Again_raw version

Leonard Cohen cover. All copyrights are reserved by the original artist (Leonard Cohen).

Blake Day - Coming Back To You (Leonard Cohen cover)_raw version

Blake Day - It´s Time_raw version

My cover version of this traditional American lullaby.

Blake Day - All the Pretty Little Horses_raw version

Look in your eyes
by Blake Day

Sometimes there is sorrow. Sometimes there is woe.
Sometimes we’re standing out there naked feeling cold winds blow.
Sometimes it’s hard to get up, when grief is on the rise.
But in an instant it's all washed away by a look in your eyes.

Have you ever felt eviscerated by lurking doubt?
Oaring blindly in the sea of existential drought.
But I’ve found out that for all these hows and all these whys
there is a true answer and it dwells in the look in your eyes.

Many here are stumbling, many have to cry
and sooner or later we’re all gonna die.
But if I had to judge life, there would be no denial,
because in the end it’s all worth it thanks to the look in your eyes.

What I know now is that I loved you and you loved me.
This very moment was for eternity, no matter what will be.
When I die and have to leave here, I will come back in disguise,
follow you unseen and keep forever just looking in your eyes.

Blake Day - Look in your Eyes_raw version

In a better world
by Blake Day

I remember the day
they put put me into this cell
when I had to leave you behind
what for they did never say

They took all my things
but I snuck in a picture of you
I press it against my heart
whenever I dream of rescue

I have been waiting for the night
to make room for the day
I have been waiting for the sun
to light up these skies of grey

I have been waiting for the jailor
to take off this ball and chain
There's no more space on these walls to keep counting
to the day we meet again

I wanna lift you up high in a better world
I wanna look into your eyes in a better world
I wanna die and have a rebirth
for us to get what we deserve
I wanna be with you in a better world

I think I have forgotten
how it feels to walk free
Sometimes they mock at me
and say I was in it for eternity

But I know there is a way
to cheat the gallows
For together we have this power
that can break down any prison wall

I wanna kiss you goodnight in a better world
I wanna hold you real tight in a better world
I wanna whisper into your ear
what's only for you to hear
I wanna love you in a better world

Yes I want the wait to end
I wanna laugh with you again
I wanna find a new place for us in a better world


Blake Day - in a better world_raw version w/ percussion, piano and cello

Nick Cave cover recorded live during a recent rehearsal session. All copyrights are reserved by the original artist (Nick Cave).

Blake Day - Push The Sky Away (Nick Cave cover)_rehearsal session live recording

Stripped-down live cover of Tom Waits' "Dirt in the ground", presented by Blake Day and the Dead Seeds at Cosmic Kaspar Berlin on 8 Jan 2015.
All copyrights are reserved by the original artist (Tom Waits).

Blake Day and the Dead Seeds - Dirt in the ground (live Tom Waits Cover)

Lulladie
(written by Blake Day)

Her:
Hush now, baby, go to sleep
My love is there for you to keep.

Him:
Hush now, baby, go to sleep
Tomorrow's another day to weep.

Her:
Hush now, baby, close your eyes
The dawn will break the dark night skies

Him:
Hush now, baby, close your eyes
Noone will hear your pleading cries.

Her:
Hush now, baby, grab my hand tight
I know a place where there is still some light.

Him:
Hush now, baby, grab my hand tight
All roads will lead us back into the night.

Her:
Hush, my baby, don't you cry
Don't mind my heart-breaking sigh.

Him:
Hush, my baby, don't you cry
Everything that lives is bound to die.

Blake Day - Lulladie

Shade of Red - Credits:

Blake Day – Vocals, piano, organ, typewriter, electric baritone guitar
Leonard Kaage – Organ, drums
Fabien De Menou – Bass

Recorded and produced by Leonard Kaage at Werkstatt Audio, Berlin, in the winter of 2015/2016.
Lyrics by Blake Day.
Painting by Vicky de Bruyne.

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Shade of Red - lyrics:

Mesmerised and shaking, I can sense
all the secrets of life behind your eyes.
Part of the mystery revealed with every tear,
slowly melting the disguise.

So show me who you really are
so that I can steal the world for you.
Let me take a look inside your heart
that’s covered in a shade of blue.

In this life of missed chances
you give me a feeling that I thought I had lost.
In this darkness a light glances.
And spring will forever melt the frost.

With our teeth bared and eyes open wide,
we can steal the world right from the sky.
And hide in there from our last goodbye.
From you to eternity.

So come and take this walk with me,
down this winding and untrodden path.
At the end of it we will be free.
With a shade of red around our hearts.
With a shade of red around our hearts.
With a shade of red around our hearts.


Blake Day - Shade Of Red

A whole new kind

Give me a whole new kind of living,
I’m alive but never born.
Bought this life in new condition,
yet it feels so fucking worn.

A whole new kind of thinking,
my neurons won’t lead anywhere.
A sleeping wake, a waking sleep.
Kicking holes into the air.


Give me a whole new kind of look.
The mirrors don’t like what they see.
Change my face and change my brain.
Let me forget about you and me.

A whole new kind of breathing.
The smell just makes me sick.
Rotten flesh and wasted hearts.
Decaying souls with red lipstick.


Give me a whole new kind of song.
I’m bored beyond belief.
The sirens have stopped, sailors lost.
Singing in disbelief.

Give me a whole new kind of longing.
I’m tired of wanting you.
Cinderella may be gone,
I still got the other shoe.

This soul that you told me about - where can I get one?

Give me a whole new kind of love.
I’m disgusted by what I saw.
A sheep eating her little lamb.
Two babies at war.

A whole new kind of dying.
This doesn’t cut it for me.
Digging into the ground aimlessly.
Let me dig my own grave at least.

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A Whole New Kind - music credits:
Produced by Christian Richardson and Blake Day
Composed by Blake Day and Christian Richardson
Arrangements by Christian Richardson
Lyrics and vocals by Blake Day
Drums: Leonard Kaage and Emeritus Nirgendheim
Bass: Christian Richardson
Vibrator on baritone electric guitar: Blake Day
Percussion and other sounds: Blake Day, Christian Richardson and Emeritus Nirgendheim
Recorded in Berlin in the spring of 2016.

Blake Day - A Whole New Kind

"Flame Girl" is the first single off the upcoming Blake Day album "Axolotl". You can watch the accompanying stop-motion video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAQJeeIDxss

Lyrics:
Flame Girl

From the Gorgons, with their hissing snakes;
to the Naiades, in their rivers and lakes;
to the Graeae, sharing one eye and tooth;
to Thetis, denying Zeus.

From Pandora, to Rhea to Persephone;
to Daphne, transformed into a laurel tree;
to the Harpies, hungry like a storm;
to Ariadne, playing with her ball of yarn.

Flame Girl.
Flame Girl.
One moment here and the next gone.
Rising and hiding with the sun.

From Clytemnestra, with a murderous plan;
to Medusa and Scylla, half monster and half human;
to Penelope, Selene and Aphrodite;
to Danaë, thrown into the sea.

Flame Girl.
Flame Girl.
One moment here and the next gone.
Going steady only in this song.
One moment here and the next gone.
Trapped forever in this song.

Blake Day - Flame Girl

“We all experience within us what the Portuguese call 'Saudade', which translates as an inexplicable longing, an unnamed and enigmatic yearning of the soul, and it is this feeling that lives in the realms of imagination and inspiration and is the breeding ground for the love song. 'Saudade' is the desire to be transported from darkness into light, to be touched by the hand of that which is not of this world. (…) The love song is never simply happy. It must first embrace the potential for pain. Those songs that speak of love, without having within their lines an ache or a sigh, are not love songs at all, but rather hate songs disguised as love songs, and are not to be trusted. These songs deny us our humanness (…). The love song must resonate with the whispers of sorrow and the echoes of grief. The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love. For just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil (…) so within the fabric of the love song, within its melody, its lyric, one must sense an acknowledgement of its capacity for suffering. (…) I believe the love song to be a sad song. It is the noise of sorrow itself. (...) They [his love songs] are the companions of the soul that lead it into exile, that sate the overpowering yearning for that which is not of this world. The imagination demands an alternate world, and through the writing of the love song one sits and dines with loss and longing, madness and melancholy, ecstasy, magic and joy with equal measure of respect and gratitude.”

(Excerpts from Nick Cave, “The Secret Life of the Love Song”)

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