This one wasn’t written in one go. I wrote part of it a few days ago and struggles so I put it aside. I know I wanted to keep what I wrote and so I resumed from there.

During the second go I did a bit of pausing and rewinding. Overall what I did isn’t in the spirit of these challenges and I’m not entirely sure it helped. However, I was able to flesh this out a bit more than had I hadn’t, so… yeah.

Talk Talk’s “April 5th” is from The Colour of Spring.

I hope you enjoy.

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Percussion shuffles and shakes, and some other sounds seem to float in just before vocals and keys sit upon that float. The atmosphere feels dark in a sense, but it does not feel claustrophobic. It feels, perhaps, dry.

The vocals, spaced and sparse give way for one of the other sounds to raise high and then slower, and then drift and linger on a note. Piano returns, marking melody and the vocals seem to layer on into the sounds. Something akin to strings starts filling out space, rising and building to something intense before releasing into a plane of peace and stillness. A moment, perhaps, of relief, expressing small beauties. The sounds are gentle and minimal, and the vocals only mark brief moments before returning to the opening verse.

The familiar melody now has other sounds hovering and buzzing, and flickering here and there, and it holds space in its hands, and it continues to do so when it moves to that linger through to the sound of strings rising before falling away, and that calm joyousness. It feels emotional, and it feels like a release of sorts, and the vocals become more prominent as a sound, as does bass, and in this moment there perhaps is a sadness, but it doesn’t feel sad. It feels expressive, and warm, and in the moment. It feels firmly in the moment, still within time, still within its surroundings, and it gradually all fades away, fading into silence and the song ends.