The second degree of a diatonic scale!
Works well as a substitute for the Subdominant and Subtonic Triads. Obvs

Supertonic

“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. 

A Helicopter song from the 2003 Boz Boorer Pop Session.  It only seems like yesterday or maybe the day before.... you get the idea.

Rumble Strips

The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

A song from the Helicopter live acoustic session on MK Radio, y'know; back in the day.... 
We were all searching for something then but... well be careful what you wish for, as they say.

Searching For The Whole

Nox est perpetua una dormienda

A song from a session recorded in Corby about a hundred years ago,  You can almost hear the rocks banging together.

Everything (Da mi bassia mille)

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.  

Even older than 'Everything', which was pretty damn old, so ancient! Right!
Recorded at Andy Glass studios
The first real Helicopter recording.
We were between drummers at the time.

Opinionated

"Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requiris, nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior."

A long time ago in a cellar far, far away....  A survivor from the aborted Madcap recordings.

All Down To Me

“... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. 

Another song from the Boz Boorer session.  An old song even then and that was ten years ago.  Tempus fugit....

Everything Is Beautiful

Ah my beloved, fill the cup that clears
Today of past regrets and future fears.

Another old, old song re-imagined for the Boz Sessions.

Sympathetic Ear

The arms are fair,
When the intent of bearing them is just

Live at The Mean Fiddler, a peak of sorts.  One of many, oh yes.

Outside

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.” 

The first, and best, Mean Fiddler gig.  

Grrr

“I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires 
shall duly flame again.” 

An Eight Track recording from July 1992.  It was all just levers, knobs and wires.  What is EQ anyway?

Off By Heart (Idle Tears)

“Personally of course I regret everything.
Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,
not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy,
not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust,
not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear,
not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly.
An ordure, from beginning to end.” 

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.” 

The final upload from the Corby sessions. It's all there now for better or slightly less better.

Cold Shoulder (Non, je ne regrette rien)

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”

MK Radio.  

Preachers Prey (...a simple thing)

“I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”

Pine

Love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an end.

Recorded 16th April 1994.  

Love Doesn't End

The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next.

Taxi Taxi

Rehearsal tape, remember tape? From the other other classic line-up!

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it

Reload

Double throwback.

No brain at all, some of them, only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.

I Can't Concentrate

We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.

She had to kill the thing her husband had become.

Magnetic Bugs

A true story!

I swear, if you existed, I'd divorce you.

Eyeliner

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Sweet Contradiction

It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading."

Plutonium Version

The road less traveled;
Ancient history, buried treasure.

Helicopter MK

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