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The Trail Went Cold

from Jake Whiskin by Jake Whiskin

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This was one of the last songs I wrote for the record and probably my favourite. It’s about getting older and feeling you’re running out of time to get to where you need to be and maybe you’ve fooled yourself into believing something you don’t to even make it this far -’ no man is as tall as his tales, time warps the truth’. You’ve been down so many paths to find some peace and purpose but the trail’s gone cold and you’re just left to face what’s right in front of you at that moment.

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No man is as tall as his tales
Time warps the truth
The sun is setting as I sail
To a place in my youth

Ringing in my ears, that null and void
Building up for years every strategy deployed got old
and then the trail went cold
I got old and then the trail went cold

No man is as tall as his tales
Messianic at times
Like a train that’s gone off the rails
I leave a wreckage behind

Like an amnesiac, don’t know where I’m bound
Cannot make it back, just a stranger in town who got lost
and still just hanging around
I got lost and still just hanging around

I could scream it or stay silent
It gets messed up, yeah it’s violent
In my mind that new horizon
Could just kill me for a while

Ringing in my ears, that null and void
Building up for years every strategy deployed got old
and then the trail went cold
I got old and then the trail went cold

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from Jake Whiskin, released November 4, 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.
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