Seventeen Things, by James Riley

Seventeen Things

by James Riley

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	1.	Seventeen Things 03:23	lyrics	buy track
	Seventeen things, I have to make a list I can't remember all the names that you gave me The colour of a candle, flavour of a kiss You haven't got a prayer you know that you could lend me? Taking notes I write down everything you say As if I'd brought it down from off the mountain range Heavy words, the sounds, they always end with rain It only ends when I decide I am no wiser Give me a sign That it will be alright And if that cannot be bought then give me time I change my spots for simple colours every night I'll change my mind again until I know it's right A spit into a promise when you close your fist I prefer it when we trust our own honour Celebrating always when you take the gifts If you count the thoughts the present's much closer Now I know it's right to cry Or close my eyes when you reply And I've got all my life to find the reasons that we left behind A simple love never regrets A simple love never forgets

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A single to keep the site ticking over.

Written back in 2014, this is a love song about lists, and particularly thinking of a list of reasons why we're in love (or, as it was at the time, about to get married), and particularly how most of the list doesn't matter in that instance, at least, aside from the obvious.

The cover art is a stylised selection of sixteen Canadian gins and one Edinburgh gin we sampled / annihilated over the past five years. Not all to the same scale but almost all to the same deliciousness.

I recorded this in Canada, and finished the mix off after moving back to the UK. I hoped to have another A-side to add but that will have to wait for a future release.

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released May 20, 2021

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