[Music]
as you’ve heard my name
crane I’m a singer/songwriter
I’m here to break up the talking with a
bit of music to ease you into the second
half of the day I’m going to play three
of my songs if I can fit it in I’m also
going to talk a little bit about my
seven fundamental truths about
songwriting it could have been a 127 but
I’m going to try and fit seven in and
I’m also going to try and lighten and
lift the mood with my songs of misery
despair and ultimately death
14 minutes to go
[Music]
sky black with rain weekend away
[Music]
standing at your door I’ll call your
name call call again he’d left some time
before
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
lately lately so line
lately so line
I drove for miles my eyes on fire not
knowing how to say cord in my head
details left on set finding you that way
[Music]
[Music]
lately lately Zhou line
[Music]
ladies all I know
[Music]
sky white with snow day trip van huh
borrowed singh borrowed shoe life goes
on it’s true the lately I miss you blame
these all I know
[Music]
lately is all I know
[Music]
thank you so as I said I’m here to
lighten the mood
I’m a singer-songwriter what that means
is for the last 20 years I’ve made a
living writing songs predominantly for
myself mostly about misery despair and
death but I’ve also written for other
artists I’ve written for X Factor
winners and X Factor losers I’ve written
for rock legends I’ve written for people
on their way up and people on their way
down don’t ask me which I am I’ve also
written for film and TV I’ve had my
music used unsurprisingly in bleak
Norwegian indie movies I’ve also written
for kids TV shows in Belgium I’ve had my
music used to sell you everything from
perfumes to cars and the other year I
just wrote a song from mattress advert
which I am especially proud and I have
one stated ambition whoever I’m working
with if it’s for me or another artist as
I’m trying to write a song I’m trying to
find an ache I’m trying to find a moment
I’m trying to in three and a half
minutes break your heart and put it back
together again that’s what I’m aiming
for sometimes you end up selling
mattresses but I’m also going to quickly
try and fit in as many of my principles
of songwriting my fundamental truths of
songwriting the first fundamental truth
of songwriting is that songwriting is
really easy there are days when the time
it takes you to sing a song can be the
time it takes you to write that song
those are the good days those are the
days when this completely fully formed
thing is handed to you as if by the
Angels and it feels like you had nothing
to do with it and you can’t claim any
ownership or authorship of that song but
it doesn’t stop you doing that because
obviously your name needs to be on the
royalty cheque so you say yes I wrote
that song those are the good days so the
fundamental first truth of songwriting
is it’s really easy
second fundamental truth about
songwriting it’s really hard there are
days when you’re working with other
people and it feels like you’re climbing
up Mount Everest and instead of having
oxygen tanks strapped to your back
you’ve got two very average wannabe
starlets those are the hard days but
there are rewards in those hard days as
much as the easy days as long as you
finish because that’s the third
fundamental truth of songwriting is you
have to finish it’s the same with any
creative endeavor anything you’re making
you have to finish it because if you
don’t finish it it forever stays in your
imagination in a state of flux and it’s
all full of coiled potential this song
that no one’s yet heard it could be the
song that feeds the world that ends all
wars that makes mankind finally love and
appreciate each other can equally be a
song that sells mattresses but unless
you finish it you won’t know and the
first rule I have with anyone who comes
into the studio with me as we finish
your song if it’s for me if it’s for you
we finished that song sometimes I’ll get
three artists in a day you get two hours
with them you’ve finished the song
because until you finish that song it’s
always here just floating in a state of
flux and if you don’t finish you will
never learn and you’ll never be able to
move on from that song I try and fit in
another one now
this is about being scared about growing
old and dying and losing your loved one
I’ve exchanged every cell in my body
turned into someone new but I still see
through the same eyes when I close them
I see
[Music]
there’s nothing like donate in the
morning so for the parts that are you’re
an injury I’m gonna carry tea
[Music]
for the law
so let me grow me let me
grow old with you did I sleep and miss
the board slipping into gray being angry
and sad and fearful tired of living
love me bad decision sober worse ones
when I’m drunk think about decisions
dearest one good ones in them
so let me
[Music]
let me grow me from now on we draw a lot
Steve what the lines in our hands will
decide you hold out for sunset dodge the
lightning strikes
dodge the lightning strikes
so thank you moving swiftly on a song
about misery death and despair the next
fundamental rule of songwriting is that
all songwriters are murderers you can
tell by looking at me the thing about
being a murderer is you have to kill all
the other potential songs in order to
finish one when you write a song any
creative endeavor it carries with it all
the ghosts of all the other things it
could be but you have to make a decision
and you have to finish that song and
that means killing all the other
fantastic permutations you have to make
a decision and they’re your colours to
the mast and it’s scary and that’s why
when you perform you sometimes have a
haunted look because you’re remembering
all the other ghosts of the song that
that one could have been quickly moving
on to the next fundamental truth of
songwriting taste experience and craft
all those things you’ve gathered over
the years taste experienced in craft
they are your fundamental enemy when it
comes to songwriting they are the things
that will sit on your shoulder and tell
you don’t start the song you can never
be Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan any of
your heroes why bother why star taste
craft and experience your worst enemies
the next fundamental truth about
songwriting taste craft and experience
are your best friends when you’ve
started a song when you’ve had the
courage to dive in make a fool of
yourself and feel vulnerable when you’ve
got that first ache of an idea taste
craft and experience will be the
midwives that hold your hand through the
process and help you deliver that song
into the world and it might not be the
best song in the world that ends or wars
feeds the starving makes people love
each other it might be a song that just
sells mattresses but you need your taste
and craft experience to get through they
are both simultaneously your worst enemy
and your best friend I’m going to try
and fit in one last song
[Music]
in the photograph
I still see the spa long gone now wreck
over fire it’s time to face the fact
there’s no second we’re down with the
dead now
forgotten and cold while I’m still
captain but the sinking ship gonna go
down boy Sonali
[Music]
yeah
look it’s homey
against home which brings me to the
final fundamental truth about
songwriting you have to start the
process with hope you have to carry on
the process with hope you have to finish
the song thinking that why not change
the world but it might sell a few
mattresses but you might get lucky and
it might change the world
but without hope you’ll never start
without hope you’ll never finish even
Paul McCartney wakes up thinking today’s
the day I write a song better than
yesterday
[Music]
it’s gonna be ok it’s gonna be ok it’s
gonna be ok
[Music]
schooner vir okay got 20 seconds to help
me out sing this schooner be okay
[Music]
it’s gonna be okay
thank you
[Applause]
as you’ve heard my name
crane I’m a singer/songwriter
I’m here to break up the talking with a
bit of music to ease you into the second
half of the day I’m going to play three
of my songs if I can fit it in I’m also
going to talk a little bit about my
seven fundamental truths about
songwriting it could have been a 127 but
I’m going to try and fit seven in and
I’m also going to try and lighten and
lift the mood with my songs of misery
despair and ultimately death
14 minutes to go
[Music]
sky black with rain weekend away
[Music]
standing at your door I’ll call your
name call call again he’d left some time
before
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
lately lately so line
lately so line
I drove for miles my eyes on fire not
knowing how to say cord in my head
details left on set finding you that way
[Music]
[Music]
lately lately Zhou line
[Music]
ladies all I know
[Music]
sky white with snow day trip van huh
borrowed singh borrowed shoe life goes
on it’s true the lately I miss you blame
these all I know
[Music]
lately is all I know
[Music]
thank you so as I said I’m here to
lighten the mood
I’m a singer-songwriter what that means
is for the last 20 years I’ve made a
living writing songs predominantly for
myself mostly about misery despair and
death but I’ve also written for other
artists I’ve written for X Factor
winners and X Factor losers I’ve written
for rock legends I’ve written for people
on their way up and people on their way
down don’t ask me which I am I’ve also
written for film and TV I’ve had my
music used unsurprisingly in bleak
Norwegian indie movies I’ve also written
for kids TV shows in Belgium I’ve had my
music used to sell you everything from
perfumes to cars and the other year I
just wrote a song from mattress advert
which I am especially proud and I have
one stated ambition whoever I’m working
with if it’s for me or another artist as
I’m trying to write a song I’m trying to
find an ache I’m trying to find a moment
I’m trying to in three and a half
minutes break your heart and put it back
together again that’s what I’m aiming
for sometimes you end up selling
mattresses but I’m also going to quickly
try and fit in as many of my principles
of songwriting my fundamental truths of
songwriting the first fundamental truth
of songwriting is that songwriting is
really easy there are days when the time
it takes you to sing a song can be the
time it takes you to write that song
those are the good days those are the
days when this completely fully formed
thing is handed to you as if by the
Angels and it feels like you had nothing
to do with it and you can’t claim any
ownership or authorship of that song but
it doesn’t stop you doing that because
obviously your name needs to be on the
royalty cheque so you say yes I wrote
that song those are the good days so the
fundamental first truth of songwriting
is it’s really easy
second fundamental truth about
songwriting it’s really hard there are
days when you’re working with other
people and it feels like you’re climbing
up Mount Everest and instead of having
oxygen tanks strapped to your back
you’ve got two very average wannabe
starlets those are the hard days but
there are rewards in those hard days as
much as the easy days as long as you
finish because that’s the third
fundamental truth of songwriting is you
have to finish it’s the same with any
creative endeavor anything you’re making
you have to finish it because if you
don’t finish it it forever stays in your
imagination in a state of flux and it’s
all full of coiled potential this song
that no one’s yet heard it could be the
song that feeds the world that ends all
wars that makes mankind finally love and
appreciate each other can equally be a
song that sells mattresses but unless
you finish it you won’t know and the
first rule I have with anyone who comes
into the studio with me as we finish
your song if it’s for me if it’s for you
we finished that song sometimes I’ll get
three artists in a day you get two hours
with them you’ve finished the song
because until you finish that song it’s
always here just floating in a state of
flux and if you don’t finish you will
never learn and you’ll never be able to
move on from that song I try and fit in
another one now
this is about being scared about growing
old and dying and losing your loved one
I’ve exchanged every cell in my body
turned into someone new but I still see
through the same eyes when I close them
I see
[Music]
there’s nothing like donate in the
morning so for the parts that are you’re
an injury I’m gonna carry tea
[Music]
for the law
so let me grow me let me
grow old with you did I sleep and miss
the board slipping into gray being angry
and sad and fearful tired of living
love me bad decision sober worse ones
when I’m drunk think about decisions
dearest one good ones in them
so let me
[Music]
let me grow me from now on we draw a lot
Steve what the lines in our hands will
decide you hold out for sunset dodge the
lightning strikes
dodge the lightning strikes
so thank you moving swiftly on a song
about misery death and despair the next
fundamental rule of songwriting is that
all songwriters are murderers you can
tell by looking at me the thing about
being a murderer is you have to kill all
the other potential songs in order to
finish one when you write a song any
creative endeavor it carries with it all
the ghosts of all the other things it
could be but you have to make a decision
and you have to finish that song and
that means killing all the other
fantastic permutations you have to make
a decision and they’re your colours to
the mast and it’s scary and that’s why
when you perform you sometimes have a
haunted look because you’re remembering
all the other ghosts of the song that
that one could have been quickly moving
on to the next fundamental truth of
songwriting taste experience and craft
all those things you’ve gathered over
the years taste experienced in craft
they are your fundamental enemy when it
comes to songwriting they are the things
that will sit on your shoulder and tell
you don’t start the song you can never
be Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan any of
your heroes why bother why star taste
craft and experience your worst enemies
the next fundamental truth about
songwriting taste craft and experience
are your best friends when you’ve
started a song when you’ve had the
courage to dive in make a fool of
yourself and feel vulnerable when you’ve
got that first ache of an idea taste
craft and experience will be the
midwives that hold your hand through the
process and help you deliver that song
into the world and it might not be the
best song in the world that ends or wars
feeds the starving makes people love
each other it might be a song that just
sells mattresses but you need your taste
and craft experience to get through they
are both simultaneously your worst enemy
and your best friend I’m going to try
and fit in one last song
[Music]
in the photograph
I still see the spa long gone now wreck
over fire it’s time to face the fact
there’s no second we’re down with the
dead now
forgotten and cold while I’m still
captain but the sinking ship gonna go
down boy Sonali
[Music]
yeah
look it’s homey
against home which brings me to the
final fundamental truth about
songwriting you have to start the
process with hope you have to carry on
the process with hope you have to finish
the song thinking that why not change
the world but it might sell a few
mattresses but you might get lucky and
it might change the world
but without hope you’ll never start
without hope you’ll never finish even
Paul McCartney wakes up thinking today’s
the day I write a song better than
yesterday
[Music]
it’s gonna be ok it’s gonna be ok it’s
gonna be ok
[Music]
schooner vir okay got 20 seconds to help
me out sing this schooner be okay
[Music]
it’s gonna be okay
thank you
[Applause]
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