{"id":1642,"date":"2021-04-02T03:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T02:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2021-04-08T03:38:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T02:38:33","slug":"the-things-we-said-song-by-simon-mark-smith-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/the-things-we-said-song-by-simon-mark-smith-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things We Said Song by Simon Mark Smith 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Things We Said<\/h1>\n<p>You can watch the video just below<\/p>\n<p>Or listen on spotify by using this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6gVLLW55CcEc9uJSrT2WZI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6gVLLW55CcEc9uJSrT2WZI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Things We Said  - Simon Mark Smith\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KXZcwH_HYJA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>About the song<\/h3>\n<p>I belong to an arts club in London called The Chelsea Arts Club, and about 8 years ago I gave a couple I\u2019d been chatting with there a lift home, and in time became friends with them. The husband was someone called Andy Roberts who amongst many other credits played in the live version of Pink Floyd&#8217;s The Wall tour (he was the lead guitarist in the mask who struck the very first note of the concert each night). As time went on we did a few jamming sessions together to see what might come about and one day he started playing a riff which was very pretty so I started to sing along whilst we recorded what came to mind. Afterwards I said &#8220;That sounds a bit like Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits&#8221; to which he said, &#8220;No it doesn&#8217;t, it\u2019s completely different chords&#8221;. Given his pedigree I didn&#8217;t argue. So, I took the recording home and worked on it a bit, but it then got left behind as I started to delve in to virtual musician technology. Along with about 10 other songs I\u2019d written for an album called Fluid Air it got shelved for close to eight years. But recently I thought I must finish those songs off and rather than spend a few years recording an album and then releasing it I\u2019ll release each song as I complete it, so this is the first song of that collection to go online.<\/p>\n<p>If Dire Straits\u2019 Romeo and Juliet spoke of romantic adolescent love, then this song comes from a more jaded perspective, it\u2019s easy to see it as a cynical view of people not keeping to their word, and being a bit cruel with it too, but for me it\u2019s an acceptance of the ability of many of us to be fickle at times, and once that\u2019s understood it\u2019s easier to forgive those who don\u2019t live up to our expectations. So, in a way it&#8217;s a song about forgiveness, not only of others, but ourselves. The song is not particularly autobiographical, although I can see elements of it that reflect some relationships I had, but the names have definitely been changed so as to allow me to live a bit longer! The picture used for the cover does feature an ex-girlfriend, though we were 17, and at the time her mother banned me from seeing her, so that was our own Romeo and Juliet moment. But now, almost 40 years later we are still friends and laugh about it. We live calmer lives now.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of recording this I was also joined on this song by Steve Dumelo, Patou Soult and Jayne Broadhurst. Revisiting it in 2019\/2020 allowed me to add Patou\u2019s vocals as a featured artist which hadn\u2019t been considered in the earlier version. If you\u2019re interested in technology you might want to see if you can hear where the joins are between her voice and some samples I intertwined with it.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of technology I used Cubase to produce the song on, and then mainly UAD Plugins, along with FabFilter ones. The drumming was recorded using a virtual musician plug in, and the mastering was done using WaveLab and a whole host of other plugins. It took me about a month to mix, correct, and master this one song, partly because it had over 120 tracks to wade through so it was a nightmare at times, but one that taught me a lot. And you know what they say \u201cNo pain\u2026. Good\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Lyrics and Credits<\/h3>\n<p>Mary was going on her way<br \/>\nTripped through life<br \/>\nBut she came my way<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t want to hurt her<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t want to make her cry<br \/>\nSometimes you got to take<br \/>\nWhat you didn\u2019t want to hide<\/p>\n<p>Suzie came my way<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t want her to see<br \/>\nAll the things I knew she could be<br \/>\nBut the words I said<br \/>\nWere true at the end of my bed<br \/>\nBut the things I did<br \/>\nWeren\u2019t the things I said<\/p>\n<p>Up on the see saw<br \/>\nAround the merry-go-round<br \/>\nOn a bed<br \/>\nAnd upside down<br \/>\nBut the words I said<br \/>\nWere true at the end of my bed<br \/>\nBut the things I did<br \/>\nWeren\u2019t the things I said<\/p>\n<p>Annie was a poor girl<br \/>\nWhen I caught her eye<br \/>\nNever wanted me<br \/>\nTo say goodbye<br \/>\nAll I ever did was wave<br \/>\nAt her from the end of her bed<br \/>\nWhispered all the words<br \/>\nShe never wanted said<\/p>\n<p>[When the love has gone away<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll remember the words we say<br \/>\nAnd how it seemed perfect to me]<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I\u2019m the one<br \/>\nWho hurts you in side<br \/>\n[Guess it was meant to be]<br \/>\nNever wanted me<br \/>\nTo say goodbye<br \/>\n[When the love has gone away<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll remember yesterday]<\/p>\n<p>But the words I said<br \/>\nWere true at the end of my bed<br \/>\nBut the things I did<br \/>\nWeren\u2019t the things I said<\/p>\n<p>All the things you said<br \/>\nLa, la, la,<br \/>\nAll the things you said<\/p>\n<p>But the words I said<br \/>\nWere true at the end of my bed<br \/>\nBut the things we did<br \/>\nWeren&#8217;t the things we said<\/p>\n<p>Outro<\/p>\n<p>Copyright Simon Mark Smith 2012 and 2020<\/p>\n<h3>Credits<\/h3>\n<p>Vocal Melodies and Lyrics written by Simon Mark Smith<br \/>\nOriginal Musical Idea by Andy Roberts of www.andyrobertsmusic.com<br \/>\nGuitars and High Bass Andy Roberts<br \/>\nLow Bass Patou Soult<br \/>\nDrums programming Simon Mark Smith<br \/>\nPercussion Patou Soult and Simon Mark Smith<br \/>\nPianos Simon Mark Smith and Steve Dumelo<br \/>\nKeyboards Simon Mark Smith and Steve Dumelo<br \/>\nChoral Keyboard Steve Dumelo<br \/>\nMain Female lead vocals and second backing vocals Patou Soult<br \/>\nMain female backing Jayne Broadhurst<br \/>\nAll other vocals and instrumentation Simon Mark Smith<br \/>\nMixed by Simon Mark Smith<br \/>\nArranged by Simon Mark Smith.<br \/>\n\u00a9Simon Mark Smith 2012 and 2020<br \/>\nCome to www.simonmarksmith.com for further information and free downloads<br \/>\nPlease follow Simon Mark Smith on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music or any other major digital distributor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Things We Said You can watch the video just below Or listen on spotify by using this link: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6gVLLW55CcEc9uJSrT2WZI About the song I belong to an arts club in London called The Chelsea Arts Club, and about 8 years ago I gave a couple I\u2019d been chatting with there a lift home, and in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-music","category-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsdiary.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}