, at SSR and Bryn Elwy

The bonus tracks:
Evolution and change is an important aspect of The Speed Of Sound, from the beginning the plan was for the bonus disc to reflect the way a selection of the songs from the back catalogue on the current live-list were currently being played

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Sit By The River

Fallen leaves float down the river
Sweep the past aside
The weeping-willow cries discreetly
Tears for our lives
The grass that sways in lazy sunshine
Never asking why
As afternoon drifts into evening
Through my half-closed eyes
The setting sun is slowly sinking in a blood orange sky
The shadows reach my fingertips and hover for a while

I'm going to sit by the river where the swans glide by
I'm going to sit by the river or maybe lie
I'm going to sit by the river and close my eyes

Darker shades of summer madness
Drifting through my mind
Filling me with thoughts of sadness
Of things I can not find
Water glides past stepping stones
Not holding back the flow
The river goddess singing softly
To the cooling meadow
Watching colours in the sky
As visions come and go
The clouds slide by as silent watchers
Of the play below
Resting in the mellow evening of your afterglow
A gentle breeze sighs through the trees leaving me alone

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from Everything Changes, released December 6, 2016

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The Speed Of Sound UK

"Unique and other worldly"- Vive Le Rock!
"New Wave Post-Punk blood powered by a heartbeat of 1960's influences"- Louder Than War.

The Speed Of Sound are:
John Armstrong guitar/vocals, AnnMarie Crowley - vocals/percussion, Kevin Roache - bass guitar & John Broadhurst - drums,

Based in Manchester UK. Unfettered, unchained & independent since 1989.
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