what makes me so different?, what makes you think you’re strange?
what makes us so separate from anything that changes?
what makes you so special, then makes you think you’re the worst one?
who made me the goddess, who made me the cursed one?
it’s time, it’s time… why not give ourselves a break?
if we want to be givers we have to learn to take;
it’s just half of an equation, it doesn’t matter what we believe,
if we want to be givers we have to learn to receive
what makes me the bloody saint? what makes you the bad guy?
what makes me so quick to blame when we just don’t see eye-to-eye?
it’s time, it’s time… why not give ourselves a break?
if we want to be givers we have to learn to take;
it’s just half of an equation, it doesn’t matter what we believe,
if we want to be givers we have to learn to receive
and i never believed it when i was younger,
i didn’t understand.
I could not conceive that to love you i must love myself before…
and….
it’s time, it’s time… why not give ourselves a break,
if we want to be lovers we have to learn to take,
it’s just half of an equation, it doesn’t matter what we believe,
if we want to be lovers we have to learn to receive
if you want to be a giver you have to learn to receive;
for a gift to be given the gift must be received
The new EP from Scottish songwriter Alec Bowman_Clarke goes deep, setting vulnerable lyrics to gentle melodies & stripped-back arrangements. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 30, 2021
Alec Bowman perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2020