Geographer’s Meike Deni recently returned with his new Down and Out In The Garden Of Earthly Delights (released via Nettwerk).
We previously shared album cut “Peripheral Vision” and today return with the emotional “Giving In.” The powerhouse emotional ballad cuts deep, as it is a personal one for the songwriter, with this version offering a stripped-down take that he recorded at home, capturing a tough moment in his life:
This song is one that is very precious to me. I wrote it after breaking up with a girlfriend many years ago. I was shocked at how sad it made me, since I was the one who made the decision, but love gone is lost, whether you send it on its way, or it leaves you in the lurch. And I got drunk during the day, which I never do, but it seemed fitting to just wallow for once. I went to my piano and wrote this song while I cried. Well, actually I wrote two fragments that day; one was called ‘Lonely,’ which I released on my Alone Time EP, and the other was called ‘Giving In,’ which I sat on for many years because I couldn’t convince people that anyone would want to listen to a song that had truly no hope in it at all, unless you count the fact that it was pretty.
Enjoy a live from home performance from Deni of the track which we have shared below.
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