To You, We Surrender - Benjamin Akira Tallamy

To You, We Surrender is Ben's 6th studio single.
It is available from all good digital retailers.

LYRICS:

I don’t know what any of you see,
When your weary mind falls upon me,
And you, who I hope must know me,
I pray you will think kindly of me,

And all I wish to do is something beautiful for you,
And all I want to be is someone more beautiful than me,

If I could just lay here, for a thousand years,
I feel I might just realise, I'm not afraid of what we knew was true,

All I am, is a handful of sand, a small brief strand of something ineffable,
And for all our elaborate plans, it is perhaps too grand to say I am even a man,

For all in all, we must be waiting for you,
And all in all, we must be searching for something true,

I never learned to pray,
Never kept my faith in the feeling of a true way,
Never thought we’d stay,
Refined my mind for the trust of this time,
What a thing to say?
Defy the lines and times of this age,
But it holds no sway,
The shame is the claim that we’ve found the true page,

I’m all wrapped up, in ribbons of romance,
Everybody moves to the same strange, slow dance,
I say you’re all crazy,

And so, my love, you’ll always know my hand,
And if you can, just try to understand,
Why I can’t see things this way,

Darling, we are not those people,
Were not the same,
And you, my love, must some day realise this truth,
Or am I just screaming at the moon?

Beyond this blood and the bones that we love,
Is the existential notion of some vast ocean,
Lost in the clutter of the soul’s dull stutter,
We rail, fail and drown in the gutter,
We fall at the first, when the heart’s young thirst is
quenched from the source of the same strange course,
kicked from abstraction, to mere transaction,
lines, shrines, and petty reaction,

The truth really knocks me down,
Somehow, I still get through,
And if you can hear me now,
Please know, I still need you,

All there is this sense of being,
All there is this sense of feeling,
Life, and you, is enough to get me through,

And if you need some eternal answer,
Better lay down with the reeds in river,
for the stars will teach you more than I ever could do

and I don’t know why, any of you might be even remotely interested in me,
and I don’t why any of you might be compelled to even give a damn about me,

And for all our lonely pangs of silence, we know,
That love is not measured by our gestures in this world but by intentions of the soul.

CREDITS

Music by
Benjamin Akira Tallamy

Featuring
Benjamin Akira Tallamy
(Guitar, Vocals, Flute, Djembe, Kibasa)

Dan Cox
(Cello)

Sam Taylor
(Drums)

Rich Wortham
(Electric Bass, Trombone)

Mastered by
Music Pimp Machine

VIDEO
(In no particular order)

CREW
Alex White
Chris Williams
Amy Eden
Dom Lee
Simon Tytherleigh
Rhys Denton
Neil Ewins
Andy Robinson
Duke Palmer
Mike Alsford

FEATURING
Benjamin Akira Tallamy
Lucy Cole
Zaphod the pug
Tom Menary
Lady Arachny
Andrew John Shaw
Kate Todd
Sam Pike
Amanda Owl Bland
Chris Chudley
Graham Sessions
John Hedley
Amelie Foster
Mike Smallridge
Artur Augustyniak
Emily Howard
Ellie Webber
Jake Davies
Anna Pascoe
Mex (Cap’in Queeg)
Rich Craig
Nick Loven
Ellie Baptie
Corina Skerritt
Lydia Staniaszek
Wallace Welling
Richard Knox
Sarah White
Helen Beaver
Diana Townsend
Becca McLean
Jenna McGill
Fiona Leishman
Madi Parkinson
Lydia Parkinson
Luke Pilling
Michelle Sibthorpe
Kat Black
Anton Augustyniak
Emiko Fukuda
Dean Reddin
Katherine O’Connor Storey

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO
John Tomkins
Jonty Fisk
Substance And Shadow Theatre
Four Of Swords Theatre
Exeter Phoenix Digital
Theatre Alibi
Tomasito Drewett
Steven Barns
Richard O’Donnell

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