"You'll Go from Me"

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As part of my Collection Audit project, I'm listening to the Zombie Heaven discs again.  I just listened to the third disc, and I noticed the lines "I want to hold you tight / While the warmth of the night surrounds us" in "You'll Go from Me" (the demo of what became "Don't Go Away").  I'm not sure of those line breaks, though.

In any case, these lines are fairly similar to some in "Maybe after He’s Gone," which - like "You'll Go from Me" - was written by Chris White.  The last verse is:  "I feel so cold; I'm on my own / As the night folds in around me / Night surrounds me; I'm alone."

The situations are the same:  night is surrounding the speaker/singer, but there's a difference in temperature.  In "You'll Go from Me" and "Don't Go Away" (the lyrics are the same; I think it's only the structure that's different), it's "the warmth of the night" because the speaker/singer is with a girl who loves him, but the speaker/singer in "Maybe after He's Gone" is "so cold" because he's alone.

"Whenever You're Ready" / "You'll Go from Me"

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I listened to the demos of the songs that were recorded sometime this month fifty years ago, and I noticed something about "Whenever You're Ready" and "You'll Go from Me"/"Don't Go Away."

The second line of each verse in "Whenever You're Ready" ends with "like this before" or "like before" (often with a "yeah" capping the line):

First verse:

Well, I've been hurt, but I still love you
I've been hurt like this before, yeah

Second verse:

I know you laugh, but I still love you
And though I've cried like this before, yeah

Third verse:

And never hurt me 'cause I love you
Never hurt me like before

"You'll Go from Me"/"Don't Go Away" also exhibits this repeating sort of feature in that both verses start with "Through the night."  The first verse starts with "Through the night I can feel you love me," and the second with "Through the night you'll tempt my feelings."

I checked the demos against the final versions, and both versions exhibit these traits.

Recording Session

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Some of the recording dates listed in the Zombie Heaven liner notes are just the month and year, so sometime this month fifty years ago, it seems that the Zombies recorded demos for "Whenever You're Ready," "You'll Go from Me" (later released as "Don't Go Away"), "I Know She Will," and "I'll Keep Trying."

I'm fairly certain that this session was before the 24th because that's when they recorded the final versions of "Whenever You're Ready," "Don't Go Away," and "I'll Keep Trying."  (A final version of "I Know She Will" wasn't recorded until 8 July.)

In the track-by-track section, the Zombie Heaven liner notes list "April or June 1965" as the recording dates for the demos of "Whenever You're Ready" and "You'll Go from Me," but in the chronology section, it has all four demos listed under "?-6" (sometime in June).

The demos of "Whenever You're Ready" and "You'll Go from Me" are on the third disc of Zombie Heaven, but the demos of "I Know She Will" and "I'll Keep Trying" are bonus tracks on a re-issue of Begin Here.  It doesn't make sense to me that they're split up, but at least they were all released.

"You'll Go from Me" / "Don't Go Away" / "Brief Candles"

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I've been listening to the Zombies everyday since the start of June in an attempt to internalise their music, and - unsurprisingly - I've been learning how to play some parts.

I'm pretty sure I just figured out the chord progression for "You'll Go from Me," which was later reworked into "Don't Go Away."  At one point, there's F# G A D F# G A, which is really similar to a section of the bass part in "Brief Candles," which is F# G A D F# G A B.