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Careless Memories

from Careless Memories by Blake Cateris

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Through the lockdowns in 2020, I started up a requests system where I’d learn anything and everything people threw at me in return for a fee to help cover expenses since I couldn’t work. I discovered some amazing new music this way and one of the songs that came my way was Duran Duran’s Careless Memories.
While I was reading through the lyrics, I discovered how beautifully brilliant and well crafted they were - like I was reading poetry. Only to then be thrust on top of an upbeat 80’s pop rock song, I could hear it almost instantly: how good of an opportunity it was to put these lyrics to a more sombre and exposed arrangement.
There’s a beautiful element of truth in this song for me as it constantly throws me back into the thralls of my last relationship and the grieving process thereafter.

lyrics

So soon, just after you've gone, my senses sharpen
But it always takes, so damn long
Before I feel how much my eyes have darkened,
Fear hangs a plane of gun smoke
Drifting in our room, so easy to disturb
With a thought with a whisper
With a careless memory,

And on the table, signs of love lie scattered
And the walls break, with a crashing within
And it's not as though, as though you really mattered
But being close how could I let you go
Without some feeling, some precious sympathy following,
Fear hangs a plane of gun smoke
Drifting in our room, so easy to disturb
With a thought with a whisper
With a careless memory,

I walk out into the sun, I try to find a new day
But the whole place it just screams in my eyes
Where are you now 'cause I don't want to meet you,
I think I'd die, I think I'd laugh at you, I know I'd cry
What am I supposed to do follow you,
Fear hangs a plane of gun smoke
Drifting in our room, so easy to disturb
Outside the thoughts come flooding back now,

I just wanna forget you
I just wanna forget you
I just wanna forget you
I just wanna forget…

credits

from Careless Memories, track released February 24, 2022
Written by Duran Duran
Arranged & Performed by Blake Cateris
Engineered, Produced & Mixed by Daniel Antix at Def Wolf Studios
Mastered by George Georgiadis at Little Wing Sound

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Blake Cateris Sydney, Australia

Sydney Singer/Songwriter inspired by the likes of Butch Walker, Frank Turner, Laura Jane Grace as well as a slew of local Australian talent of the likes of Chasing Ghosts, Ruby Fields, Tiarnie, Jethro Morris... the list goes on.

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