Thank You for Last Time

The first single from the forthcoming Project Blackbird album, "True Names" (release date summer 2024).
Video filmed and edited by the brilliant Jay Hillyer at Vault Music Studios in Melton Mowbray. Thank you, Jay.
THANK YOU FOR LAST TIME
Music: Varley / Read / Project Blackbird
Lyrics: Nagel
ALAN ROBERTS - electric guitar / EDDIE DUBLIN - drums / JAMIE VARLEY - bass guitar / JON READ - keyboards, trumpet / MING NAGEL - vocals
Recorded at Zephyr Studios (Leicester, UK) and Four Winds (Burrough on the Hill, UK).
Engineered by Dave Tidmarsh and Jon Read.
Produced and mixed by Dave Tidmarsh, Jon Read, and Project Blackbird.
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio (New York, NY, USA).
LYRICS
to everything that I adore
in this isolated world:
fates and furies, nights unfurled
time - fiction - time - fiction
mounds of graymoss in the fields
reptiles swelling to reveal
cracks of their tectonic scales
time - fiction - time - fiction
outer space must pale in comparison to this
other-worldly landscape of darkening bliss
I head to sands that are still belted by a sash of volcanic boulders
it’s strange to be back again - 20 years on and feeling much older
like looking in a mirror through a hazy lens, backwards over your shoulder
later we search for the cottage, on the coastline where I stayed
waters rich in alkaline
write a somnolent slow sweep
dreams tilt on the edge of sleep
time - fiction - time - fiction
each departure is a loss
each farewell is something gained
time stealing itself from time
time - fiction - time - fiction
outer space must pale in comparison to this
other-worldly landscape of darkening bliss
here it stands - Bakkasel, my age
I know that both our stories have changed
I walk past expanses of green and unused foundations
everything is dying or in a state of gestation
the corrugated slopes bleed into the sky like an impressionist painting

[@SarahMcQuaid]

Ages since I’ve heard the cheesy video premiere intro music! Now feels almost nostalgic.

[@lydiawood5641]

Love! ❤

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you for watching, Lydia - and for all your help in promoting this 💜

[@helenrobertson2884]

🙌🙌🎉

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thanks, Helen 🥰

[@SarahMcQuaid]

Lovely!

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you, Sarah ❤

[@AdrianNelson1507]

I cannot express my love for this in mere words ❤️

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Adrian - speechless!?! Thank you for that lovely comment ❤

[@helenrobertson2884]

👋back in time for start 🙂

[@somehappything]

Really enjoyed that - thank you xxx

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you Happy, Jolly, and Joy - and thank you for being at the "premiere"! xxx

[@louisetoal4017]

Hello! 👋

[@nicevennett1312]

LOVE

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you Nic 💜

[@louisetoal4017]

Gorgeous stuff, guys! ❤️

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thanks, Louise 🥰 It was good fun.

[@alnx765]

Bingo

[@martinhaskell376]

Fantastic!

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thanks, Martin - and thank you for your support on ExileFM, too 🎶🎧🎙

[@wayshen6560]

Many kudos from across the pond! And thanks for putting this on -- We love it and love you all!

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you, DFC, and much love back across the pond to you 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@SarahMcQuaid]

Back in time to tune in, yay! Looking forward to this.

[@uncle_kid]

Slick video. The perfect companion to a bewitching tune.

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thanks, Uncle Kid 🦇🖤

[@MachinaX]

Class!🥰

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you, Annie xx

[@angelaread6781]

That was great - love the video!! ❤👏

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you, Angie ❤

[@YinkaRead]

Great video guys!!!

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you, Yinka!

[@michaelk7179]

Very cool!

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you!

[@sueoreszczyn7723]

Fab video and looking forward to the album! ...So love that trumpet🎵

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you, Sue! it's a beauty, isn't it?! 🎺🎺🎺💛

[@jimmeryellis]

That would be a Paul Windridge product i imagine ;). Tripple Bell.

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

@@jimmeryellis you got it in one (three) 😉

[@sueoreszczyn7723]

It certainly is! @@ProjectBlackbirdMusic

[@SarahMcQuaid]

May be out but will definitely tune in if back in time!

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you, Sarah 🥰

[@chloebates9112]

🎉❤That was lovely!! 🎉 xxx

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you, Chloe! Can't wait to share your incredible album artwork with the world 💜😍💜

[@chloebates9112]

@@ProjectBlackbirdMusic Soooo excited!! X

[@jonathanread5782]

@@chloebates9112 the art work fulfilled all that I was hoping for and then some....

[@chloebates9112]

@jonathanread5782 Wow thankyou! X I am honoured you all chose me :)

[@ritavarley4395]

I love it all! The edgey trumpet wow! xx❤️ xx.

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thanks Rita! And the edgy bass player, too 🥰

[@tinkarobert]

Amazing

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Big thanks for all your support, Robert 🥰

[@tinkarobert]

You're welcome @@ProjectBlackbirdMusic

[@gideonsikk8733]

Fantastic piece here by a well loved group of individuals
❤️ .
I especially love anything with a
vocal narration .the kind of voice that ud want whispering softly in ur ear at the end of all things thank u x curious lyrics..2nd law.of thermodynamics maybe lol.. entropic

[@jonathanread5782]

Thanks Brad.

[@ProjectBlackbirdMusic]

Thank you, Brad 🥰 support at the Apocalypse can be arranged...along with an interpretive guide to lyrics xx