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Lockdown Machine
04:18
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That beautiful house I created is crumbling to the floor in dust.
Thirteen calls in the space of five days and everything has been cancelled.
I’m back grappling the greasy pole of survival.
In Universal Credit gridlock and utter disbelief of what is happening around me.
And I struggle for breath
It’s so hot in here
Coronavirus lockdown
It’s as clear as Unclear
But still I struggle for breath
It’s so hot in here
Coronavirus lockdown
It’s as clear as unclear
My future that was unfolding
Has been kicked out and shut
My Daily movements
Chopped off at the foot
Mass paranoia on the streets and panic in my lungs
My reason to be has gone and left in this deadly mess to swim through
What’s More!
It could have all been prevented with better organisation in place
Instead I’m looking into the abyss of a joyless future
And Still I struggle for breath
It’s so hot in here
Coronavirus lockdown
Well nothing is clear
My future that was written
Has been kicked out and shut
My Daily movements
Chopped off at the foot.
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The Closed Down Bars
03:18
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The rolling seas
The closed down bars
I wait and wait
Nothing thus far
Mourning the loss
My head is axed
I just want to sleep
These days to pass
Rolled into one
And much the same
It’s such a long
Waiting game
Your return
Is a distant hill
I strive for repose
As my body gets ill
Such fine tuning
I struggle for air
There’s a lump in my legs
And rats in my hair
I see you in the distance
Too scared to come in
Big bags ‘neath your Eyes
And your weight getting thin
Walking in the distance
And standing in line
Oblivious to the other
And masked behind
Your body shaking
In the closed down bars
Waiting and waiting
And nothing thus far.
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For moments We played the marvellous world of the Fall and the pain stopped.
Transported back into our normal reality of music and gigs ,We forgot our current predicament in phenomena like this
That We’d sadly been deprived of.
Linking as We could via music and social media.
Dropping off books in brief mask-Clad exchange outside the block for safety.
For moments freed from the agony of isolated activity and hanging on.
Broken, .patchy sleep
Legs that probe and confront
Rooms that are absent of life.
64 % of musicians have felt their mental health suffer as a result of this pandemic
How many the true hidden numbers in the wider reaches of society?
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The Absence Of...
05:26
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There Is A Light
03:12
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Wrap me up
Safe and warm
From the cold outside and within.
Keep me clothed
Keep me fed
And forever locked in.
To your love
Your nourishing bonds
Your silence here on tap .
A beer to share
Across the divide
Let the music forever last.
Lying curled up
My heart a-Beats
In the darkness of your womb.
In the hypnotic sounds
of the burgeoning song
That flower from the room.
Freed from the snare
of empty times grasp
And the sirens’ permanent scream.
To the warm embrace
of a sleep come slow
Vivid colour of a dream.
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A Universal Prayer
02:32
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Give us the hope
And courage to get through
This long and dark Covid year
For We all must find
To each our own way
The scramble through the sewer to the outside light.
And emerge
Into the forest glade
With the brilliant trees that stand the test of time
And the rhythm of song
That We carry in our hearts
To surely
Help Us along
This foggy road
That might now forever Be.
And may I see
the friends I’ve gathered
When all is said and done.
Such joy to see
The beauty of your love
Amongst the grind of the everyday.
May We survive
The long dark nights
As the seasons loom and bound.
Us so tight
Towards each other
Which is surely Where We need to be.
Upon the very road home
Come tumbling in for tea.
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We Will Emerge
05:24
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8. |
Compensate
02:34
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You walk succinctly into the arms of my open mind
Such joy and wonder at this meet I did not expect to find
Oh!
To feel you close again
After all that angst and frictious chase.
Compensate me for the stripped away present
I see the departed and those absent now return in dreams
You reach out for me old friend
Complaining of noisy neighbours keeping you awake until 6.30 am.
I feel you standing there in the room Dad
Julie smiles with Afro coloured headband at the wonder of the music
Oh!
And those joyous schooldays
Swinging on beams outside the public toilets
Bright,Playful and rebellious.
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Reasons 2
03:40
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Lockdown drink.
Syncing music listening over ale and social media.
Previewing ideas.
Cat getting a £20 racer into a taxi so can travel over to see her in the early days.
Cycling 15 miles to Tottington
Water and bananas
The release of reach out to your far horizon and great link up with Joe Cook
German shepherd records
John Crosby at Weir FM
John Montague
Alice Peters-Burns
Bob Osborne radio shows
Brad Cain’s soundtrack to infinity
Dave hammond’s Smelly flowerpot
Laura Beth at Reclaimed radio.
Protocol by Night operations
2 lost souls
Gig economy
Un-Interrupted time for my own music
Longer periods at Cats
Guitar with Brian
Lockdown blues
Aldi shops and hobgoblin beer
Blackley music in the sun
Riyad over for birthdays
Meeting up with Paul Taylor
And the Cocteau twins Fontana years box set.
“What d’you think about that Bri?”
Matt Danny and Cat
The red string of fate
“it’s gems like this that make my job worthwhile”
The dance of the night
Featured 20 plus times on the radio
A real surge in streams and listeners
Talking with Inky joe black on the phone
Looking after Cat
My new ear pods
A proper music system for the flat
Sifting through all my music collection
Ian’s books
Sullingtons beer
Ray’s Generosity
An electronic drum kit
A Kalimba for Christmas
Lazy time with Cat
Sneaky visits to Keep in touch with Mum,Mark and Anita.
Stockdales’s music
All the seasons of homeland
Star Trek the next generation
The Bridge
Who killed Malcolm X?
The generosity of my family
Watching United games with Brian
“I’ll tell you what I think about that Dom”
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Squeezing through the tiniest of doorways
Hanging on to hang on
No grip nor grounding
And events I just can’t account for
I need to know
I need to find
Some sweet love
And a Piece of mind
The shepherd’s light
The dawning of day
The blossoming fields
And I’m on my way
Mind and body all skewered.
We pass a year now and still this uncertainty
I threaten to explode
Oh when is that next scheduled drink?
I need to know
I need to find
Some sweet love
And a peace of mind
The shepherd’s light
The dawning of day
The blossoming fields
And I’m on my way
My Way.
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Far Away
03:40
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Take me to the place where the unfaltering silence breaks through all of this and can simply be felt
Such breath taking peace which brings out in me cries of wonder, discovery and joy
Before floating away over the mountains
Rise today
It moves away
Pick up your dancing shoes
There’s music in the town
Rise today
It’s on its way
It won’t be long now
Before the curtain finally comes down.
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