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Love Leaves A Witness featuring Nicole Atkins

from Taking Back Tomorrow by Chuckie Campbell

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about

Love Leaves a Witness is about guilt, mourning, loss, and ultimately, the transference of pain, reminding us of the strength it takes, not only to hold on, but to let go.

Love Leaves a Witness is accompanied by a cinematic and eyecatching music video, some of it filmed underwater. The video is part of a three-part music video series. To place it in context, please watch this selection as one part of a Triptych with Smoke and Pretty Girls featuring FEEK.

Music Video Credits:
Video Produced and Directed by Denny Kremblas
Video Treatment by Chuckie Campbell & Denny Kremblas
Production Assistant: Chantal Michaux
Lighting - Electronic Field Productions
Key Grip - Brian Gallagher
Key Grip - Eugene Kennedy
Casting - Chantal Michaux

Starring
Chuckie Campbell
Jasmine Collins
Naheem Shabazz
John Hunter
Emilio Virella

Special Thanks/Filming Locations
-Buffalo RiverWorks for access to their grain silos.

-The Henry Hotel Urban Resort in Buffalo, NY for access to the historic staircase, dining room, and luxury suites.

-The Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo for access to their heated aquatics pool.

-DIPNDIVE Dive Shop in Buffalo, NY for equipment rental .

-John Nicholas Morgan for diving instruction.

-Phil Kossakowski for access to his in-ground pool.

lyrics

Verse 1, Chuckie Campbell

I remember the feelings
and patterns repeating
the shadows resembling God
a cycling ribbon of images
flickering on
my mind as I’m singing this song
every man has a moment
to live in his judgment
confessing the sins of his heart
and sometimes in the process
of hurting another
improperly measures his loss
I think back to the violent open nights
broken glass and strobing lights
summer surrounding the government housing
enclosed and compounding
some hopeless fight, hopeless life
enough of whatever
you want to stay needing
enough of whatever
you need to stay breathing
enough of whatever
to keep you from feeling enough

and within the interpreted urban decay,
the trauma diverted our personal space
Introverted, determined to push you away
and ask you to prove who you are --

A king or peasant, a saint or a sinner
a sheep or shepherd, survivor or victim,
you’re both and you’re neither
Within every villain's the heart of a hero
and every day is a test

Chorus 1, Nicole Atkins

Wherever I go, that’s where you are
Love leaves a witness
All my walls come down
I never left you
This is acceptance
Acceptance

Collision 1, Chuckie Campbell:

Shadows of memories suddenly large
discovering that I was never really lost

Listening close to the beat of my heart
broken approaching your outstretched arms

Verse 2, Chuckie Campbell:

I’m finally putting together the pieces
drunk off the liquor and staring at pictures
wondering why the people I needed
were always the people I kept at a distance
always the people I kept at a distance
over the years, I constructed a prison
built from the issues I chose not to deal with

the lying, the cheating,
the alcoholism
the violent, volatile,
shaking and dreaming
the tossing and turning
and sweating through pillows
emerging as patterns
of something much deeper
through moments of loss
and the process of hurting
I hurt other people
so nothing is harder
than truly forgiving myself

For a person who never determines the cause
there’s only the feelings that damage their heart
avoiding admitting whatever was wrong
can put us right back at the start

A king or a peasant, a saint or a sinner
a sheep or shepherd, survivor or victim,
you’re both and you’re neither
Within every hero's the heart of a villian
and every day is a test

Chorus 2, Nicole Atkins

Wherever I go, that’s where you are
Love leaves a witness
All my walls come down
I never left you
This is acceptance
Acceptance

Collision 2, Chuckie Campbell

Shadows of memories suddenly large
discovering that I was never really lost

Listening close to the beat of my heart
broken approaching your outstretched arms

Bridge 1, Chuckie Campbell

Shock
Pain
Descent
Blame
Denial
Depression

Broken, approaching your outstretched
Broken, approaching your outstretched arms

Chorus 3, Nicole Atkins

Wherever I go, that’s where you are
Love leaves a witness
All my walls come down
I never left you
This is acceptance
Acceptance

Collision 3a, Chuckie Campbell

Shadows of memories suddenly large
discovering that I was never really lost

Listening close to the beat of my heart
broken approaching your outstretched arms

Collision 3b, Chuckie Campbell

Shock
Pain
Descent
Blame
Denial
Depression
Hope
Acceptance

Chorus 4, Nicole Atkins

Wherever I go, that’s where you are
Love leaves a witness
All my walls come down
I never left you
This is acceptance
Acceptance

Collision 4a, Chuckie Campbell

Shadows of memories suddenly large
discovering that I was never really lost

Listening close to the beat of my heart
broken approaching your outstretched arms

Collision 4b, Chuckie Campbell

Shock
Pain
Descent
Blame
Denial
Depression
Hope
Acceptance

credits

from Taking Back Tomorrow, track released March 14, 2018
Written by Chuckie Campbell for Sunsets and Silencers Music in Buffalo, NY, except for the chorus, which was written by Willie Breeding and Nicole Atkins for True Blue Recording in Nashville, TN

Additional vocal performance by Nicole Atkins

Recorded at California Road Studios in Orchard Park, NY

Produced and mixed at True Blue Recording by Willie Breeding in Nashville, TN

Mastered by Kevin Peterson at The Mastering Palace in New York, NY

Additional engineering by Chuckie Campbell at Sunsets and Silencers Music, Buffalo, NY

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Chuckie Campbell Buffalo, New York

Chuckie Campbell is an American hip hop artist who lives in Buffalo, NY. Campbell commonly performs with a live band (drums, keys, and a full horn section), to make for a dynamic, powerful, and eclectic approach to hip hop, filled with fluid instrumentation, lush musical arrangements, and heartfelt poetic nuance. ... more

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