Coasting

From 2019 album 'Future Perfect, Present Tense'. The story of Ten Fé is a love story, of sorts. For the songwriters at the centre of it – Ben Moorhouse and Leo Duncan – the band is the eventual realisation of two respective careers spent navigating the bumpy terrain of the music industry. Both have been in bands before, some successful, some less so, until in each-other they finally found a musical partnership built on a deeper understanding. Leo Duncan is from the Black country - the ‘armpit of England’, he jokes – raised in an Irish household, steeped in a tradition of folk singing. Ben Moorhouse is from East London and found his musical feet at school – picking up a guitar, and moving through Britpop into psychedelia and then jazz as he progressed through his teenage years and onto a Royal Academy music degree. They met around the time Ben was enjoying success playing bass in indie outfit Golden Silvers and the pair began working together on the side-lines.

[Verse 1] The night is warmer now I want to hold it Let's walk the night again My mind was occupied My eye was roving But I let it go Turn the world away [Chorus] Everybody's running around Telling me that I should be more All last night I wanted was to hold you next to me and not move at all Everybody's telling me I'm half the man I used to be But I've only lost what I didn't want There's a fire outside but I'm warm And here I'm coasting Here I'm coasting [Verse 2] And in the pouring light I want to hold it Put on my blindfold again If I never say goodbye don't come and haunt me Let me go Turn the world away [Chorus] Everybody's running around Telling me that I should be more All last night I wanted was to hold you next to me and not move at all Everybody's telling me I'm half the man I used to be But I've only lost what I didn't want There's a fire outside but I'm warm And here I'm coasting Here I'm coasting [Bridge] I'm just saying Maybe I'm no saint But in your closed arm this crown of thorns Begins to lose its way [Chorus] Everybody's running around Telling me that I should be more All last night I wanted was to hold you next to me and not move at all Oh, last night I wanted Everybody's telling me I'm half the man I used to be But I've only lost what I didn't want There's a fire outside but I'm warm [Outro] And here I'm coasting Here I'm coasting And here I'm coasting (I'm giving all I have) Ooh (I'm giving all I have) Here I'm coasting (I'm giving all I have) Here I'm coasting (I'm giving all I have) Here I'm coasting