"Peace and Rumours of Peace" by No Commercial Potential. All rights reserved (C) NCP Music 2016.

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• published: 20 Jul 2016
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"Peace and Rumours of Peace" from the album "Who Cares" released July 12, 2016. ​I had wanted to write a song that was all affirmation, all encouragement for many years but, for one reason or 100 others, was unable to do it until recently. Either I wasn't in the 'right place' to write that kind of song emotionally or other projects and responsibilities intervened or I just didn't feel like I could write that kind of piece with any sincerity, it just didn't happen until, ironically, I made a stupid mistake in the studio at about 3 a.m. I was actually working on some base tracks for the second half of "This War is Over" but realized I had recorded at too fast a tempo for the lyrics I'd originally penned for that song (yes, there are lyrics ... you'll have to wait for the next album ... ;p). Anyway, spent hours laying down these tracks that I had just figured out were totally unusable. A lot of people would have been righteously p***ed at themselves for having done that but I wasn't. I felt like I'd recorded something proud, inspiring and affirmative. When it comes to music, I'm a believer in two things: First, there are no "mistakes", just "happy accidents" leading to more creativity and, if nothing else, inspiration. Second, the price of sounding incredible some of the time is, often, sounding horrible most of the time. But there was nothing horrible about what I had recorded here, I was just hoping to use it in a different way. Then, it came to me: all of it. The words for my "all-affirmation-all-the-time" song. It was there. The words and music started flowing as if someone else was writing them for me and I could feel the whole song in its entirety (NB - That's what song-writing/composition is like on a really, REALLY good day ... This was a really, REALLY good day ...). Every kind, encouraging, empowering, affirmative image and metaphor I ever wanted to remind myself of in harder times just poured out of me into this song and I fell in love with it, even when it wasn't 1/8 finished and no-one else could hear in it what I could hear. It's obviously a turn-about on the biblical prophecy about the "end times" being marked by "wars and rumours of wars". In keeping with the album's theme of time, its passage and spending it wisely while we have it, I re-cast this warning as a timeless anthem to "peace and rumours of peace". We've grown too comfortable in the early 21st century thinking of these as the "end times" (Hence the lyrics in 'Who Cares?', "Sometimes it's hard ... to believe this is not the end of the world" and the whole motif of "The Trouble Is ..."). I wanted to break that thinking with a song that presumed 'timelessness', opportunities for heroism every moment of everyday, renewed hope with each breath and the capacity of every person to be the hero they were born to be. - Matt Entwistle I gave Matt permission (albeit only after the fact) to have written such inspired and inspirational lyrics for this song ... ;} - Mel Sovak She is kind enough to permit me the illusion of self-determination in our work together. - Matt Entwistle So long as you realize it's only an illusion. - Mel Sovak MATT ENTWISTLE: music and lyrics, lead vocals, vocal harmonies, rhythm guitars MEL SOVAK: permission for MATT to have written such awesome lyrics, drums, percussion, vocal harmonies LEE BANNERMAN, bass guitar, cello ALLY McCOY: keyboards, angelic vocal counterpoint from "a salaam alaikum" forward IAN ANDRADE, lead guitars