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Red​-​Eye Effect

by Lowswimmer

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1.
‘Think differently’, the way you are now isn’t what you want, fifty degrees of separation wasn’t far enough, the symmetry, a double-team, I wish I’d undone, but I can’t believe I couldn’t pick up where I saved it from, I don’t belong to anyone else. I can’t be strong for anyone now. It’s a trilogy, can’t we get along? We were sober enough, it’s signalling, I tried to stay up through the goldenrod, why won’t you leave it alone? The drawing board I’d been running from, I can’t believe it’s been 24 hours since I said it, god… …and I’ll leave… I guess you ought to let me down, ‘cus where you are’s not where I’m at. It’s killing me, would you have cared if I’d said I was bored? My deputy, did you get my last call, I could’ve sworn…
2.
Beelining 03:51
Hey, literally, would you run a long, long way out? Like, really beeline? Lean into me, you said it in a cold, cold way, I see what you mean now. It’s gonna be the best that I can do. Is that really the best that I can do? Say, I, where had I come from? Co-sign the weight of my conscience… I can be unmanned if I want, or I can be the best that I can be. I left it on the dashboard, and I was wrong to leave it that long. I can honestly say I am a better man, and if time won’t let you have it, I’ll remember that.
3.
Keep my car on the left side, couldn’t you bail me out? Left mine to stage right, promise you’ll wake me up? Talk in floods, in analog, I can’t be by myself. Leak my blood, come patch me up, I can’t be by myself. Keep eyes on the landslide, wouldn’t you pull me out? Stay tight to the fault line, shouldn’t you stay for now?
4.
Listen 04:25
I panicked, I gave what I got and I landed, I lived on the top of the Atlantic, I’m stranded, all in an ocean of gloss. It’s romantic with my head on the block, my advantage, I gave you the walk of my land but, I’ve had it, I couldn’t accept what I’d lost. So, listen… Where are your standards? You can’t be the lock to my heaven, I won’t let you talk at my wedding, it’s too heavy, and it’ll probably be dead anyway. Where are my manners? You’re welcome aboard my brain. I can’t be the lord of my manor, it’s a shambles, but I’d hardly let love in the way. So, listen…
5.
Memory Card 02:14
Guess I was wrong. “Do you want to overwrite?” I don’t know what you call that phenomenon, water lost to fire, all the rules had gone, it kept me going, it left me golden, man. Your dad was gone, left a long line of his correspondence, “let me bawl”, holding on tight to your memory, god, it kept you going, it left you golden, man.
6.
You left the planet off, saying ‘no I didn’t, no I didn’t know!’. If I switched you off and on would you still feel love and all that other stuff? Would you stall me if I kept unpacking stuff? Would you feel seen if I brought up giving up? You wouldn’t believe me if I said I would’ve let my footing go. They gave me the night off if I swore I wouldn’t call home anymore. I guess the race is on… do you still get shivers? Still get cold enough? Come get me in five, I won’t be alive, I won’t realise, I won’t be long. I won’t realise it too.
7.
Go Getter 02:57
Go-getter, born if I die, bestseller, not in my lifetime, not ever, a keen life-support. Fair-weather, left me behind, come get her, couldn’t if I tried, whoever leaves buys me lunch. It’s gotta be love? It’s your rationale, could you tell time still begets my body? It’s the caramel. In parallels, I still regret not trying, no pressure, ruin my life, go-getter, oh, to be loveable…
8.
Give me a break from the constant ceiling, empty, moonlit. Between the lawless sea walls, I’ve been phoning it all in a little bit. Keep it down there in the guest room, let me out, I wanna see you, oh, I could’ve told you how to bleed through… let me out a minute, let me out into the blue. Couldn’t watch you lean-in without it scoring my skin, out on a limb, could’ve caught you speeding. I didn’t want to butt-in, I can sneak you in again. Terraforming in the guest room quit yawning, it’ll test you, and all eyes mandatory on the reboot, let me out, I wanna see you.
9.
Airlock 03:59
Would you be the little landing light? I shook my head as if I can’t survive… such an idiot, waiting for my tongue to melt. I’m getting into being dead - besides, I nearly spilled the alphabet in your eyes, “love begets love”, well, that doesn’t work, I know… Feeling so much better, lost in all its time, mostly low, I won’t feel it, I won’t, feel it any better, let my orbit slide, mostly low, I won’t feel it, I won’t. I think I feel I’m coming back to life, within an inch of it now, alight.
10.
Millenium 03:40
Redwood, the death tax grew, horsepower, let me loose, skip tracks ‘till I get blue, fashion a kodak noose. Sandbags and Prozac glued to backpacks, couldn’t guess who. Carjacked to your own sad room, the rain broke the screen in two.

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released May 19, 2023

Written and recorded by Ed Tullett, additional songwriting by Jemima Coulter on 'Airlock'

Produced by Ed Tullett
Mixed by Ed Tullett
Mastered by Jeff Lipton. Mastering assistant: Maria Rice
Artwork by Mike Roth

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Lowswimmer Bristol, UK

Ed Tullett has served as a primary songwriter, producer, and contributor across five projects (including Novo Amor and Hailaker). But with Lowswimmer - his first solo endeavour - he invites us into a world crafted from a vision that’s decidedly his own. ‘Red-Eye Effect’ is a collection of songs concerned as much with rearview reflection as they are a hopeful sense of venturing forward. ... more

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