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Headfirst Dive

from Jake Whiskin by Jake Whiskin

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about

I was really excited when I wrote this song but couldn’t quite get it right, I made so many different demos and never felt like it quite lived up to what it sounded like in my head. My producer Lee threw me out of my comfort zone, as he loves to do, and we tracked a live version that sounded totally 90’s rock and that informed where we took the track. It freaked me out and I was on the fence at first but he just kept doubling down and making everything more distorted which was pretty funny. The next day I came into the studio and it blew my head off, sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone to make something worth while.

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Feels like a habit, I gotta have it
Don’t try to understand

It gets me twisted, lost for a minute
Stood at the taxi stand

Where I’ll go ain’t really where I wanna be
But your touch has got its claws right into me

I’m jumping in with a headfirst dive
It begins with a last goodbye
Because I’ve wasted so much time
Spent in my mind with dreams of you

Your faded red lipstick, the nights we were singing
Still ring around my head

Left unsaid and now I wonder if you knew
How I’ve changed after that summer I went through

I’m jumping in with a headfirst dive
It begins with a last goodbye
Because I’ve wasted so much time
Spent in my mind with dreams of you

Can’t catch a breath, there’s no way out
All your bridges have burned down
You thought you could get higher
But you’re out on the wire again

I’m jumping in with a headfirst dive
It begins with a last goodbye
Because I’ve wasted so much time
Spent in my mind with dreams of you

credits

from Jake Whiskin, track released July 1, 2022
Written: Jake Whiskin
Produced: Lee Smith and Rob Slater
Mixed: Lee Smith
Mastered: Robin Schmidt

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Jake Whiskin Leeds, UK

Jake Whiskin is a songwriter from Leeds, UK with reflective and vulnerable lyrics backlit by atmospheric new americana.

From life in Wortley council houses, young love & black metal tee’s to discovering 70’s songwriters via Armley charity shops, Whiskin’s recollections and explorations are an essential document of adolescence in Yorkshire in the late 90’s and 00’s. ... more

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