SPRING GANG FEAT. ASTYN TURR - BETTER PLACE

BETTER PLACE

SPRING GANG FEAT. ASTYN TURR

SONGWRITERS: RACHEL PLATTEN & SALLY SELTMANN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: NOW I’M ALL YOURS

LABEL: EPIDEMIC SONG

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 2019

 

      Spring were an English progressive rock band from Leicester.

        They released only one album in their career, a self-titled LP in 1971. Spring's music is notable for the use of the mellotron with three of its five members credited with playing that instrument on the album. Songs for a second album were recorded but not released at the time. They were later released on CD together with some demos as Untitled 2, as a bonus CD on the Esoteric CD release of 2015, and as a bootleg vinyl album Spring 2(with Roger Dean cover). Three of the tracks were used as bonus on the single CD edition of the first album.

      Spring originally consisted of Pat Moran (vocals), Ray Martinez (guitars), Kips Brown (keyboards), Pick Withers(drums) and Adrian Maloney(bass), all of whom had previously played in various local Leicester bands.

       A turning point in Spring's fortunes happened after a gig in Cardiff, when the band's van broke down somewhere in the Welsh countryside, coincidentally very near where producer/engineer Kingsley Ward had recently set up Rockfield Studios. Ward would later marvel at the "coincidence of meeting a group with a broken down truck in your own home town when you have previously spent months traipsing around the country in search of talent". He was particularly intrigued by the fact that they owned a mellotron, and "invited them down the following week for an audition with my brother Charles and myself", the outcome of which was "good enough for us to want to be involved with them". Several demo sessions followed. The band were rehearsing at Rockfield when producer Gus Dudgeon (of David Bowie and Elton John fame) dropped by to check the studio out, heard them play and expressed interest in producing them. A few months later, sessions took place at both Rockfield and London's Trident Studios, and the resulting album was released on the RCA/Neon label in 1971.

There's a sparkle in your eyes

I feel the warmth of your skin

Just the touch of your hand

Makes me tremble within

Love the smell of your hair

Lying here in our bed, oh

Never gonna be alone

'Cause with you I'm finally coming home

 

I want to be with you always

'Cause that is what my heart says, (that's what my heart says)

I want to be with you always

You are my world in every place

It's the things that you do

And it's the smile on your face

And as time goes by (I know)

I know I'm in a better place

I'm in a better place

 

Without your love I am out of place

And without you I am just a trace

I love you with all of my heart

Together forever, never to part

 

I want to be with you always

'Cause that is what my heart says, (that's what my heart says)

I want to be with you always (always yeah)

You are my world in every place, oh woah

It's the things that you do, (it's the things you do baby)

And it's the smile on your face (smile on your face)

And as time goes by (I know)

I know I'm in a better place

I'm in a better place

 

It's the things that you do (the things that you can oh)

And it's the smile on your face (the smile on your face)

And as time goes by, (I know)

I know I'm in a better place

I'm in a better place.