After The Light (Demo)

from Secret Eve (Demos & Rarities) by Tinyfish

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One of a number of tracks that was cut from The Big Red Spark album due to time.

Initially the track had no lyrics but for this record, Robert Ramsay kindly wrote some for the song and Simon recorded them over the original backing track.

lyrics

Born sighted
Complacent
Days all the same
No warning
Sharp impact
Inside the brain
I’m waking
In darkness
It’s light outside
They tell me
I’m lucky
They should have lied…

Sound to sight it
Would be fine
Even sound to touch
Swapping senses
In my mind
This is all too much

<Chorus>
After the light I’m not
The man I was before
I put up such a fight
To lie here on the floor
The space between my hands
Is twenty seconds long
The future races on
Distances all wrong

Born newly
Displacement
I need to learn
When space is
Where time is
How to return

Time and space have
Been replaced
By a puzzle box
Catatonic’s
What they say
‘Just sits there and rocks’

<Chorus>
After the light I’m not
The man I was before
I put up such a fight
To lie here on the floor
The space between my hands
Is twenty seconds long
The future races on
The distances all wrong

Born tenfold
Adjacent
The way to be
By moving
Directions
Time changes key

Time and space have
Been replaced
By a box of toys
I’m the master
Of my fate
Rise above the noise

<Chorus>
After the light I’m not
The man I was before
I put up such a fight
To get up from the floor
The space between my hands
Is twenty million long
The future races on
The distances are gone

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from Secret Eve (Demos & Rarities), released October 25, 2019
Music by Simon Godfrey
Lyrics by Robert Ramsay

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Tinyfish Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tinyfish was formed in 2005 and released their eponymous debut album in 2006. It was their 2009 breakout album The Big Red Spark however, which gave the band wider acclaim. The band split in 2012.

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