Avoiding Being Me

from Avoiding Being Me (single release) by Simon Dwight

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£1 GBP or more
Buy the Full Digital Album
Full Digital Discography

16

releases

Get all 16 Simon Dwight releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Live Big [Be Free], She Said (Gonna Be Here Soon) EP, two : new day dawns, This One's For You ('2: New Day Dawns' LP Promo), You Got ('2: New Day Dawns' LP Promo), Salt and Light Live/Demos (Free to DL), Movin' On LP (2013), The Presence EP, and 8 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

£22.75 GBP or more (35% OFF)

lyrics

Avoiding Being Me

Hello, my friend, please step inside
This world I've found and lived in
For nigh on 40 years now
The highs, the lows, the glories, the sins

I spend a lot of time
Avoiding being me
Yeah, I spend a lot of time forgetting all the things that I've seen.

Come, walk with me for a while
As I show you the towers and the halls
Where voice in song has pierced and echoed
Through the years of time, those roaring falls

See the fresh gardens, bursting with colour
The flowers, the trees, the fields, the mountains
And breathe in the crisp air, fire in your lungs
And come upon the waterfall, the living fountains

Let us run, let us hide, let us seek, let us find
The True Soul, the Heartland, the Peak.
With blue sky, and new rain
Through soul-land, through heart pain

Towards the echoes of time, that walks on ahead
And drags us behind, the future looks chilling
But we've been offered a partnership by the Ancient of Days
We can accept or decline, a new life so thrilling....

I've spent....an awful lot of time... avoiding being me

credits

from Avoiding Being Me (single release), released July 3, 2012
Acoustic and electric guitars, bass, harmonica and vocals : Simon Dwight
Mixing, arranging, engineering and production : Van Gabriel

Written and recorded by Simon Dwight 2012
Great Linford, Milton Keynes, England June 2012
Woodstock, New York City, USA, June 2012

Thanks to all our friends on Soundcloud who offered their support and opinions... especially John Styles, Shoemansky, Broker Jonathan, Colin Crighton, Steph Casey, Michael Charney, Mark Lamm, Mark Blane, Mark J Bennett, Nick Nolan and J Abella.

A special thank you to John Styles for his fine tuning of the arrangements.

Tide Music Productions 2012

license

about

Simon Dwight Milton Keynes, UK

It's all about the guitar.

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact Simon Dwight

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

Simon Dwight recommends:

A Stones Throw From Nowhere
by Sorrow Floats

This is essential Colin Crighton.. from the first moment I heard his blues licks.. I was hooked. Simon Dwight
go to album

If you like Simon Dwight, you may also like:

Movements
by Natalie Evans

The newest release by the classical artist uses harp, guitar, and field recordings to set the tone of the album. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 3, 2022
go to album
A Place Like Home
by Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke

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
go to album
I Used To Be Sad & Then I Forgot
by Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke

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
go to album
Lionize EP
by Take Berlin

featured on Bandcamp Radio Dec 3, 2013
go to album
Invitation
by Michele Stodart

Michelle Stodart’s folk music captures hope in melancholy, addressing the transformational aspects of the most challenging times. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 3, 2023
go to album