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How Have You Been?

by Silver Birch

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The instrumental idea to «How Have You Been?» had been with me for over a decade and last summer I finally found a vocal-melody to go with, that I was inspired by. Some night, I couldn’t sleep and was hunted by flashbacks of a weird encounter with an old friend, and so i laid down the basic idea for the lyrics. Soon afterwards my pals Tobi and Flo and i set up in our one-room-studio and recorded drums, bass-synth & guitar at the same time. Later on we added acoustic piano and ended up using the pilot-vocals. voila, a song that i’m very fond of. I hope you enjoy it.

lyrics

HOW HAVE YOU BEEN? - SILVER BIRCH - Lyrics

A while ago we tried to find a way
For us to be friends again
We talked for hours and it almost felt
Like it did back then
Then without a warning the floor burst open
You‘re over there i‘m here
The world we stood upon drifted apart
I could only watch you fade away

How have you been?
What made you wanna burn?
All that’s good just to kill
The beast

Looking back the years i’m starting to think
That maybe it’s not meant to be
There never might be a time
Where both of us could be at peace
There was the year when you made friends
And found new love and i was lost
Later when we had fled for the city
I followed my dream but you were still
Trapped by the past
Today i watch you waft away
I‘m over here and you are there

How have you been?
What made you wanna burn?
All that’s good just to kill
The beast

Oh how have you been?
What made you wanna burn?
All that’s good just to kill
The beast oh
How have you been?

credits

released February 16, 2024
song written, produced, mixed and mastered by Patrick Lerjen at imBuuch PROGR Bern.

Patrick Lerjen :: vocals & guitars
Tobi Diggelmann :: piano & synthBass
Flo Hufschmid :: drums

released on TAN-Records 2024 under exclusive license by Silver Birch

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Silver Birch Bern, Switzerland

Silver Birch melds the cornerstones of his musical identity to a world of soothing song-lines that evoke names like Ben Howard, J. Tillman or Bon Iver.
In Silver Birch’s songs, slow drums, wavy guitars, and lush 70’s synths & string-machines set the scene in the realms of indie-folk and alternative-rock.
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