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‘Better Than This’ is Tracy Bruen’s first new music since the 2020 radio hit ‘Dream Away’
A song about love and loss, ‘Better Than This’, captures the songwriter’s realisation that life’s challenges and heartaches make us who we are and strengthen the bonds of love in the relationships that matter the most. Galway’s Tracy Bruen is back with a song to soothe the soul and shine a big shiny light of hope on the future. Recorded and mixed by Ray Diamond, Better Than This was written by Tracy and arranged collaboratively by the whole band.
The song is accompanied by a heartwarming video directed by filmmaker AMW Visual, who has directed many of Tracy's previous releases, including Dream Away. Galway photographer EMJ Camera, has lent a selection of her stunning series of lockdown photos to the video. She explains... “All of the photos for this independent ‘Self Isolation Portrait’ project were taken during the first lockdown in 2020, the time when people couldn't see many other faces or leave their houses. People posed at their safe place-at their doorstep, introducing one of the new hobbies they took up since the world went into a shutdown. The agenda was very simple- to show some positive and uplifting news, as well as to link and support each other during the doom and gloom times.”
“As a photographer, I wanted to document that current situation through my own angle that had no negativity and give a bit of a bright spark to the community. The whole process ended up being incredibly fulfilling and heartwarming, revisiting some old friends and even making new ones.”
“This project taught me that every bad situation can be turned into something positive.”
lyrics
I looked at you lately
With a smile in your eyes
Well it doesn’t get better than
Better than this.
Do we fix what’s mended?
Break to reheal?
When it couldn’t get better than
Better than this
I try to imagine what change could bring
In the space between us
Hope flies on a wing
Dreamer my lover in fortune I win
Oh it couldn’t get better than this.
And it’s been a long fall
From there to here
But it doesn’t get better than
Better than this
Though we stare at the road
Less travelled in fear
It couldn’t get better than
Better than this
Contemplating the time and the cost and the risk
Of love’s future loss
Or moments of bliss
Time’s running out I don’t want to miss
Oh It doesn’t get better than this.
I love
I love your face in the morning
Or your breath on my cheek
In the moments before sleep
Your heart
Fills mine
(Instrumental and repeat chorus)
Now we talk about difficult things
And our
Hearts are sore
Your hand in my hand
Wipe the tears
From our eyes
This is real life, this is our life,
This is real life, this is our life
This is real love, this is our love
This is real love, this is our love
Our love.
credits
released April 13, 2021
Tracy Bruen, vocals and guitar
Adam Downey, drums
Padraig Joyce, electric guitars
Shane O’Malley, bass
Neil Fitzgibbon, Fiddle
Laura Lynn, Lorraine Flanagan and Tracy Bruen – backing vocals (with thanks to Lorraine Gilchreest and Jenny Groarke for invaluable contributions)
Galway singer-songwriter, multi instrumentalist and spellbinding vocalist, Tracy Bruen, blends and bends folk, prog and pop
with classical and theatrical influences to create epic compositions of power and vulnerability which lie between the folk stylings of Joni Mitchell and art pop of Kate Bush.
Her second album "Waiting", will be released this year. ...more
Citog Records have released a number of fantastic mixtapes of the artists who have played at their night in the cellar bar. I'm on this one! Tracy Bruen
supported by 5 fans who also own “Better Than This”
Paddy took chances. The album just has a sound that can only stem from him being true to himself. It's intricate, well-arranged, poetic, and hilarious. Hell of an album from a hell of a guy! digerydude
Scottish singer-songwriter shares poignant lessons on time and relationships against a sweeping folk backdrop studded with field recordings. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 5, 2023