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Whatever Your Heart Desires

by Charlie Grant

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Whatever Your Heart Desires started life as a guitar riff that Charlie was messing around with and eventually took into a songwriting session with Claire-ann Varley from the Berlin based band Varley. They talked about how often artists are their own worst enemies and how a lack of self esteem can hold many talented people back from ever sharing their gifts with the world.

The song is an ode to believing that amazing things are possible and daring to question your inner demons. Charlie recorded the song in Berlin with producer Joschka Bender at the helm, making use of glitchy electric guitars, atmospheric backing vocals from Claire-ann and a Harmonium recorded on an old 4- Track recording machine and slowed down to half speed to create a haunting, atmospheric soundscape.

lyrics

WHATEVER YOUR HEART DESIRES.

Always one step on, and two steps back
You’re falling flat now you’re bruised in love
It keeps turning bad but you’re doing it to yourself
Oh, and the saddest part
There’s nobody else keeping you in the dark

Imaginary enemies whispering and they’re poisoning the barrel
And it’s seeping into the seams
And though you don’t see it now
There’s nobody else, you burned your own bridges down

Light it up, light it up now
From a spark into a bonfire
Tear the walls that you build in your mind down,
And dream that you could have it all
Whatever your heart desires
Whatever your heart desires.

A thousand little tragedies
Stories that only you believe
You’re deliberately sabotaging yourself
Oh and the saddest part
There’s nobody else, that stops you before you start

Light it up, light it up now
From a spark into a bonfire
Tear the walls that you build in your mind down,
And dream that you could have it all
Whatever your heart desires
Whatever your heart desires.

Slowly, peeling the curtains back
No one has to know
How hard it is to make it look so easy
When you let the light in

Light it up, light it up now
From a spark into a bonfire
Tear the walls that you build in your mind down,
And dream that you could have it all
Whatever your heart desires
Whatever your heart desires.
Whatever your heart desires
Whatever your heart desires.

credits

released February 7, 2021
Written by Charlie Grant and Claire-Ann Varley
Produced, engineered and mixed by Joschka Bender
Mastered by Ainsley Adams
Charlie Grant - Acoustic and electric guitars, Lead vocals.
Claire-Ann Varley - Backing vocals
Joschka Bender -Synthesizer, Harmonium, Programming.
Photo by Louis Fernandez

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Charlie Grant Berlin, Germany

Berlin based singer/songwriter Charlie Grant pulled in favours and formed a new currency based on pints of beer owed to various musician friends and studio owners, recorded in the dead of night and set to work on Astronaut -a set of songs focused on musicianship, storytelling, song craft and a love for 1970’s soft rockers like The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Bread and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. ... more

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