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EXPOSED SOUL
special edition
THE DIRECTORS COMMENTARY
Since We're In Love
(Paul Foxton)
Written at college on a Clavinova, just after I started going out with Clare, I wrote a song for her and this is it. No, we didn't meet like in the song, and the lyrics just flowed out of me as I played. They are pretty much the same as when I originally recorded it. However, the original demo was recorded in one take in five minutes as a major meeting was about to take place in the piano room. The ending of the original demo was inspired, but faded out so I couldn't recreate it on Exposed Soul. I've added bits here and there, but it's essentially the same song; a power ballad and a great song. I love it.
If You Don't Mind
(Paul Foxton)
Perennial acoustic classic performed originally by Urban Reality at every gig we did. Solo wise, I have used it in every band I've been in to warm me up and help me reach some confidence. The lyrics are profound and some of the best I've written and it's the only song that has been translated into another language (Spanish). I played it live with a full band at my Princes Trust concert in a band called MakeShift and it got a standing ovation (I even played guitar!). The song also features in the Urban Reality set list but also has found it's way onto the Make ConneXions single with different lyrics. The first song I properly put down to record with Ryan and also recorded a legendary living room session of this song with Suzi Sanders on drums and duet vocals which was, in my opinion, the best version I ever heard. It also impressed John Parr and he gave us positive feedback from this song. I wrote this after feeling a bit down and had just split up with Kellie who I was besotted with. She'd just moved to Sheffield and I wanted her to come to me just to hold my hand, and basically it's about the fact that her and me could maybe get together and make sense of the world. There's lots of different versions of this song kicking about in the archives, but John, the producer of EXPOSED SOUL, reckoned we should try it with a country flava, and of which, this version is on this album. There is also a duet version with Suzi, as an outtake, which is similar to this one.
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