Fish: Credo

Official music video. Credo was the second single, released in December 1991 from Internal Exile, my second solo album released a few months earlier. The lyrical idea was again a hangover from the Dalnaglar sessions with Marillion in 88 but didn t really come into shape until early 91 soon after the birth of my daughter Tara on January 1st who I can remember cradling in my arms while watching the shock and awe of the first Gulf War explode on my TV screen and wondering just what kind of world I had introduced her into. There was a lot of anger in me at that time after a debilitating and expensive legal battle with EMI records that wouldn t conclude until April of that year combined with an ongoing court case with my former band members in Marillion over various financial and other issues. It was a difficult time and I had perhaps foolishly decided to build my own recording studio amongst all this confrontation and the immense drain on my finances in order to gi