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Bad Luck

by Adam Barnes

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Bad Luck is the lead single and opening track to the 2nd full length album of Adam Barnes; A songwriter based in the countryside of Oxfordshire. This is an extension of the final song of the ‘One Day We’ll Be Fine’ E.P named 'Tennyson'.

Bad Luck is a song that seems to be a staple of the independent music scene. Small independent artists looking to make space for themselves and the struggle that it’s taken to get to this point, A reflection on 3 years since Adam's last record.

It’s meant to be raw, open and intimate, backed by the strings of Barney Morse Brown (Birdy, Duotone, Richard Walters) This isn’t a song looking or asking for pity but stating the realisation that every two steps forward seems to be followed by a step back. It’s optimism in the face of defeat, a second wind to make a go of it. It seemed a perfect way to open the record and set up the songs to come.

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I’ve been staring back at you
With nothing to say
You’ll watch me sit and overthink
With no words for the page
Some kind of wall we try to build
It’s a troublesome age and
I fear of standing up alone
With no songs for the stage

I’ve reached the top of the mountain
The hours it spent
Somehow cloud cover had fallen
No view of anything
How would you even know
Of any beauty down below
The summit was condensation and wind
Which isn’t fulfilling

You can see a light in my heart
The pieces I have yet to place
To form something I’m yet to face

The smallest thing I can’t seem to kick
A smoker stuck on nicotine
The honeybee necking coffee drinks

Can you feel the moment of truth
We’re hanging on their every word
Preaching gospel yet unheard

Please don’t let this worry me more
I’m getting greyer every day
Soon I’ll have nothing to say

I hope it kickstarts everything
I hope it kickstarts everything

I think I’m bout due for a win
I think it’s about time that I won

The Mets are looking at 30 years
The Panthers have nothing to fear

Maybe it will be their year
Maybe it will be their year

Maybe it will be my year
Or maybe it will be just more bad luck

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released July 14, 2017
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Written & Composed by Adam Barnes
Recorded at Studio 91 by Sam Winfield (Amber Run, Fickle Friends)
Keys, drum arrangements and produced by Sam Winfield at Studio 91
Cello arrangements & recording Barney Morse-Brown by www.twopieceorchestra.com

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