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Not For Us

by Collo

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It has a Pop/Rock type feel in the style of Kelly Clarkson or Pink and features the powerful and emotive vocals of former US Idol finalist, London.

This song started with the "This Love Is Not For Us" line, which I heard in a movie and just thought that it would be great to do a song around this theme. Each verse is a "Scenario" - a separate mini story worked off the overall theme, with the Bridge melding all 3 scenarios together.

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NOT FOR US By Collo

SCENARIO 1
We live our lives in very different worlds;
Where I exist, you just can not be.
I won’t walk away from those who are in need;
I must protect them, because they depend on me.
(….because they all depend on me….)

CHORUS 1
Oh this love is not for us;
It’s so real and it’s so strong;
Oh this love is not for us;
That’s why saying goodbye just feels so wrong.

SCENARIO 2
We live our lives in the same world;
But I am bound whilst you are free.
Our thoughts align in very many strange ways;
Oh my wasted daydreams, devoid of reality.
(…my thoughts are devoid of reality….)

CHORUS 2
Oh this love is not for us;
It’s so real and it’s so strong;
Oh this love is not for us;
That’s why saying goodbye just feels so wrong.

SCENARIO 3
We live our lives in very different worlds;
Smoke and sweat, passion and vice;
We live our lives in very different worlds;
You can’t enter mine, you must not pay the price.
(…you must not pay the price…)

CHORUS 3
Oh this love is not for us;
It’s so real and it’s so strong;
Oh this love is not for us;
That’s why saying goodbye just feels so wrong.

BRIDGE
Across this fading city;
Across this crowded room;
Across the fetid back street, with the opium perfume;
Lives are intertwined;
In ways they can’t explain;
They imagine a shared future; but it’s not something they can attain
(…not something they can attain…)

OUTRO
Oh this love is not for us;
It’s so real and it’s so strong;
Oh this love is not for us;
That’s why saying goodbye just feels so wrong.
……just feels so wrong….

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released October 8, 2022
Featured Vocalist - London (aka London Lawhon)

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Collo Melbourne, Australia

Collo has been playing and writing music since the 1970's; but it has taken him until 2019 to have sufficient belief to put it out there.His music has strong rock origins, but draws on elements extending across the decades from the 1980's until today; with a broader brush of styles including Indie and Alternative rock.His new EP "The Bluff" provides a snapshot of where he is now with his music. ... more

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