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The River - How do You Measure Pain?

from The Unplanned Obsolescence Of Thom Topham by Steve Swindells

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This is a medley/mix of two tracks. 'The River' is the first part of a much longer track which was originally called 'Rancho Deluxe'. Jerry Richards and I wrote and recorded it in my eponymous studio in 2004. I wrote and recorded 'How Do You Measure Pain' in Rancho Deluxe 2 in 2010, when I was recovering from a near-fatal panic attack and was very ill.

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The light, the water, the rain, the river.
The light, the water, the rain, the river.
The light, the water, the rain, the river.

Rancho deluxe, rancho deluxe...

It's a serenade of love for strangers who are in flux.
The renegades of rancho deluxe.

Yeah, the renegades, ahh, yeah I'm gonna take you.

The light, the water, the rain, the river.
The light, the water, the rain, the river.
Mountains and glaciers and volcanos...
Hey... the renegades....

There's a windswept warehouse neighbourhood called nothing, for good reason, not a place that people live in, but an industrial domain.
Now they're building flats by the hospital, you can rent and buy this season,
in a wasteland with no heart and soul - it's a dystopian dusty plain.

There's a huge inhuman superstore that's open 24, next door to the hospital, where I found myself again… back in A&E with me and me, there are endless corridors and it hurts so much you can't even touch - so how do you measure pain?

That's why I say I hurt so bad... I cannot even think,
my head has turned to Hades and I really need a drink.
How do you measure pain? Do you just believe what someone tells you?
Why does it still remain, like someone someone obsessed who can just smell you?

The cold wind blows, the car park glows with fall-out acid rain,
I might even lose my home-sweet-home, so how do you measure pain?
There's no friend here, I'm all alone, I'm focused on my brain.
It tells me hurt is visceral, so how do you measure pain?

That's why they say I hurt so bad I cannot even think,
my head has turned to Hades and I really need a drink.
So how do you measure pain? Do you just believe what someone tells you?
Why does it still remain, like someone someone obsessed who can just smell you?

How? How? How can you measure pain?

credits

from The Unplanned Obsolescence Of Thom Topham, released July 4, 2019
Electric guitar and sound effects (on 'The River'): Jerry Richards.

Drum programming, keyboards, vocals and production: Steve Swindells.

Recorded in 2006 and 2010 respectfully at Rancho Deluxe Studio.

Additional keyboards (that includes the sax!) added at Rancho Deluxe on the summer solstice of 2019.

Words and music Richards/Swindells

iPhone 'Phinger Painting' by Steve Swindells (2019).

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