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what if we won

by VerseChorusVerse

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I invite conversation nuanced approach means a smile when leaving humane respect for human emotion a killer smile & eyes that see heaven love untold won't save a soul find your place speak the truth all that I seek is within me already a perfect love forever happy endings meditation a diet of restrictions self discipline one with everything
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we are free to decree if we are she or he or they we are perfectly entitled to be straight, bi, lesbian, trans or gay we are fully within our rights to take to our knee should we so choose we are human beings and our rights you will not refuse this is what it looks like on the right side of history
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there is a silence inside me & I try to give myself to it even for just a moment some kind of auditory respite from the noises that sing daily and the sentiments that will try to down me I know that the silence is willing & I think that it may do me good & prove a worthy & healthy distraction to the alternatives previously described but I know too I must be careful because with the silence comes a mirror & with all mirrors come a reflection face to face with imperfection I must stare down my own self, my self I must stare down my own self there is a silence inside me & it is neither opponent or co-conspirator I can spend years trying to find it it proves unwilling to be summoned easily & then one day it takes hold without forethought or warning it chokes out every last decibel of sound & places me in the centre of its vacuum something wished for but never wanted I have little other choice but to learn its lessons or succumb to the same fate as sound for here is a still vibration, a flattened peak, & a circle squared here is an empty nation; bringing peace yet waging war the mirror is now unbreakable I must stare down myself I must stare down myself I must stare down myself
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I live with a monster its trying to kill me I live with a monster looks just like me I live with a monster its never through putting me down I live with a monster convinced me nobody wants me around I live with a monster eating me like rust I live with a monster tells me its the only one to trust I live with a monster sometimes hibernates I live with a monster somehow always wakes I live with a monster it wasn't always here I live with a monster seems forever near I live with a monster & I don't know what to do I live with a monster but I know that it came from u
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they say the gates of hades are open night & day smooth is the descent & easy is the way spending all our time stating at screens any wonder all my friends are as fucked up as me? spending all that time staring at screens? you bet all my friends are as fucked up as me! I wear my sleeve on my chest & wear my chest on your sleeve a path will clear a day will dawn cliched mantras with good reason well worn I pull the curtains face the sunlight I feel the warmth & the promise of what might I still cry daily but more and more with a smile recovery takes time all good things take a while sad songs sad songs sad songs sad songs battle stations hold off the hold up take them alive they left us for dead sad songs sad songs sad songs sad songs still make sense but carry less weight in the present tense battle stations hold off the hold up take them alive they left us for dead these scenes they gotta be seen right up there on the big wide screen
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what if things turned out alright this time what if what if we won what if we held those wrong to rights what if what if we won what if we survive our longest night & rise up like the sun what if we make the darkness light what if we won take this hope & believe it its true take these words & then speak them its true I know we'll succeed what if we held those wrong to rights what if what if we won what if we survive our longest night & rise up like the sun what if we make the darkness light one day our day will come take this hope & believe it its true take these words & then speak them its true I know we'll succeed
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Be Proud 03:34
stand up walk tall face front be proud don't hate just love what's more speak up be brave don't fear breathe deep hands out be strong love all be proud your love be proud our love be proud one love all love mindful heart full hopeful beautiful come one come all coming sweating breathing heaving loving its begun it be fun we be proud we be one too late they can't stop this it's too late they're just jealous come on come on you know we got this everything is here everything is ours everything is here everything is ours stand up walk tall face front be proud don't hate just love what's more speak up be brave don't fear breathe deep hands out be strong love all be proud your love be proud our love be proud one love all love mindful heart full hopeful beautiful come one come all coming sweating breathing heaving loving its begun it be fun we be proud we be one too late they can't stop this it's too late they just jealous come on come on you know we got this don't let don't let them change you
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lord won't you give me some peace I'm so tired I feel like going home I'm so tired but I can't sleep oh lord won't you give me some peace

about

My new record, here it is.

This is my 4th solo album; making 7 in total including the first two And So I Watch You From Afar records and The Tragedy of Dr Hannigan debut album.

I wrote and recorded this album by myself - even down to the minimalist artwork - making it the most DIY project I have undertaken. Which, after my first book and audiobook, is saying something…if I do say so myself, and I just did.

I, like all of us, was in Lockdown for the vast majority of last year. I had just moved to a new city (Glasgow) after spending several months in isolation in an Italian mountain village (Cassalatico). Bear with me...

The year before a close friend, Robert, took his life. Sadly not the first friend I have lost this way. I had worked closely with him, one of the greatest songwriters I’ve ever met, and the night he was announced as missing, I was obliviously launching my book. My book was dedicated to Stevie Martin and Scott Hucthison; two other amazing songwriters who parted this way.

Although I wasn’t; I felt partly responsible - like I should've been there for Robert more - and I fled Belfast and my friends as I tried to deal with this trauma, plus to escape my past that was hanging heavy that year.
Convinced I was on the same path as my friend; I was asking serious questions about my own life, I had a need to hit reset.

After months also alone in Italy, I moved into my new Scottish flat, & another close friend took their life, Andy - whom I had known since he was 13 - we heard the news Christmas morning, & shortly thereafter...well, a pandemic hit.

The combination of the trauma of losing two friends in this manner plus the low lying anxiety that was eating us all in the background, led me to a lot of shadowy corners that all seemed to end up in the darkest of places.
I feared I was doomed to the same fate. It seemed unescapable.

All the while, the World was confined indoors due to COVID, yet somehow the world outside literally burned around us; forest fires raged and so did we as we saw US Police Officer Derek Chauvin murder George Floyd, whilst an overtly racist and corrupt President stood in the White House goading them on. The UK crashed out of Europe as another Racist stood in the Downing St halls of power in the UK, both wearing their lies as Teflon armour. All of this highlighting the deeply ingrained systemic Racism that was somehow the norm.
Those fires in the forests soon independently started in the cities too.
Protests multiplied and spread like an obvious metaphor.
We all felt powerless and we vocalised our frustrations through the echo chamber sanctuaries of social media; whilst FB, Twitter, Instagram etc profited (& continue to do so) from our malaise and misery as our values get put through the meat grinder of their ad revenue driven algorithms.
At times it really did feel like the end. How had we allowed it to get so far?

In an attempt to pull some sense of control into my life and how it was unfolding after much too long in near complete isolation, I started recording music again.
I started to not feel as powerless.
I was in a dark place, but something inside me flipped and I had enough of standing in the dark. Hiding.
Suddenly the possibility of positivity seemed with reach. I didn’t dwell too much on it, and just kept working, writing, sifting through trauma, creating and basically by doing what felt natural to me.
The result, is this record.
Probably the closest I’ve ever been to making a concept record - its a clear journey from start to finish.

This album is for everyone who has ever felt silenced, it is for those of us that felt disconnected through no fault of their own; it is for the “losers” now, later to win. For the dreamers. For all of us.
Make no mistake, we’re not they’re yet - but we’re closer everyday if we want to be.
There is no question about it.

what if we won.

T.Wright 5/5/21

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released May 21, 2021

written , performed , produced, mixed & mastered by Tony Wright

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