The Spire
The story of 'The Spire' is about someone who is in a deep relationship and feels both constrained and grounded in it. Mood swings and periods of intense longing for independence are taking their toll while the internal fight never seems to stop. But often once someone has released the shackles, the new experience and hard won freedom is not as sweet as one had hoped for.
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The symbol of 'The Spire' is modelled on 'The Shard' near London Bridge Railway station in London, UK. It measures 310m tall and has various restaurants and a champagne bar. With its striking appearance as part of the London skyline 'The Shard' becomes 'The Spire' being the metaphor for the partner in the lyrics of the song.
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The song was written by singer Mariia Arkhipova and LTJ. The music was created first and next were the vocals that were improvised using phonetic singing which was recorded onto a smart phone. Lyrics were created by LTJ based on the vocal rhythm and sent to singer Arkhipova who then went to record in the studio in Kyiv, Ukraine. The vocal tracks were inserted in the project and mixed together in London. A typical example of modern on-line musical cooperation.
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The track starts off a little funky while the verses are quite transparent and supported by a melodic bass line. The bridge part is quite rocky and Mariia her vocals remind us of Larkin Poe. The chorus is both rocky and melodic with Mariia's numerous backing vocals adding extra charm here.
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Singer Mariia Arkhipova
Lyrics:
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Verse one:
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Let's say to someone
What I could do
The lights have been rising
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Have me feeling all over the place
And suddenly
Your heart is on the ground
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Enough we are bleeding
To go I was shocked for a moment
It's just how we are fine
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Holding on or break you down
I am rising from the sun
I can put away the moment you were
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Bridge:
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Never rising from every time
My loving man is on my mind
Tell me one thing
It will be radical me
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Chorus (main):
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Until the day I'm dying
Another way I'm crying
And break away, so nervous inside me yeah
I'm falling over and break you down
And suddenly's my heart all around
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Chorus (background):
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I can hold on
I can escape from this moment
And tear us apart
Without finding and knowing, inside
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Verse two:
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Try now to live for the moment
Looking up for the star shining bright
The sound of the men falling over
I can have now your soul, want to stay
The tears I cried
The tears I lost
Analysing from it all
Insist I die
Insist I hope
Rising from it
Got it all
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Tell me baby I.m fending!!I
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ntermediate part:
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Holding the parts and saying
Holding my heart and breaking
And there's a moment I will reach you over
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Shaking down and no one fool around
They gonna take me down
You wanna pick a lock
Oh body down
I want to break it up
I want to make it know
the one that I'll be yeah ah ah
And tell apart and break my heart
Ahahaha yeah and no one know now where to start
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Verse 3:
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I can tell the surrender
Let him tear our love yeah
And before there's the ending
I don't know which way to go
You are the spire!
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