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If There Were Words (feat. Lauren​)​[​Album Version]

from ZONGS by ZOiD

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about

I started writing this song around 2007 and it stayed on my harddrive as a demo with vocoder vocals for a very long time. In 2020 when I was looking for songs for ZONGS I came across it and decided to find a singer to record it. The singer Lauren was a bass student of mine with an amazing singing voice, we played the song in class and recorded it at the school on an SM58.

The production and mix was seriously overhauled in early 2022 by Liam Grant. You can hear the vast difference between the album version and the earlier released single version :)

lyrics

If there were words that could change your mind
I'd have said them by now
don't like to see you in this state
I want to help but i don't know how

cause you are locked in your path
your decisions brought you all the way here
but i hope you know the way you go
from here is up to you and nobody else

you can run away from the world outside
put on a brave face and you can try to hide
you imagine yourself as someone else
but reality is what is left when all the dreams have melted

but there are times when you change your mind
and i can see you somehow
becoming someone that you hate
becoming someone that you should not allow

you have to put up a fight
and look at everything you ever said
and i hope you know the way you go
from here is up to you and nobody else

you can run away from the world outside
put on a brave face and you can try to hide
you imagine yourself as someone else
but reality is what is left when all the dreams have melted

woah oh
everything will be ok
if i could promise i would now
that everything would turn ok-ay-ay

woah oh
everything will be ok
if i could promise i would now
that everything would turn ok-ay-ay

credits

from ZONGS, released April 8, 2022
Lauren - vocals
ZOiD - production
Liam Grant - mixing, production, mastering

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ZOiD (Irish electronic musician and composer Daniel Jacobson) got into techno in the 90s, but then decided to learn jazz, so he did, and nearly got sucked in to a level-19 jazz black hole, but with a strong effort he escaped and returned to the land of electronic reptillion dancebeats with only the shadow of a trumpet's sax to remember the memory of a time when jazzmen blue horns. ... more

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