Name: The Ink Won't Take To The Page
Duration: P00H05M14S
Description: This is the first song I recorded for my Hospital Corner project. It's about when your life stalls or completely falls apart and it's hard to get going again. Wrote it a few years ago when my life was, indeed, falling apart. Have I got it going again? No, but I wrote this song so that will have to do.

The Ink Won't Take To The Page

by Hospital Corner

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This is the first song I recorded for my Hospital Corner project. It's about when your life stalls or completely falls apart and it's hard to get going again. Wrote it a few years ago when my life was, indeed, falling apart. Have I got it going again? No, but I wrote this song so that will have to do.

lyrics

Plagued with an absence of feeling
It all turned around
It was hardly a watershed
Wasn't profound
I know that I've been just guessing
For far too long now
I've been shouting the answers out
Asking the questions the wrong way around

You told me I've been regressing
Into a shy little kid
And i know it's not good enough
Nothing ever is
What we need it to be
When we need it now
When we need it now

The ink won't take to the page
I try to write
When I look there's nothing there
I've been hollowed out
Worn away like the carpets I pace
I've been hollowed out

I'm waking up in the ruins of a beautiful home
If I parade in a costume no one would've known
Won't strike at the heart of what I really am
Just another lazy idiot
Perhaps something even more deadly than that

I can't lay a glove on this world
Close my eyes and swing
When I look there's no one there
I've been emptied out
Can't be long 'til I'm more cracks than man
I feel empty now

The time doesn't heal it just shortens my life
And time after time though the time wasn't right
I can't still be as weak as I was
And though I'm not strong I can just laugh along

The ink won't take to the page
I try to write
When I look there's nothing there
I've been hollowed out
Worn away like the carpets I pace
I've been hollowed out

credits

released September 15, 2020
Written and performed by Chris Finn
Produced by Raff Eragona (Ella's Brother)
Mastered by Reuben Taylor
Photography & Artwork by Anna Isabelle Kjærgaard

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Hospital Corner Edinburgh, UK

Hospital Corner is the music project of me, Edinburgh musician Chris Finn. Hospital Corner becomes a sensational 5 piece rock band when the opportunity arises.

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