The Eighth Day

by Hector Gannet

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It’s all about perspective really, what we deem to be of great (or little) significance, where we as individuals fit in, how and where some arguably find the answers to life’s questions, or at least where they find comfort in the midst of great uncertainty, and how that can vary dramatically from being to being. It was partly inspired by a childhood memory of staring at the night sky for a period of time and suddenly feeling extremely overwhelmed and frightened at the enormity of it all. It was a realisation that there are far greater things out there, bigger than I could comprehend. Moments like that make you realise how insignificant you are, and yet how fragile and precious life is.

lyrics

Lyrics:

Be it my maker in the lense?
It all depends,
Does the night depict the start
Or prophesize the end?
While tethered shepherds
Draw the shoots and drag in the tide
I wonder what lies
Inside the hole in the sky.
From under, is it I
Who cuts the cord?

Picture your house
With a cross upon the door
Beds of flowers in the fore
When the cloak is down
And the crowd want more
That's when the eighth day will dawn.

Can it solve the living crisis?
Put to rest the hungry eyes?
Does the mammoth of the slum
Become the elephant in the high-rise?
Now a carriage is awaiting
And the beast is newly shod
Beating threats of the necropolis,
The umbilicus of God.
Any more clay from the kickers?
Any news from the front line?
What lies inside that hole in the sky?
I wonder, is it I
Who began to bore?

Picture your house
With a cross upon the door
Beds of flowers in the fore
When the cloak is down
And the crowd want more
That's when the eighth day will dawn.

Picture your house
With a cross upon the door
Sunday's temple
For Saturday's poor
When the curtains close
And they call out for more
That's when the eighth day will dawn.

credits

released March 8, 2022
Recorded with Alex Blamire at Polestar Studios, Byker.
Mixed by Paul Gregory.

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Hector Gannet North Shields, UK

North Shields born singer/songwriter Aaron Duff, works both solo and with full band under the name Hector Gannet.

hectorgannet.com

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Oct 24

Rough Trade Nottingham

Nottingham, UK
Nov 23

Playhouse, Whitley Bay

Whitley Bay, UK
Nov 23

Playhouse, Whitley Bay

Whitley Bay, UK
Nov 26

The Georgian Theatre

Stockton-on-tees, UK
Dec 15

The Brickyard

Carlisle, UK

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