Passed Tense
The backstory
We thought we'd start of properly with a newly released song.
This song was written in 2021 during Covid along with a few others. I guess we were technically still Volume One then.
Ricky had moved back to Tenerife to be with his kids and get over a nasty break-up and I wrote the lyrics by putting myself in his shoes
and what I knew had happened.
Losing my best mate to that distance helped with the feeling of loss.
The lyrics are about how the break-up affected him mentally and how he was treated, and how he feels post-recovery coming out of the other side of that process.
It's a song of jubilance and triumph.
Lyrics
I don’t mind telling you right here,
that it wasn’t my year.
If it was, I could've stayed.
My head said all the colours were bright,
but my subconscious took flight,
with no warning of the fade.
So I’m recovered now, you’re out of my head.
‘Cause the pain you caused down the wrong path led.
Each day sings, optimism blooms.
It was all me, that was your song,
percussion lies, but the beat was wrong.
The tunes you played won’t break my new nirvana.
Across the sea, a world away,
past is past, that’s where it stays,
It’s had its farewells.
Our souls break away,
but now I’m all past tense, it’s...
just brighter days.
I’m perfect and where I belong,
Singing my own songs,
of the future's brighter days.
And I’m pleased now that I understand,
That the reason I’m right where I am,
Is ‘cause you threw it all away.
So I’m recovered now, you’re out of my head.
‘Cause the pain you caused down the wrong path led.
Each day sings, optimism blooms.
It was all me, that was your song,
percussion lies, but the beat was off,
Tunes you played won’t break my new Nirvana.
Across the sea, a world away,
past is past, that’s where it stays,
It’s had its farewells.
Our souls break away,
but now I’m all past tense, it’s...
just brighter days.
Across the sea, a world away,
past is past, that’s where it stays,
It’s had its farewells.
Our souls break away,
but now I’m all past tense, it’s...
just brighter days.
that it wasn’t my year.
If it was, I could've stayed.
My head said all the colours were bright,
but my subconscious took flight,
with no warning of the fade.
So I’m recovered now, you’re out of my head.
‘Cause the pain you caused down the wrong path led.
Each day sings, optimism blooms.
It was all me, that was your song,
percussion lies, but the beat was wrong.
The tunes you played won’t break my new nirvana.
Across the sea, a world away,
past is past, that’s where it stays,
It’s had its farewells.
Our souls break away,
but now I’m all past tense, it’s...
just brighter days.
I’m perfect and where I belong,
Singing my own songs,
of the future's brighter days.
And I’m pleased now that I understand,
That the reason I’m right where I am,
Is ‘cause you threw it all away.
So I’m recovered now, you’re out of my head.
‘Cause the pain you caused down the wrong path led.
Each day sings, optimism blooms.
It was all me, that was your song,
percussion lies, but the beat was off,
Tunes you played won’t break my new Nirvana.
Across the sea, a world away,
past is past, that’s where it stays,
It’s had its farewells.
Our souls break away,
but now I’m all past tense, it’s...
just brighter days.
Across the sea, a world away,
past is past, that’s where it stays,
It’s had its farewells.
Our souls break away,
but now I’m all past tense, it’s...
just brighter days.
How this was made
- Lyrics
- 100% written by Simon Hazzard, 2021.
- Music
- Composed with Suno by Ricky, from our lyrics, under his direction — prompted, listened to, rejected and re-done over roughly 2 days until it matched what he heard in his head.
We did not use a single unedited AI generation. - Vocals
- Suno-generated