Part I
[Dialogue: Helene Whiston & Kai Whiston]
My first ra-, my first rave was in the warehouse I was livin' in. I was go-, I went home and thought it was-, I went to my first rave by going home, babe, yeah. Y'know what I mean? And the whole place was, like, draped out, and I'd never seen anything like UV art before, so that just blew my mind to start with. Before anything else did, it was more the art side of it? And how cool it was? But y'know, I didn't even like the drugs or anything, it wasn't like, "Oh, I bet I'll do some drugs and I'll go somewhere." It was like, y'know, "Oh, wow!" Y'know?
Yeah
That was, that was mainly what I thought and how, likе, creative evеrybody's dress sense was? 'Cause I was, like, always really out there at school, it was, like, the sort of goth clothes and everything, so to see other, like, more sort of way out and more colourful, it was just, it was just amazing, Kai
Yeah, and like, (Yeah) like you didn't, like, like the music
Yeah, I didn't even listen, I've never listened to any music like that before, y'know. It was, like, The Cure and, it wasn't like I listened to the music and then went to the rave. I'd, like, heard it all... that... minute. Y'know, that was, as soon as I walked home, and then, like, people started piling in from London and all, all of these places, the whole place was [rowdy?]. And even my bedroom went like that, y'know? There was, like, three separate rooms of the, like, warehouse, and the bathroom that we sort of put on, and... yeah. It was just like, "Woah," but I got into it, y'know?
Yeah, it was exciting
It, it blew me away, it really did. Yeah, and then I literally lived for it, y'know, literally. But that was more like when it wasn't so fash-, wasn't fashionable, it was, like, really alternative and there was loads of travellers. On these three parties there'd be, like, hundreds of different vehicles with wicked doors on and, like, loads of cool art. It was just like, "Wow," y'know, "I want this, I wanna do this." 'Cause I'd already met travellers when I was doing my work experience at school? So, I was taken by this photographer for, like, these people livin' in the bender, and I already thought, "Oh my god, that's amazing," y'know, "Wow, these people live like that, I would love to do that." So, seeing that at a rave just made it even better, Kai, y'know?
[?]
Yeah, I, it, y'know, it literally just, from the whole, the whole scene of it, it wasn't just the music, it was the, the artwork, the clothes that everyone was wearing, y'know, it was all of that, it was just a big package of wonderful... Haha, are you recording me?
No, I'm not
Are you interviewing me?
[?]
[?] Yeah, no, I know, honey, it's ama-, it was amazing. It really was, y'know. It really, really was. It kind of, it just changed, [I've became adjusted now?], and you still had raves and [?] but the travellers weren't there anymore, and it, it wasn't [?] y'know?
[?]
Yeah, you only saw the, like, the end of it [?] and they went off to like Portugal, and Spain, and places like that, that's why [?] huge, like, traveller society, really [?]
Part II
[Verse 1: Kai Whiston]
It crept into the site, into our lives like a thief
It stole the colour from our lives
It stole the memories from our minds
Only grey could replace the fear
I can't take this now
In this Tin Foil Jerusalem
How this holy land
Of heroes and heroin
[Verse 2: Kai Whiston]
It wraps around you like a cloak
I need help, I don't know where I need it most
A shawl to keep you warm
It covers everything in sight
A white blanket to keep you safe
And what if she fell that same night?
In the fog, all is hidden
In the fog, all is concealed
In the fog, I lost my father
In the fog, my mum can heal
[Verse 3: Kai Whiston]
For our gods we asked the questions
Feet on the ground, we had to deal
Full of grey, my head was spinning
Fueled on grief, I kept it still
She told me she would have ended her life
If it weren't for what I give
[Pre-Chorus: Kai Whiston]
Flesh on glass
Feel our guilt
From our group
From our greed
[Chorus: Kai Whiston]
Full of grey, my head was spinning
Fueled on grief, I kept it still
Full of grey, my head was spinning
Fueled on grief, I kept it still
Full of grey, my head was spinning
Fueled on grief, I kept it still
[Instrumental]
[Outro: Helene Whiston & Kai Whiston]
Alright, take care
Take care
Call me if you need me
Alright, I'll see you
Alright, bye bye, baby, bye
Shh!
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