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Gone to France [single]

by Red Velvet

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The themes of Red Velvet’s new single, Gone to France, are once again love and separation. But while their previous single, Your Lovelight, was upbeat and optimistic, this one is more dramatic, with a strong sense of sadness. Band member Mike Udin wrote the song to reflect the deeply felt emotions of hope, longing and despair he experienced as a result of his forced separation from his partner. The song contrasts a sense of fate and helplessness (“choices lead to consequences, mean you have to go”) with the joyful, eternal optimism that love can bring (“there is no cost, there’s nothing lost, and I love you more and more and more…”. Listen out for Deirdre Murphy’s powerful vocal delivery and Gene Thunderbolt’s haunting keyboard.

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GONE TO FRANCE

1)
With another time to know you, with another time to care
I would still be here alone, I guess, and you would still be there
You can throw away a lifetime feeling sorry for yourself
But the only way to help you is for you to help yourself

CHORUS
And you’ve gone to France, taken a chance that you never really took before
And there is no cost, there’s nothing lost that you ever had before
So you’ve gone to France, taken a chance that you never really took before
And there is no cost, there’s nothing lost ‘cause I love you more and more and more

2)
I regret that you are leaving, I regret you will not stay
And so nothing really changes I regret my life away
And I grasp at indecision, knowing only that it lies
And the path you take is chosen as the other choices die

CHORUS

M8
We dream of a future perfect, but we live in a present tense
With the ghosts of past relationships and habits of defence
And the undiscovered future none of us can know
Choices lead to consequences, mean you have to go

3)
Do I come to disillusion, do I come to what is real?
Can we ever talk of meanings or of all the things I feel?
Knowing only every moment, never knowing total time
I can’t tell you what will happen, but I guess it will be fine

CHORUS

credits

released October 6, 2023
Deirdre Murphy - lead vocals
Les Ray - bass
Mike Udin - guitar
Gene Thunderbolt - keyboard
Colin R. Smith - drums

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Dan Wilde at Gladeside Recordings, Bar Hill, Cambs.
Artwork by Naomi Randall

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Red Velvet Cambridge, UK

Red Velvet are all about Deirdre Murphy's passionate vocals, Les Ray's thoughtful, hard-hitting songs and Gene Thunderbolt's virtuoso musicianship.

Red Velvet will move you, make you want to move and make you think.

Les also presents "Strummers & Dreamers" on Cambridge.105 Radio. ... more

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