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There's A Difference

[Cover image by Ben Weber, from Unsplash]

2023-04-03 That's What Makes It Good

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Lyrics:

This is it
You’ve got the answer
Convinced yourself the problem was
That no-one’s tried to solve it
So you sit
Drawing plans for
A great, fluorescent future
Born of incremental tweaks to what we have

Same injustice baked in
But a little less overt piss taking

It’s a failure of
Imagination
Some old bastards made this world
We can just unmake it
It’s a failure of
Imagination
We can dream of longer chains
Or we can try to break them

You wear a veil
But it’s the wrong one
Ignorant of systems but
Not of your place within them
Privilege
Runs in the family
Can’t see past the edges of your lifestyle
So this must be natural

Same injustice baked in
But a little less overt piss taking

It’s a failure of
Imagination
Some old bastards made this world
We can just unmake it
It’s a failure of
Imagination
We can dream of longer chains
Or we can try to break them

Same injustice baked in
But a little less overt piss taking

It’s a failure of
Imagination
Some old bastards made this world
We can just unmake it
It’s a failure of
Imagination
We can dream of longer chains
Or we can try to break them

Realism

Lyrics:

I find the simple things the hardest to keep
In front of mind
In front of me
There’s all this opportunity
A million opportunities
Asleep at the wheel
It would take a crash to shake me

Lost in thought
Are you still there?
A million miles away somewhere
Drifted off
Forget quite where
A million miles away (away away away)

I’m not an idiot
It’s not up to me
They say I’m good, I’d be so good
If I could just apply myself
But now my mind is somewhere else
Asleep at the wheel
And this alarm won’t wake me

Lost in thought
Are you still there?
A million miles away somewhere
Drifted off
Forget quite where
A million miles away (away away away)

I don’t remember when I left the road
Was it a minute or an hour
Or a week ago?
But it’s driving me
To distraction

I didn’t see all of the signs before
Has it only been a couple years
Or more like 34
And it’s driving me
To distraction

Lost in thought
Are you still there?
A million miles away somewhere
Drifted off
Forget quite where
A million miles away (away away away)

I don’t remember when I left the road
Was it a minute or an hour
Or a week ago?
But it’s driving me
To distraction

I didn’t see all of the signs before
Has it only been a couple years
Or more like 34
And it’s driving me
To distraction


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Cover photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash

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Cover photo by Tadeusz Lakota on Unsplash

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01 Space Between Us

02 End Game

03 Final Stage

04 Almost Home

05 Night Driving

06 Fast Lane

08 Dark Day

07 Caution To The Wind

Irishman in Edinburgh, Scotland. He/Him

This page is a showcase for some of the better (but still rough) demos I've recorded at home. I've been trying to record at least one track (or rough idea) every week since November 2020, though not everything gets posted here.

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