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The Usual Things (Single Version)

by Sand Brothers

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Sand Brothers latest single The Usual Things is the second song lifted from the forthcoming album “Too Much Sky” due for release in May on Summer Storm Records, Australia.
The Usual Things swings from reverie to lament, summoning raw memories of common experience: backroads, swimming holes, unspoken moments and things left unsaid. Interspersed with this, arise the mutual demands of relationships and human need. Other more dreamlike images leap forward: jagged islands, coral rings, possessions left to the dusty streets. Promises made and abandoned, lives built together to be only dashed upon the rocks. Is the singer reprimanding himself, or confronting a lost friend or estranged lover with a bitter truth - some sudden dawn of realisation?
“The bulk of the verses were written about 20 years ago, when I’d become itinerant and living out of my old van in Far North Queensland.” says Rick, “It languished in a notebook incomplete, but in the weeks leading up to our last recording session, I happened back upon it and knew it deserved further work. The day before recording, the chorus dropped in out of the ether and I trimmed it all down to a tight, core feeling. The band was introduced to the arrangement on the day and it was the last song of the session. This is the third and final take. We were beat - soaked in summer heat and sweat. We rewound the tape and knew we had captured what we were after.”

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The Usual Things

If you had come around to find me in
hoping to equalise, for me to blink.
You couldn't criticise or ever understand me,
when open and terrified of the uncertainty.
Now, I'm reckoning on an endless lucky streak,
to save my ship from breaking up at sea.
On those jagged islands, rocks and coral rings, the usual things.
And you wanted everything.
Now you want to give it all away,
Give it all back to me.

I knew these back roads well enough, we used to walk them.
Swam at the bend in the river once a day, we never talked there.
Just went about the usual things in our usual way,
a beautiful, beautiful hour with nothing to say.
Now, she’s beckoning from the endless dusty street
And all I have is emptied at her feet,
All those diamonds, gems, stone necklaces and rings, the usual things.
And you wanted everything.
Now you want to give it all away
Give it all back to me.

Reading your letters, taking no calls.
I have always got something to do with my time,
even when that’s nothing at all.

And you wanted everything.
Now you want to give it all away,
Give it all back to me.
And you want to hold back the sea,
Now you want to drink it all in.
Underneath the waves, underneath the skin
of the usual things.

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released February 20, 2023
Released February 20, 2023
Words: Sands / Music: Sands & Sand Brothers
Produced by Greg J Walker at Jumbunna Sound Studios Australia.
Mastered by Nao Anzai.

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Sand Brothers Korumburra, Australia

Dishevelled coastal rock, with late changes and storms developing in the evening.”
Sand Brothers is a supergroup of sorts, formed in 2020 by Greg Walker (Machine Translations) and Rick Sands (The Night Party) along with Pete Cook (Yamamoto), Din Roberts (Kutcha Edwards Band) and Glen Scarlett (Oak). Their forthcoming album “Too Much Sky” will be released early in the new year. ... more

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