She Darks Me

by Joe Chester

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released 03 October 2011
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Credits

All songs written by Joe Chester except “Most of the Time” by Bob Dylan.
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The Musicians

Binzer : Drums and percussion
Trevor Hutchinson : Electric and double bass
Joe Chester : All guitars, keyboards, percussion and vocals
Steve Wickham : Violin
Mickey Raphael : Harmonica

All the musicians on this album merit the words, “The Great”, either before or after their names. I feel very fortunate to have been able to work with musicians like Trevor, Steve and Mickey, who bring such grace and sensitivity to their work. And with Binzer, a man of unstinting loyalty and friendship who played drums in one of my first bands, The Sound of Bells. He was great then, but he never stops growing.

Recorded at Joe’s Place, Marguerite Studios and The Jam Factory, Dublin.
Photography and design by Julie Bienvenu.

Acknowledgements

Rosemary, Sara, Mark, Julie (The Quiet Room), Mike Scott, Demelza deBurca, Nadine O’Regan, Brian Brannigan, Gemma Hayes, Alison Curtis, Anton Hegarty, Tin Charm, adotldots, All at Cauldron Recording, Sinéad Troy and all at IASCA, Joe Snr., all the Barretts at home and abroad, Ann Scott, Neil, Nick and All the Yeats band and crew, Nam June Paik, Orwell Wheelers and Charlie.

Online:

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One of the most critically acclaimed and beloved of Irish singer-songwriters, Joe Chester has won glowing plaudits from all ... more the right places and received a Choice Music Prize nomination plus a nod for Best Irish Male in the Irish Music Awards for his 1st album A Murder of Crows. The Irish Independent called his 2008 single ‘Maybe this is Not Love’ Irish single of the year. less

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Track Name: The Middle Distance
Night blooming jasmine,
Sistine chapel face,
A face that’s taking names,
And calling this house to order,

Love like a drunken swell,
Falling down,
Among the lost and the escaped,
Dogs and circus clowns,
When it picks you up and spins you around.

I tried to catch them by surprise,
The sleeping, wild, animal eyes,
But they focus on the middle distance these days,
And I know that’s where I’m going to stay.
Track Name: Anything in the Long Run
Your love is like the late December no-man’s land,
It’s cold,
The sun is just a searchlight,
You haven’t called,
I haven’t seen you for days,
I think I made you up.

But even if you lead me on,
It’s a drug I’m depending on,
It’s supposed to hurt if it’s going to be worth,
Anything in the long run,
So lead me on,
Till the hurt is gone.

The shards of glass swept across the only path,
Back to you,
The car crash diamonds on the coal,
They cut the soul,
Nothing can stop the flow,
Of the inside coming out.

But even if you lead me on,
It’s a drug I’m depending on,
It’s supposed to hurt if it’s going to be worth,
Anything in the long run,
So lead me on,
Till the hurt is gone.
Track Name: Napoleon Bonaparte
I couldn’t change your mind,
I tried to keep you at a distance,
But you should never be surprised,
After all you know when blood,
Hot with victory,
Meets with hearts cold with loss.
You know they shatter into pieces,
And you’ve got nothing left but glass.

Because I didn’t love you right from the start,
You want to blow this whole prison apart,
Some people run for years and never get caught,
I guess I didn’t know you as well as I thought.

Willing prisoner,
That you released so long ago,
With your principles so high,
But your tactics so low
You’ve got to keep your disappointments,
Close to the surface,
Every muted defeat
That you keep hidden inside,
The cracking mirror underneath.

Because I didn’t love you right from the start,
You want to blow this whole prison apart,
Some people run for years and never get caught,
I guess I didn’t know you as well as I thought.
Track Name: Foreign Correspondent
Every second is a year,
And every day,
Another ice age,
When your love turns cold.

And life is like erosion,
Reflected in the iris,
Of a time-lapse lens,
When your love turns cold.

Ghostwriter,
She’s not your girl anymore,
And you’ve taken a fall,
A foreign correspondent in your own home.

Every time you made a break,
Hiding the tears,
You couldn’t make it stick,
A surrender.

And how you measure all your love,
Advancing and retreating,
Like an ocean,
A surrender.
Track Name: Acid Rain
Add up all that I don’t know,
About you and you about me,
The space between us grows and grows,
All the little infinities.

Your eyes are full of acid rain,
And your love’s a spinning wheel,
You’re trying to get a hold on things,
That are just too soft to feel.

So you try to stop me loving you,
It’s just taking too much out of you,
You can say it any way you want, it took what it took,
But sometimes love feels worse than it looks.

But I just want to see you every day,
I’ve been waiting for so long,
Hoping you would find your way,
That I ended up losing my own.

Now you couldn’t love me if you tried,
Like an icicle through the heart,
You’ve seen me from the other side,
And your love just falls apart.

So you try to stop me loving you,
I can try but I can’t get through,
High hopes in the beginning when you thought it was good,
But sometimes love doesn’t feel like it should.

With every day that passes without,
I still get mesmerized,
By the poison on your mouth,
And the acid in your eyes.

So don’t try to stop me loving you,
If it’s taking so much out of you,
You can have it anyway you want, leave it or not,
But sometimes love is all that we’ve got.
Track Name: Heart of Stone
Dancing in the gaslight,
A blanket on the floor,
Making every day seem,
A little leftover,
The dust that covers everything,
Circling the heart,
And in every night sky,
A few less stars.

Heart of stone leave me alone,
I can’t say no,
I’ve got more love,
Than I could ever control.

Love was like a crash,
A prizefighter’s song,
It filled your ears with noise,
The survival of the strong,
Now love is falling water,
Something that you always knew,
Opening the door,
To a quiet room.

Heart of stone leave me alone,
I can’t say no,
I’ve got more love,
Than I could ever control.

And now there is no night,
And no sudden start,
Just a light,
That beats in time to a resting heart.
Track Name: Mercy Killer (Born to Deceive)
I recognize,
The murder in your eyes,
But you’ve got a fight,
On your hands.

Profit and loss,
A victim and a thief,
The start and the end,
And whatever’s in between.

A shadow of love,
Far from the heat,
Out on the edge,
Circling in.

Villain of the piece,
You’ve got the motive and the means,
And the opportunity,
Mercy killer, born to deceive.

It’s hard to pretend,
The heart begins to bruise,
It’s not meant to last,
As long as it used to.

Like something you forgot,
That I could not refuse,
A killing match
That you expect to lose.

A shadow of love,
Far from the heat,
Out on the edge,
Circling in.

Villain of the piece,
You’ve got the motive and the means,
And the opportunity,
Mercy killer, born to deceive.
Track Name: Love, but Nothing More
Hide the cracks and change your name,
You be me and I’ll be you,
It’s such a shame,
We can’t be friends and honest too,
Laid on like the gas,
And getting harder to ignore,
When a recluse on the town,
Gives you love but nothing more.

And brings you happiness,
Then takes it away,
And you thought love was here to stay,
It’s easy to lose,
And hard to get back when you do,
Stay tough,
And make the most of what you’ve got.


Dancing up the climb of love,
When you’ve been coasting downhill,
(Until now),
Like role reversal,
I’ll be you and you’ll be me,
I stumble, I fall down,
Somewhere I’ve never been before,
When a recluse on the town,
Gives you love but nothing more.

And brings you happiness,
Then takes it away,
And you thought love was here to stay,
It’s easy to lose,
And hard to get back when you do,
Stay tough,
And make the most of what you’ve got.
Track Name: Drawn in Chalk
I’m not tired,
But darling we’ve lost the fire,
I’ll be inside,
When you feel like coming in.

Heartburn,
Will leave no stone unturned,
And this truth-less war,
Doesn’t matter anymore.

All in good time,
We’ll fill the holes you used to escape,
The emergency,
Intimacy,
Never really mattered much to me anyway.

An emergency,
When your love got tired,
And someone always wins,
When you lose the fire.

In our belief career,
I thought that love was square,
Drawn on the ground,
Of a backyard in my mind.

All in good time,
We’ll fill the holes you used to escape,
The emergency,
Intimacy,
Never really mattered much to me anyway.

Always rain
When I look the other way,
You tell me that all we had,
Was a love that was drawn in chalk.