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This track was written on the same day as "From One To Whatever". Immediately afterwards, in fact. After a couple of months of not singing at all, my voice hardly knew what was happening to it, but I pushed the vocals out of my comfort zone here, and to my surprise, my voice held up.

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Everything you look at seems to be out of true
You don't know how you came to be here
A distant voice keeps shouting something at you
It's not something you wanted to hear
You're in the whirlwind, caught in the vortex
Hang on to something and hope you're thrown clear

It's proving difficult to put into words
the concepts that you struggled to form
in the unease you used to think was absurd
You've ended up inside the eye of the storm
You're in the whirlwind, caught in the vortex
Now you see how badly you were misinformed

The sky's the limit, that's what the teachers used to say
but now you're stuck here in it, and something's taken the ground away

Stop what you're doing and think
You're teetering on the brink
You either swim or you sink
Everything's going black
because you're under attack
but can you get it all back?

Flat-out denial's not what I'd recommend
it's going to give you contusions
There is no return on all the time that you spend
in drawing faulty conclusions
You're in the whirlwind, caught in the vortex
you need more practical solutions

So, I'm assuming you've some sort of a plan;
it's not like you were caught unawares
Before you take that leap out of the frying pan,
don't count on any help from upstairs
You're in the whirlwind, caught in the vortex
You need to look for more than thoughts and prayers

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from A Grand Adventure, released August 3, 2023

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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