Daniel Gadd

Singer/Songwriter from Cape Town based in London, UK

The new studio album ‘About Strange Lands and People’ – OUT NOW

Daniel Gadd - Can't Stop the Leaves (Official Music Video) From the album ‘About Strange Lands and People’ – BUY / LISTEN: https://lnkfi.re/danielgadd FOLLOW: Bandcamp: https://danielgadd.bandcamp.com Website: https://danielgadd.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/danielgaddmusic Instagram: https://instagram.com/danielgaddmusic Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielgaddmusic Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7yjQG2WkOptNRfNKcZUUOJ?si=0mnIP1ypTgOTvKcx7-BSHA Apple: https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/daniel-gadd/1076398542 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DnGadd CREDITS: STARRING: Daniel Gadd, Jessica Cogan DIRECTOR: Anna Francesca Jennings DOP: Charles Mori FIRST AD: Gaëlle Simon MOVEMENT DIRECTOR: Jess Tucker Boyd EDITOR: Daniel Gadd CAST: Alexander Gallimore, Annie Rae Donaghy, Charlotte Ratcliffe, Curtis Elvidge, Fiifi Mills, Harnek Mudhar, Holly Demaine, Leyla Jafarian, Mark Summerell, Meeri Aro, Sarah Clarbour Performed by Daniel Gadd Written by Daniel Gadd Daniel Gadd (PRS) / Published by Sentric Music Limited Produced by Jonjo Keefe and Daniel Gadd Mixed by Jonjo Keefe Mastered by Cicely Balston Players: Daniel Gadd - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar Benoit Parmentier - Drums Jonjo Keefe - Bass Cat Edmondson - Backing Vocals Sally Stenning - Backing Vocals Oliver Patrice Weder - Wurlitzer LYRICS: Well we’re outside Smoking one last cigarette I can see it’s burning low God I don’t want it to burn low She said it’s like the leaves You can’t stop the leaves from falling It would be foolish to try I said it’s foolish not to try So when you go Honey I’m really gonna miss you But you were an anvil on my chest You were a forest fire burning in my lungs #DanielGadd #AboutStrangeLandsAndPeople #CantStopTheLeaves #songwriter #musicvideo

Daniel Gadd - About Strange Lands and People (Official Lyric Video) From the album ‘About Strange Lands and People’ – BUY / LISTEN: https://lnkfi.re/danielgadd FOLLOW: Bandcamp: https://danielgadd.bandcamp.com Website: https://danielgadd.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/danielgaddmusic Instagram: https://instagram.com/danielgaddmusic Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielgaddmusic Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7yjQG... Apple: https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/dan... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DnGadd CREDITS: Illustrations and Animation by Sarah Tims Website: https://sarahtims.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahtdraws Performed by Daniel Gadd Written by Daniel Gadd Daniel Gadd (PRS) / Published by Sentric Music Limited Produced by Jonjo Keefe and Daniel Gadd Mixed by Jonjo Keefe Mastered by Cicely Balston Players: Daniel Gadd - Vocals, Electric Guitar Cat Edmondson - Backing Vocals Sally Stenning - Backing Vocals LYRICS: Well it’s a quarter after midnight and you’re walking home The wind hits you like ice and you’re chilled to the bone And your chest feels heavy and your head’s bowed low And your thoughts are running thick and muddy and slow And you knew what you had to say, you had it clear in your mind And for some reason thought things would be different this time But of course they weren’t and the words just didn’t come Now you’re stuck with dead words on the end of your tongue You see the thing about these dreams of yours is they’re fragile in form And in the cold light of day are too easily torn And behind you they’re all talking and laughing and drinking But here you are walking like a ship’s anchor sinking And out of nowhere a car door slams And a cat jumps out from under a van Runs down a side road you somehow failed to see All the hundreds of times you’ve been up and down this street And you’re hit by the full force of something pushed back and hidden That’s found a crack somewhere and rapidly risen From some river or lake buried way down in the deep black earth And you can’t quite explain it but you just need to know What’s lying at the end of that tucked away road You find yourself in a courtyard completely alone Surrounded by tall trees that creak and groan And point out a pathway dim-lit by the glow From a small old church of weathered stone The door’s half open so you step inside And your heart starts pounding and your jaw drops wide ‘Cause there’re thousands of candles and in their flickering light Is the biggest stained glass window you’ve ever seen in your life And you call out to see if anyone else is around But your only answer back is the dust-muffled sound Of an ancient clock ticking in an ancient steeple And you’re alone in this stained glass world of strange lands and people And towering above you is Saint Lawrence in a tall fire burning But he’s joking and laughing as he’s twisting and turning And beside him stands Saint Sebastian with three arrows in his side But again no trace of fear or pain in his eyes And there’s a town named after him in the North of Spain And you remember you were there once in a thick cloud of rain On a steep green mountain with four close friends And in the mist and the fog a long wooden fence Was all you had to direct you, your only guide And standing there calmly on the other side were two black horses, silent and strong And you found yourself staring so close and so long That their colours started to change and they multiplied Into twenty desert horses in a long ragged line For the watering hole an old town left behind Under layers of mountains etched into the sky While old abandoned buildings whispered and sighed Half-buried in the rust-red sand When the night-time falls in this desert you’re in You’re driving tired at the wheel and your head starts to spin And you think you can make out these figures panning the sand For diamonds left stranded where the river once ran Your thoughts start to wander and your mind starts to stray And the dust in your headlights murmurs and sways As your windshield gets hit hard by a cold winter rain On the road to your dad’s new place on the coast of St. James And you remember that house on that hill in that storm And you remember well sleeping there safe and warm While all manner of spirits filled the room in the night Carried in by waves crashing on the rocks outside And you’re all the while standing in front of that stained glass mirror But the candles are low so you step in near And you see yourself walking on your old route home With your hands in your pockets and your head bowed low And you get to the sidewalk outside your flat But there’s a light on in the window — someone beat you back And someplace far off a church bell rings An old clock ticks and a sparrow sings And you look up again and the shade’s been drawn And all that’s left for you to do my friend is wait for the dawn #DanielGadd #AboutStrangeLandsAndPeople #animation #lyricvideo

Daniel Gadd - A Scene from Some Old Poem (Official Visualiser) From the album ‘About Strange Lands and People’ – BUY / LISTEN: https://lnkfi.re/danielgadd FOLLOW: Bandcamp: https://danielgadd.bandcamp.com Website: https://danielgadd.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/danielgaddmusic Instagram: https://instagram.com/danielgaddmusic Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielgaddmusic Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7yjQG2WkOptNRfNKcZUUOJ?si=0mnIP1ypTgOTvKcx7-BSHA Apple: https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/daniel-gadd/1076398542 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DnGadd CREDITS: Performed by Daniel Gadd Written by Daniel Gadd Daniel Gadd (PRS) / Published by Sentric Music Limited Produced by Jonjo Keefe and Daniel Gadd Mixed by Jonjo Keefe Mastered by Cicely Balston Players: Daniel Gadd - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar Benoit Parmentier - Drums Jonjo Keefe - Bass Harnek Mudhar - Synth LYRICS: Well it seems like I spend all my time Trying to lift a curse Placed upon me by some grinning Trickster agent of the universe Do you ever feel like something Is bearing down on you I mean you’ve seen this thing around before But now it’s really, really got its claws in you And I’ve been around this whole wide world Traded my shadow for shelter and walking shoes Let me tell you a shadow’s not easy to lose I woke up by a river In the morning air Was like a scene from some old poem By Rimbaud or Baudelaire And this warm breeze I thought was leaving But it’s here to stay Guess I’ll lie here with my eyes closed Forget the cold today I had a lot of trouble in my mind But I can’t quite Recall it now And I’ve known a lot of loneliness and sorrow But they’re just sinking in this river Like a stone #DanielGadd #AboutStrangeLandsAndPeople #ASceneFromSomeOldPoem