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I Don't Wanna Perform For Love No More

by Lach

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I don’t wanna perform for love no more Don’t wanna perform for love Drops of praise falling from above I don’t wanna perform for love I don’t want love I gotta earn no more Don’t want a love I gotta earn If there’s one thing that I have learned I don’t want love I gotta earn I got my tools I did the work I ain’t no fool I divorced the jerks I did my time I paid my debt I’m feeling fine Got no regrets I don’t wanna love that puts me down no more Don’t want love that puts me down I played that game all over town I don’t want love that puts me down I don’t want love that hides from me no more I don’t want love that hides I’m done going on that ride I don’t want love that hides I got my tools I did the work I ain’t no fool I divorced the jerks I did my time I paid my debt I’m feeling fine Got no regrets I don’t wanna perform for love no more Don’t wanna perform for love Drops of praise falling from above I don’t wanna perform for love

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I wrote a poem about recording this single. Here ya go:

Love Note
I need to sing the word “love” today
An octave higher than middle C
All the way up to that high E

A note that’s not that easy for me
It’s the final word of the song
A climax worthy of Orbison
And though I’m not him

It is the note that I have written
There is a pause before the note
For me to breathe, to clear my throat
To get psyched and to hope
That I can sing what I wrote

There are alternatives, I suppose
I could lower the key, to wit, transpose
Or join the plastic squad of goons
Acquiesce and autotune

But each key has it’s own personality
To change the scale would be blasphemy
Simply due to performance anxiety?
Never! O love, O song, stand by me!

The word is love and love is real
And I want to sing exactly how I feel
Sharp or flat, I won’t conceal
My heart, my voice, my love revealed!

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released December 16, 2023

Lach - Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Organ, Drums, Percussion, Bass
Produced & Engineered by Lach at Eden B Studios, Scotland
Cover Art by Phil Burgess

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

‘Splendid! Best of it's kind!’- Mojo

‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

‘Best punk guitarist since Johnny Ramone.’-Billy Ficca of Televis
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