WILL PEMBROKEMusic / Selected work

Will Pembroke

NOW I’M HERE

Now I’m Here captures the early days of Will’s life in Los Angeles. A companion piece to Before I Go, these songs were written around six months later, but from the other side of the Atlantic.

Left unrecorded as life in LA gathered pace and the world of Pill Wembroke took over, the songs remained a quiet, unfinished chapter. Returning to them ten years later became a way of preserving that earlier voice—a musical time capsule of a particular place, perspective and moment in life.

Will Pembroke by the sea

Now I’m Here / Lyrics

Daisy Chain
I made you a daisy chain From the tangled strings of my heart Gambling with my sanity To get a better view Holding instability At arm's length for you to see Hoping you to transport me To another world You gave it away My daisy chain Living in this fantasy When red is run with iodine The clouds know how to torture me And knock me from my feet You gave it away My daisy chain You gave it away My daisy chain Strawberry sunshine in my nose As the sorbet skies overflow Understands me more than anyone I will ever hope to know Why do I feel so lost inside? Strawberry sunshine in my nose As the sorbet skies overflow Understands me more than anyone I will ever hope to know Why do I feel so lost inside? Why do I feel so alone? Why do I feel so lost inside? I gave you a daisy chain From the tangled strings
Society's Scientist
Just a boy living California He lost his mind integrating all the formulas Of what he thought And how he saw the world A disease lurking beneath the skin No memory of the box which we've been living in He's got a heart But no one cares to know Why? Why? Why? Why you got to ask so much? Don't quantify Breathing numbers can be tough You've crossed the line Now you're gonna lose your human touch Society's scientist, society's fool These gilded norms, they can be hard to navigate So just be strong, you do not need to take the blame You should know It's a symptom, not a curse Create the gaps, then you have to live by them Remember that the truth does not mean happiness I hope you've learnt There is no right or wrong Why? Why? Why? Why you got to ask so much? Don't quantify Breathing numbers can be tough You've crossed the line Now you're gonna lose your human touch Society's scientist, society's fool Society's scientist, society's fool
Bruise
I need an inspiration I need another muse These words that I've held inside I wanna give them all to you I'm feeling such emotion I need an avenue To say it all at once I wanna give it all to you All to you, yeah Floating over oceans In this hot air balloon You're the fire I need inside To keep me out of the blue I need a little patience Before my heart can bloom Like the droplets in a rainbow I'm dreaming all the colours of you Oooh, again Of you, again You know, I don't care what the others say Even if it's true You know I'll love you all the same Even if I bruise I need to find my reason I need to find it soon Before I build my ship To sail me to the moon I'm searching for the answer I'm hiding from the truth I fear I lost myself When I gave it all to you Oooh, again To you, oooh, again You know, I don't care what the others say Even if it's true You know I'll love you all the same Even if I bruise
Glitter
We used to smoke life down to the filter As we'd watch the falling ash turn to glitter We'd dance all night With smiles in our eyes Our minds were lost up with the constellations As our thoughts looped on with our conversations That night I woke To the other side Oh baby you made me so high Maybe you'll save me tonight The world is too big to be trapped in a cage Now I've spread my wings and I've made my way I always thought I could make it alone Now life is good but it's not the same When you're watching me from so far away You should know you made it my home Oh baby you made me so high Maybe you'll save me tonight Oh baby you made me so high Maybe you'll save me tonight When my journey comes to end I wonder if we'll still be friends Or will this all just be a memory It's on my mind I can't pretend Even though I've made my bed You should know that I still believe Oh baby you made me so high Maybe you'll save me tonight
Grey
Light it for the world Light it for yourself Your moonlit dreams Are fading with your health You're hiding from the world Hiding from yourself Use your heart before There's nothing left So find another way Don't you be so grey Don't be grey Light it for the world Light it for yourself I'd hate to hear Your beauty's been suppressed Don't listen to your boss Don't listen to your friends They don't know The fight that never ends So find another way Don't you be so grey Don't be grey, yeah You're riding on this motorcycle Hiding from the darkness of your mind Numb to all the passing faces Even those that felt like home Memories are now forgotten Even those you swore you'd hold
Heaven's In My Head
I never liked the rain till I met you Now the tens in my pocket are soaked right through But money don't mean that much to me The lakes have dried, the rain has stopped Don't know what I was thinking of Before I realised The rain will pull the colours through Lovers and brothers gather round Don't you know we run this town Just cut those strings up off your back I'm running red to indigo These layered waves all in a row You don't need the sun For the rain to pull the colours through The rain will pull the colours through The rain will pull the colours Oh Ohh, heaven's in my head Ohh, heaven's in my head Ohh, heaven's in my Can you feel it? Can you feel it too? What you see is what you get So train your eyes to see the best Of what the world has to offer you Even in your darkest days Feel the brightness in your brain And you will start to see That the rain will pull the colours through The rain will pull the colours through The rain will pull the colours Oh Ohh, heaven's in my head Ohh, heaven's in my head Ohh, heaven's in my Can you feel it? Can you feel it too? The rain will pull the colours through The rain will pull the colours through The rain will pull the colours through The rain will pull the colours through Oh Ohh, heaven's in my head Ohh, heaven's in my head Ohh, heaven's in my Can you feel it? Can you feel it too? Oh Ohh, heaven's in my head Ohh, heaven's in my head Ohh, heaven's in my Can you feel it? Can you feel it too?
Home
Home, I'll find my way Home, I'll make my way Into the darkness I walk alone Leaving behind All I've ever known Without the lights I am free Escaping shadows Which cling to me It's the price I pay to live in a dream Oh, I've cast my rocks far into the sea These words I sing and the spaces between You should know, I'm coming Home, I'll find my way Home, I'll make my way Into the darkness I hoped to grow Building my sculptures From marble and stone But have I made My effigy Burning bright For all to see It's the price I pay to live in a dream Oh, I've cast my rocks far into the sea The words I say and the spaces between You should know, I'm coming Home, I'll find my way Home, I'll make my way Home Home, I'll make my way Out of the darkness and into your arms Will you forgive me for taking so long? My skin has wrinkled and my heart is worn Will you remember? I'm coming Home, I'll find my way
Let Me Go
You said that you loved me when you laid down on my bed Words forever haunting as they linger in my head I know you know One day I'll go To have you in my life now, it tastes so bitter sweet For now I have realized you're everything I need After you've gone now, who will bring the flowers home? Who will light the candles and who will feel your bones? I know you know One day you'll go I know you know Hold me close Don't you dare to let me go Hold me close Don't let me go Now I'm left to dream again, for nights that might have been Awaiting greedy fingers to rush across my skin All I have are memories, which I'm afraid to lose Fading into apathy, is it the same for you? I know you know One day they'll go I know you know Hold me close Don't you dare to let me go Hold me close Don't let me go Don't let me go Don't let me go Promise me that you won't forget So this moment will never end Always here with you Don't let me go Hold me close Don't you let me go
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