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My ‘Just A Song’ this week is quite possibly the oldest original that I will record in the series. It is however the very first time I have performed it solo, in public as I have done here.

This song is a narrative centred on a shy, young woman and her impassioned pleas for love.
A beautiful, hopeful ballad brought to The Jaynes not long after we moved to Melbourne in the mid-90’s by one of the bands’ founding members and my dear, old friend Ben Abbott.
Ben has always had a wonderful knack of writing hooky riffs, lyrical lines and catchy tunes.
I’ve always loved making music with Ben and continue to relish any opportunity to sing his songs.

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CANDLE LIT
By Ben Abbott and The Jaynes

All she does is stay at home
She just sits inside her telephone. She can’t help it.
“Will he ring? I know he will.
Or will I have to take the pills I need for love,
Just to show him”

“I can’t find a way to ask him over.
But I tried yesterday there wasn’t anybody home.
The fire is high I know too well
Only fire keeps the candle lit.
He makes me want to melt”

She gets dressed up for the night.
Dressed because she knows that this could be the night.
She is hoping.
“You don’t make things easy.
Being sick into my basin’s killing me. I can’t take it.”

And she says “I can’t find a way to ask him over
But I tried yesterday and there wasn’t anybody home.

The fire is high I know too well
Only fire keeps the candle lit. He makes me want to melt”

“The fire is high I know too well
Only fire keeps the candle lit. He makes me want to melt.

The fire is high I know too well
It’s your light that keeps the flame that makes me want to melt.”

The fire is high
The fire is high
“He makes me want to melt”

It makes me want too.

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from Just A Song: iSo'Live in the Outhouse' - Series 1, released December 27, 2020
Arranged, performed and recorded 'Live in the Outhouse' by Tom C.C.Bones

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Tom C.C.Bones Melbourne, Australia

Born and raised in the Fiji Islands, Tom has been singing and performing as a multi-instrumentalist in venues around the world from a young age. As front man of 90’s Rock/Pop band The Jaynes and more recently combining talents with his brother Marty in heading up alt-folk group Cousin Leonard, Tom continues to be a passionate activist in creative expression & songs that stimulate the human spirit. ... more

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