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Brave
(Bensi, Byrne, Hampshire, Kent)
What are friends for? To be there when you really need someone to be with and help.... that's what! So be that friend
I'm too Brave
There's nothing that I can't face
Whatever may come your way I'll take head on
Lost in disarray
They can't take your words away
I'm here now lift your head out from your hands
I will stay till the end
Believing you'd do the same again
I'll take hold
When you think you've lost control
We're on a rollercoaster so make the most of it
And I will be with you till the end
Believing you'd put me through it again
Tell me something, is this the place you're meant to be?
An unwanted complication, resist the pull of gravity
I'm too brave.
Brave is a positive song about having a friend who you care for and always being there for them no matter what they've done. You will put up with all the shit that comes with being this person's friend and 'be there till the end'.
Brave is a rocker. Mortimer was lacking some rockers so Rich started out writing something simple using some words that Sarah had for another song which had the lyrics 'I'm too Brave' in. He was round Sarah's when he came up with the first chords, D Em, A.
However as is the Mortimer way it didn't end up simple!
Rich showed the verse and bridge to Ben with just that many words written and Ben went away to write a chorus. Together they moulded this chorus into its current state over many weeks, in fact this song had many rewrites and melody changes for the chorus... probably more than any other song!
The middle 8 was another Ben & Rich invention and came later. The final version of the words to the chorus and also the 2nd & 3rd verse lyrics were written by Ben & Rich in a hurry (they wanted to play the song live the following week!) one evening in a London bar. The "put me through it again" bridge lyric came later courtesy of Marco.
Performed for the first time at the Hope & Anchor, Islington this is now a firm Mortimer favourite rocker.
