Name: To Spin or to be Spun
Duration: P00H03M16S
Description: I wrote this track to try and capture in song form the chaotic energy of being out for a walk when the wind is pushing you and making your hair whip against your face. There's a tension between how I want to move and the pressure of the wind just pushing me.

To Spin or to be Spun

by Ortense Blue

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I wrote this track to try and capture in song form the chaotic energy of being out for a walk when the wind is pushing you and making your hair whip against your face. There's a tension between how I want to move and the pressure of the wind just pushing me.

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Another walking trip
In the rain with you
Kicking through the leaves
Getting dirty isn’t cool to me
Like it is to you

The wind is shushing me
You pick up a stick
To test the puddle’s depth
It’s getting louder as you’re jumping in

As the wind turns us round
I cannot slow it down
Am I falling should I run
I look at you and wonder

Is it danger, is it fun
To spin or to be spun
Oh I know that this is what we need now
Our new living has begun

I grab the hazel trunk
Or is it holding us
Your hair is whipping upwards
And you are laughing as you look up at me
Clinging to the tree

Is it danger is it fun
To spin or to be spun
Oh I know that this is what we need now
Our new living has begun

Is it danger is it fun now
To spin or to be spun
Is it danger is it fun now

Oh I know that this is what we need now
Our new living has begun

Is it danger is it fun now
Our new living has begun
Is it danger is it fun now

Copyright 2023 Donna Maria Bottomley

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released November 24, 2023
Written and produced by Donna Maria Bottomley
Mastering by Alex Bartles at Altar Studios

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Ortense Blue Wales, UK

Songwriter and Therapist. Interested in music for wellbeing. I've just completed an MMus in Music & Sound where I researched bilateral music stimulation.

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