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about

The Unicorn song. I gave myself a deadline on this track and
it was the last to get done for the album as I was just sure I
needed one more track. I was dying to make something like
“People Everyday” by Arrested Development or “Me, Myself
and I” by De La Soul. OK, this falls very very wide of that
mark, but the intention was to create something feel-good.
I’d sampled Silver Convention and had this sample waiting
to be used and after a couple of flick-throughs of what I had,
decided that I could make something with it. Believe it or not
it took 9 verses to get this right, though the first one was the
first to be written and never changed. It took on some weird
angles, choruses and ideas getting it to where it is now.
I had “keep having dreams even if no-one believes in them”
written in an “ideas” memo on my phone for a year or so, just
something I wanted to use one day. Ange recorded her part
of the vocals in 10 minutes before rushing out to teach yoga,
having never heard the track or the lyrics before, so fair play
to her! After hearing the track in full she dubbed the ending
my “M Knight Shyamalan-esque album twist”, I really don’t
know what took me down that path. I feel I’d been hinting at
what has been causing my greatest pain throughout the album
(having begun writing the album purely as a way to be positive
through a negative mindset...) and I knew I’d start the last
verse trying to wrap up the album. I recorded that voicemail
off my phone in September 2015 after my Dad had heard the
second Flame Griller album and not many months before we
had to put him into full time care for his dementia. I don’t like
going on about it, I’m not looking for sympathy, people have it
much worse than me, but it’s what’s been kicking my arse for
the longest time.

lyrics

Trying to write a feel good song in bad times/
Trying to look straight ahead but paths wind/
Keep my head up and follow the cat eyes/
Every time I steady the ship, I capsize/
Pastimes pass time and that’s fine/
But zips by and it’s gone and that’s life/
I act like I’m invincible and have time/
Is dementia genetic am I stuck on my Dad’s side?/
Who knows, kudos to you though/
It’s enough waking up without wanting to judo/
Chop...every person who gets in your way/
When you didn’t even wanna bother
getting up today//

CHORUS
But the blues ain’t forever/ x2
Just the usual weather/ x2
This int a foolish endeavour/ x2
We can do it together// x2
Keep having dreams/
Even if no-one believes in them/
Breathe in and be free/
Things aren’t as bleak as they seem/
Keep having dreams/
Even if no-one believes in them/
Breathe out any doubt/
Things aren’t as bleak as they seem//

Trying to write a feel good song but feel crap/
Mental health grabs the top of your noggin and peels back/
Or kicks the heck out of your energy with steel caps/
...Everyone’s self esteem reveals gaps/
But the person in charge is you/
Many simple tasks we can hardly do/
...Waking up in the morning is carnage too/
Wanna kill yourself before you’ve had a brew/
Stop...put the kettle on/
Put some good hip-hop or some metal on/
Don’t put the news or the telly on/
And don’t take any crap from anyone//

CHORUS

Tried to write a feel good song but hate lots/
Posed selfie taking, likes and faceswaps/
Celebrity worship, sycophants, name drops/
That factory they have in hell that makes pop/
If there’s a bad smell people don’t wanna sniff it/
But bad sounds in your ears - people live with it/
You are the product - of what you put in your body/
That’s why everyone seems to cut or they copy/
Couldn’t we probably start again and agree that love for a hobby’s/
A greater purpose than needing people to look at you properly?/
Cos you emulate them and you look like twins/
We get the blues sometimes cos we don’t fit in//

CHORUS

Tried to write a feel good album, guess what?/
It still came out a little jaded and pissed off/
But I did all the production and there’s no guest spots/
And it makes me smile so I gave it my best shot/
I needed this the reason is my recent thing is being miserable/
I’m stuck between this feeling that I’m pitiful/
For not being a stronger individual/
Versus falling apart cos my Dad’s in an assisted living home/
...Cos people have got it worse/
And everybody dies, at least he was there from birth/
At least he was spared the curse/
Of being aware that we are despairing at the unfairness as people
prepare him to leave the earth/...//

credits

from RemarkableUnremarkable (better price on ExP​.​uk), released July 14, 2017
Written, produced, recorded and mixed by Ben “ExP” Goodwin
Mastered by Ben “DivKid” Wilson

Contains samples from:
“San Francisco Hustle” on Silver Convention’s
“Get Up And Boogie” - 1976

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West Yorkshire based hip-hop musician from Flame Griller & Tough Crowd

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