UPDATED: 15 May 2020
We’ve had an idea and wondered if you’d like to join us in a little project we’re planning.
We’d like to release a remixed version of our song ‘Deep Breath’ with accompanying video, and we’d like to ask you to contribute to the video footage.
The themes of the song are very current with the central ideas being about protest, solidarity, a call for better, happier times and the necessity for change.
We’d like you to submit your footage of anything that you think might be suitable to be included in the video. It could be footage of clapping in your area for the NHS for example. Perhaps footage or photos of gatherings, demonstrations or marches that you’ve been on, children singing together, or maybe your recent experiences of the current nightmare. Anything along the lines of those central themes, or your own ideas that those themes may suggest to you personally, that you think would be suitable to be included.
We’d like you to contribute your footage by Wednesday 20th of May, and we will put something together and then release the video and the song for free on the next Bandcamp Day, which is Friday 5th of June.
Clips of up to thirty seconds can be sent direct on email to thedowlingpoole@gmail.com. Anything longer you’d like us to consider is best sent to the same email address, via WeTransfer.com, which is a free file transfer system for larger files.
Your clips, photo’s, illustrations, animation; all are welcome. High res and 16:9 (horizontal) phone or camera material is best, but all submissions will be considered.
We’d like to make this a real The Dowling Poole ‘community’ effort so please join in if you can.
Love,
Willie & Jon
PS – UPDATED: 15 May 2020
We’ve received a number of emails asking for clarification about what sort of footage to send and whether the lyrics might be available to get ideas from. So, see the lyrics below, and we are open to anything that they might suggest to you.
Lyrics – “Deep Breath” – The Dowling Poole
Some called it reckless – They warned of consequences
Hard wired for helpless – Trapped by their own defences
Lets blame those ugly children
Wise words designed to make no sound at all
Where went those promises?
Who stole that book of dreams to come?
So flat-line your senses now and turn
Before all the engines burn it all away.
The harder they come, the big and the tall
The deeper the bed to cushion their fall
2-3-4 deep breath
United we stand, divided we fall
See the people cripple and crawl
2-3-4 deep breath
Still you’ll get no satisfaction
We hide in smug superior
Then we light up the fires to fuel the cruel
Shame for the laissez-faire neglect
One more cog in a wheel of incompetence (to shield your eyes)
The harder they come, the big and the tall
The deeper the bed to cushion their fall
2-3-4 deep breath
United we stand, divided we fall
See the people cripple and crawl
2-3-4 deep breath
And I can’t get no satisfaction
And all they see glitter is gold for the fools
Like slaves to their own super-cool
The game is done, the wrong side won
There is no change of heart to come
No last reprise, no guarantees
You lost your voice when you disagreed
And all the rhetoric, that got you in a spin
Will take away the only pot you had to piss in
And when the tables turn, as far as you’re concerned
You’ll be the next in a line of weak they come to burn
All we listen for are bells to ring the changes
All we’re wishing for are better days to come
All we listen for are bells to ring the changes
All we’re wishing for are better days to come
All we listen for are bells to ring the changes
All we’re wishing for are better days to come
All we listen for are bells to ring the changes
All we’re wishing for are better days to come – come – come – come – come – come
