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Living in Sound

by Ian Roland

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‘Living in Sound’ is Ian Roland’s first single release of 2024. Music creates communities and lifts us above the grind and toil. With evermore grassroots music venues closing due to the current economic crisis for small businesses, and yet more stadium music concerts generating huge revenues, this song speaks for a re-distribution of profits so that the UK music industry becomes sustainable and has a future. A general re-evaluation of what is truly valuable and sustaining for the world, would be good too. Music and the Arts are important. They question and challenge the status quo. We are all ‘Living In Sound’, wanting the chance to not only just exist but to live equally valued lives, in tune with our environment. This song is about still having “the strength to believe”. It is about singing in chorus with our natural environment and each other and in so doing, forming a new reality.

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LIVING IN SOUND

VERSE 1
KEEPS ON HAPPENING, KEEPS DROWNING US OUT
THAT PROMISE OF BETTER, AS TIME’S RUNNING OUT
LONG LINE OF NOTHING, WEIGHING US DOWN
(BUT) WE BECOME VAPOUR, LIVING IN SOUND
IN SOUND

CHORUS
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT
SOME SWEET, SWEET TRUTH IN OUR LIVES
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT
CAUGHT, ESCAPE, SURVIVE.

VERSE 2
HALLELUJAH, TIME IS HERE
RINGING VIBRATION, IN OUR EARS
UP IN THE TREE TOPS, FEET OFF THE GROUND
WE ARE CHORUS, WE ARE FOUND
FOUND

CHORUS
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT
BELIEVABLE AS A DREAM
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT
STILL GOT THE STRENGTH TO BELIEVE

VERSE (HALF)
LONG LINE OF NOTHING, WEIGHING US DOWN
(BUT) WE BECOME VAPOUR, LIVING IN SOUND
IN SOUND

CHORUS
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT
STILL GOT THE STRENGTH TO BELIEVE

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released April 26, 2024
Ian Roland – vocals, guitar
Dave Coomber – bass
James Chapman – drums
Mishkin Fitzgerald – piano, keyboards, backing vocals
Simon Yapp – violin, viola, backing vocals

Song by Ian Roland
Recorded at Brighton Road Recording Studios by Jake Skinner
Mastered at Subvert Central Mastering by Bob Macciochi
© 2024 Ian Roland

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Ian Roland Brighton, UK

Songwriter, Ian Roland, writes and performs unique Roots-Pop-Folk music, full of heart-strung orchestration and up-close, life-drenched lyrics. Ian has supported acts such as Martin Simpson, The Black Feathers, Stick In The Wheel, TV Smith, Robb Johnson, Boo Hewerdine, Robert Vincent, Chris Helme, Joshua Ray Walker, 10cc’s Graham Gouldman.

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