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about

We live in turbulent times. Climate change, loss of animals and plant species, violence, wars, refugees, poverty and ….

Yet when one talks to most people in the richer countries, it is like fake news and not their problem.

For many, it feels like their bubble is shopping, looking cute or the next best thrill.

But maybe the next big thrill will be something they don’t expect or want: Like, if we don’t deal with the world as it is, the world may come knocking on our door and deal with us!

No secrets is partly a way of expressing frustration and the seeming obsession with the self, the turning away from reality and a kind of fin de siècle atmosphere with people riding around on a fun fair carousel, unable or unwilling to get off and face up to reality.

‘Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you,’ paraphrasing John Donne, the 15C English poet or in my song: “Oh my love, can you hear the church bells chime. As we go around the carousel, for one last time”

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She picks her lovers like sweets, from a paper bag.
Checks through her I-phone for her next dinner dates.
Checks that her coat matches her new cool shoulder pads,
Can’t see the mob as they crash through her garden gates

He sips green tea he saw in a Tinder app.
Flicks through GQ for the next, cool, grooming tips.
Pats his new abs that he bought from a doctor in Harley Street,
Can’t hear the bomb as it blows off his manicured lips.

Oh my love, can you hear church bells chime?
As we go around the carousel, for one last time.

They’re drowning like rats in the middle of the Mittlemeer.
Drone strikes kill 10,000 school kids in southern Sudan.
A bat in Newhaven poisons shoppers in Rotterdam.
But we don’t care, we’ve still got Netflix on demand.

Oh my love, can you hear the church bells chime?
As with go around the carousel, for one last time.

Oh my love, can you hear the church bells chime?
As we go around the carousel, for one last time.

Oh my love, can you hear the church bells chime?
As we go around the carousel, for one last time.

Oh my love, there are no more secrets to hide,
As we go around the carousel, for one last ride.

credits

from Just Because Some Bad Wind Blows, released May 5, 2023
Recorded and Engineered in Berlin 2021
Produced by: Bernadette Hengst
Music & lyrics: Nick Nuttall
Voice, guitar: Nick Nuttall
Guitar, bass, piano, backing vocals: Bernadette Hengst
Drums: Bärbel Schwarz

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Nick Nuttall Berlin, Germany

Nick is both a musician and a climate activist living in Berlin, Germany. His songs are small, miniature, short stories cast in often melancholic melodies and perhaps inspired by 70s and 80s songwriters like Carole King, James Taylor, Fairport convention, Joni Mitchell and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions.

Just Because Some Bad Wind Blows has been produced by Bernadette La Hengst ... more

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