SINGLE REVIEW: - GREY DE LISLE & LES GREENE - THE PIECES

Arriving in the #TEAMW21 Inbox with relatively little information other than she is recently toured the UK is the new single from Grey De Lisle - The Pieces. On looking up Grey, our interest was only piqued further by the news that she is a prolific voice actress known for roles such as Daphne Blake in Scooby-Doo  since 2000. All of which is a fabulous back story but it doesn't really explain how she has made this quite wonderful single. 

It's a pretty traditional classic country lead in of percussion and prominent guitars, it feel like a live take in the studio, with a certain vibrancy about it and a distinct lack of overdubs and electronica. This would have sounded the same had it been released 60 years ago where it would have easily nestled in against the prevailing tunes of the day.

As Grey joins, there is a certain melancholy to her voice. It's a tale of boy meets girl, boy loses girl and then they are seemingly separated by circumstances where getting back together seems to be the both the best and worst options that could happen.

"I looked up and saw the whole world in your eyes

When you're down, there's part of me dies

Where you are, with a lot we can't do

Just love me, a little more than I love you"

The chorus raise the stakes a little further, supplemented with an organ that gives the overall sound additional depth. It paints a roller coaster of a relationship in the opening few lines yet such is the infatuation driven by separation, that by the end things have turned 180 degrees.

"It'll probably kill me

To try with you again

But you're everywhere I want to go

And you're everywhere I've been

Pick up all the pieces

Just like we done before

They'll say we're crazy

We won't listen anymore."

A perfectly weighted guitar solo beautifully separates things out without being so flashy that it overwhelms the tune. The second verse accepts that they may never get back together in this life but looks forward to eternity.

"It's a long road to hell, but I'll meet you at the end

When there's no-one to be with you

I'll be your friend"

The third verse is effectively the first verse repeated with the only difference being Grey repeating the final line.

The strength of the song is that it never seeks to explain the reasons of why they are separated or quite why getting back together would be so bad - it is just accepted and left to the listener to make up their own back story.

This single comes from a forthcoming album of duets by the pair  Grey & Greene, released 5th June 2026.