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  1. Walk on water

Empty houses have a strange acoustic quality. They resonate with memories, with stories that have parted, but somehow linger. This summer I spent many evenings in one particular house. It had belonged to someone I loved. Now it stood empty, waiting to be sold, waiting for new people to fill it with their stories. As I wandered trough it’s empty rooms I tried to recall every memory that belonged to it’s space. Frantically searching out all the details and oddities, like I was afraid I would lose my memories of the person together with the house.

One night I brought my guitar and a bottle of wine and started singing. The guitar was new and louder than my normal one, the empty rooms made my voice harsher and more plaintive. Like I was begging the walls to share something with me. They kept silent and only threw my voice back to me, with the first lines of this song…

Recording WALK ON WATER was also a bit exceptional. I started singing the first phrase of the song during a rehearsal when pianist and producer David Kops, almost immediately recognized some potential and asked me to stop and keep the song for myself until we were all in the studio and we would be able to record it as we first felt it. And we did. After recording songs for two days we had finished all our planned material so in the last hour of studio time I started playing the song. Everyone fell in, we didn’t discuss much. Drummer Sin Banoviç got us into a good structure almost immediately and everyone just knew what to do instinctively. That night David worked until the morning and came up with this beautiful mix. Lots of things go wrong but this one we got right.

Walk on water was recorded with Marjolein van der Klauw, backing vocals, Sin Banoviç, drums, Sjaak Thissen, bass, Sander Donkers, guitar and David Kops, piano and mix

Lyrics

WALK ON WATER

Someone’s gonna pick up where you left off
someone’s gonna fill them empty shoes
I can see them coming on the horizon
The bloodstained pack off hungry wolves

A bad moon is on the rise
gonna tear through your dead black night
Who’s gonna save me now
who’s gonna show me how

How to stay strong, how to be brave
how to walk on water
How to love someone unconditionally
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They say I should give up and move over
cut my losses and cherish my gains
But I want to hold on to your presence
I’ll make do with what little remains

A bad moon is on the rise
gonna tear through your dead black night
Who’s gonna save me now
who’s gonna show me how

How to stay strong, how to be brave
how to walk on water
How to love someone unconditionally
how to walk on water