Little Scraps Of Paper

Camper Van Demo

Project Freeman · Little Scraps Of Paper

Written with Cliff Coates

(Based on a 1990 Gregorian Haley/Coates idea)

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Lyrics

Written with Cliff Coates

Write it down

Before it’s lost forever

Share it now while you still can

Make it real

The way you need to be

And feel inside

Yeah I should have told her how I felt inside

Cos now I hurt more, yes I hurt more than my foolish pride

Chorus:

It’s all on little scraps of paper

Running around my mind

She didn’t stay I couldn't make her

I'm not the making kind

And on those little scraps of paper

Is all that I should have said

What good are notes on fancy paper

When you leave them inside your head

Write it up

Send a postcard to your

Future selves to read

A tune may come

“Intunatively”

Introduce it to the words

Yeah I should have captured how I felt in song

'Cause I never showed her how I really felt and now she’s gone

Repeat Chorus

It’s all on little scraps of paper

(Little scraps, little scraps of paper)

The Story of 'Little Scraps Of Paper'

Little Scraps Of Paper

Like 'Thanks To You', the idea for this song came back in 1990 Gregorian and lay as notes in the 'Haley/Coates' songbook for about 18 years, until it was resurected during sessions for 'The SubTles' project in 2008.

Basically the idea was, don't leave the things you want to say in your head. Get them out, write them down and tell them to the one concerned before it's too late :/

We recorded a basic live track in my home studio with drums, bass, guitar and a guide vocal, but that guide vocal was pretty bad and needs an overdub, so for now we've just got this little camper van demo. Maybe one day I'll get around to that overdub!

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