Hey, that's a sweet song... there must be a backstory behind this collab... I'll go looking for it on the forum boards. But anyway without reading that, I thought it was a very smoothly produced and well sung track. As Karen has said the two voices are uncannily similar in timbre; you can just about tell it is two different people but might easily not notice! So that in itself lent the track something special. I did think it had great verses and pre-choruses but expected the chorus to come in after "Is this our destiny?" and take it to new places - a rewrite inserting something soaring there would take this to another level, from the already strong foundations it has.
The backstory is that I wrote this in the mid 90s as a duet for me and my wife. I could actually play it (badly!) on my synthesizer and we ended up making a live recording by taping it on an C90 cassette (I'm sure at least some people here remember those!
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It wasn't brilliant but it was us and we liked it (even if she did improvise somewhat - something that Calia very wonderfully reproduced for me, which is why you get the "calling me" echo in one of the choruses. I was actually quite cross with my wife when she did that but came to like it in the end).
Unfortunately down the years that tape got misplaced (probably when moving sometime) and lost to history. And my keyboard, erm, "skills" have deteriorated to the point I would struggle to try playing it again myself. I also lost the original lyrics and had to rewrite them from memory several years back.
Anyway, Boydie, Calia and Jack all agreed to recreate the song so I could play it to my wife.
It's nowhere near my best writing (I've tried to rewrite the lyrics a few times over the recent years but keep coming back to near enough the original ones) but they mean a lot to me so they're some of my favourite lyrics.