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Only a Lifetime

from The Driftwood Project by Jack Badcock

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Track 5 from The Driftwood Project, a five-track EP released one track at a time throughout 2021

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Once upon a time this place
Was very different to today
And so tomorrow we won’t recognise
Our home in many ways
I think destiny’s a cop out of responsibility
It seems that apathy will always be
Our greatest enemy

The present echoes of tobacco fields
Forgotten but still heard
The voice of money of which men who rule
Still hang on every word
The worthy struggle of a suffragette
The planet to inspire
We’re finding it too easy to forget
What’s hanging on a wire

What takes so many lifetimes to show
Takes barely a lifetime to know
It takes only a lifetime to grow

That which once united us to be
More than just an animal
All invested in the same belief
No matter how intangible
So too our modern modes of unity
World Wide Web of instancy
Could yet come to set us all apart
Powerless in ecstasy

What takes so many lifetimes to show
Takes barely a lifetime to know
It takes only a lifetime to grow

In a world built on yesterdays
Some hard to recall
We’ve to look upon our open wounds
If they’re to heal at all
I find it hard to see when I hear
Anyone say
This bird can fly some other day

What takes so many lifetimes to show
Takes barely a lifetime to know
It takes only a lifetime to grow

credits

from The Driftwood Project, track released July 30, 2021
Guitar and vocals - Jack Badcock
Piano - John Lowrie
Drums - Micah Johnston
Bass - Gus Stirrat Music
Trumpet - Loïc Guenneguez
Backing vocals - Little Acres (Rachel Lightbody, Cariss Crosbie and Emilie Boyd)
1st violin - Seonaid Aitken
2nd violin - Benedict Morris
Viola - Patsy Reid
Cello - Su-a Lee

Recorded by Pablo Lafuente
Additional recording by Gus Stirrat
String arrangement by Seonaid Aitken
Mixed by Scott Wood
Mastered by Chris Waite
Cover illustration by Bobby Black

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Jack Badcock Glasgow, UK

Jack has toured extensively around the world, predominantly as frontman and founding member of his multi-award winning, band 'Dallahan'. His solo material showcases his craft of thoughtful lyrics that explore history, cosmology and personal experiences delivered with a musical sensitivity influenced by American folk, funk and soul music as much as traditional music from Britain and Ireland. ... more

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