This week’s Friday song, the first in the series, is a song we penned three or four days ago straight after receiving a private email from a Twitter follower of The Portraits on https://twitter.com/the_portraits

Normally, we will be tagging the people who’ve inspired the songs, but in this first instance the person who emailed us told us they’d rather remain unidentified as the subject matter refers to a difficult period in their recent life. “Final Act” is about a difficult breakup of a relationship in which past events, “ghosts” as described in the email we received, overshadow the present, and in which inhibition prevents the repair of the situation. Strength doesn’t always been being able to deal with everything by oneself – sometimes it is the strongest people that know they must ask for support from others.