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Blind as the river

from Some kind of emptiness by Anphortas

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about

I got home tired and late on night, picked up my guitar and played Am Dm chords and this song came to me straight away. In 20 minutes I had the first two verses and had recorded them on a small recorder I use. I went to the bathroom and by the time I came out I had the third verse, then did a recording of the whole song. That all took about 30 minutes. The song expresses pretty much how I felt about life in that moment and apart from adding drums, bass and lead the song is pretty much the same as that first version.

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I stumble through my days
And wander through my years
As blind as the river
As hungry as a beggar
And silent as the lizard
That slithers in the desert
I want to see
I want to see again
I want to hear the voice
The voice
The voice
That left me in this dark
From which I cannot rise
I cannot rise
I cannot rise
I cannot rise

The rumble of the train
That passes by the window
A million destinations
As again I press my thimble
To make the stitch in time
To save me from
This decay and crumble
I want to see
I want to see again
I want to hear the voice
The voice
The voice
That left me in this dark
From which I cannot rise
I cannot rise
I cannot rise
I cannot rise

A world of greedy tigers
Encircle my horizons
My lover’s sweet embraces
Tie me in twists and tangles
Abandoned in this night
From which I see no dawn
I want to see
I want to see again
I want to hear the voice
The voice
The voice
That left me in this dark
From which I cannot rise
I cannot rise
I cannot rise
I cannot rise
I cannot rise
That left me in this dark
From which I cannot rise
I cannot rise
I cannot rise
I cannot rise

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from Some kind of emptiness, released September 20, 2021
Written, performed and recorded by Adam Blight

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Anphortas Sheffield, UK

Anphortas is the music project of Sheffield based musician, painter, fencing coach and guitar maker Adam Blight. Songs sort of drop out of the air, what to do with all these songs? As I got involved in music making, I sought to make my songs more real and tangible and to get recorded versions that sounded how I could hear them in my mind. Now they seem to sound how I imagined they would. ... more

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