Nothing's In My Way

Good morning, afternoon and evening from me in England!
I've now been back at school for 3 weeks and barely have enough time to write and play music.
Here's a track from my new album which you can find on
https://songwhip.com/darren-claxton/lost-songs

'Nothing's In My Way' is a song about living with anxiety and the daily obstacles and hurdles it throws at us. I'm pretty sure that many people can relate to that, right? but you know what? It doesn't rule my life anymore!, I do!

Please feel free to comment, as I always like to know how people manage their own anxieties and mental health issues, and how they cope and live with these debilitating conditions throughout their daily lives. Music is such a massive part of me, and is an invaluable therapy that I embrace as much as I can.

I wrote and recorded this song a few months ago and re-visited it again today. I mixed it down on my trusty old friend - Zoom MRS 1608 It was all done in 1 take and layered. The drums were recorded with a couple of SM57's and 2 overhead condensers for that real raw live sound. We've (My Zoom and me) been through a lot over the past 10 years: 4 houses, 3 ex girlfriends, 2 dogs, 2 cats and hours of fun!

Lyrics:

Woke up late this morning
thinking same shit different day
what could possibly go wrong
nothing stands in my way,
in my way
nothing's in my way

Took my happy tablet which helps me to find a way
helps with my anxiety then everything's OK
it's OK
everything's OK

Do I even care if you don't know the strength of your own mind
people stop and stare at you and talk together time to time
Do I even care if you don't know the strength of your own mind
people stop and stare at you and talk together time to time

When the feelings rearrange I feel like running free
who will come and find me there it's necessarily
all of me, it is always of me

Woke up late this morning
thinking same shit different day
what could possibly go wrong
nothing stands in my way,
in my way
nothing's in my way

Thanks for taking the time to visit and listen to this track of mine!

Cheers

Darren

Darren, looks like you are working hard - hopefully staying clear of the Covid, it's been quite a year for us all so far!

I'm putting together a UK Hivers meet up for around September or October at my coffee shed in Yorkshire - it might be a bit far for you to travel but if you could not be there in person could I play some of your Awesome music? Maybe you could do a post with your favourite work I can play for the meet up? I'd really like to promote our amazing UK musicians like you and @nickyhavey

Also I'm trying to get more of us UK Hivers supporting each others posts, so if you want you can use the tag #teamuk to make it easier for everyone to find posts from the UK - and the tag is followed by a community support account I created and a bunch of awesome Brit's delegated to so you also get a supportive upvote using it.