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How The Mighty Have Fallen
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'I lost my senses and found America...'
beatles harmonies folk rock folkpop british expatriate
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Shadowy lyrics,sweet Byrds-like harmonies & keen REM-like counter melodies aplenty from transplanted Englishman, and former Roger McGuinn sideman; a little bit
Shadowy lyrics,sweet harmonies & keen counter melodies aplenty from transplanted Englishman, and former Roger McGuinn sideman; a little bit UK and a little bit USA. If REM hailed from Armthorpe rather than Athens, they might sound a little like this. Maybe not.
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Rock • Folk Rock
Charts
Peak #1,751
Peak in subgenre #78
Author
Steve Robinson
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Steve Robinson BMI
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November 16, 2005
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MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:45
Story behind the song
When we're younger and full of ambition, we sometimes are very tough on ourselves and our perceived failures. Hopefully we get to a point where we are more forgiving. I wrote these lyrics after coming off the road with Roger McGuinn. There I was playing some fantastic venues and doing the Tonight Show and all that, and after it was over there I was playing clubs and bars again in relative anonymity ( hence "...build yourself up just to knock yourself down; first you're eight miles high then you're right back underground, turn, turn, turn around"). It was then that I quit my band and got out of the business for a while. Now, I'm over my burned-out period and making music for the right reasons; all energised if you will. I thought it was appropriate that I opened my CD with this song.
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