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(We Used To Talk For) Hours

by Branch to Root

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I wrote this track back in late 2019. I had been off work due to stress/anxiety for a couple of months. I felt incredibly disconnected from myself and found myself unable to take pleasure in anything. I struggled to write anything and barely had the motivation to pick up an instrument. I just didn’t feel like myself at all. One afternoon I managed to muster up the will power to try and put how I was feeling down on paper. As time went on, I spoke to my doctor, got on some medication, made a career change and started looking after myself. When I was feeling better and more myself I revisited the song and really wanted to sculpt it into a full band track. In hindsight what I wrote was unintentionally very self reflective, I remember thinking about something I read about negative self talk, that ‘you wouldn’t talk to a friend like that so why yourself’. So hours is sort of a conversation between different versions of me. The version who spent hours lying on a couch staring at the walls and the person I was before and after that episode. I think of the coexistence between these parts of me, not being afraid to acknowledge I was struggling. Hours is me trying to accept myself more at my low points, not just my high points.
Stephen McGinty

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You told me to speak with your ghost
To get the things off my chest that I didn’t say before you were gone
And I, I could talk for hours
And we, We used to talk for hours

Now when I see you standing with your favourite flowers
I retrace my steps to figure out how I got here
I trigger all the traps I set myself
That I designed to try and keep you out
Let’s face the fact that I’ve been so unwell
Help me

I’ve been angry for months now I can’t connect the dots to find out why
I can’t escape the bed I made, I’m so sick of telling people that I’m alright
It’s been hanging over me for months now, like nothing I have known before
Thought if I were to write it down it might get easier to ignore

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released April 30, 2021
Written and Performed by Branch To Root.
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Bobby Pook.

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Branch to Root Liverpool, UK

Founded in 2015 as a personal project between friends, the band has developed an extensive and eclectic discography. Described in a Louder Than War review as being full of “fuzz, melody, and passion,” the record showcased their cohesive-but-oscillating approach to songwriting that has earned comparisons to bands as diverse as Basement, Death Cab For Cutie, and Manchester Orchestra. ... more

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