Name: Call On Me by bravo charlio in Entire Inbox: Batch 539
Duration: 3 min 59 s
Description: Influenced by British 80s post-punk New Wave, this is a cautionary tale of love, loss and isolation

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Influenced by British 80s post-punk New Wave, this is a cautionary tale of love, loss and isolation

Call On Me

A slightly melancholic, lighters-in-the-air meditation on friendship and loss.

Waxwings

slow down

Preternature

Awakening

Don't worry, now, really don't
But I think that the Sun might be dying
The day was always coming, but 
I thought we had a bit more time
Do you see what I'm seeing? 
There's just not enough coming through
Not enough of those sweet Tau Neutrinos
The question right now is really "what do we do"?

Oh those Solar Neutrinos
They just go right through you
Those pesky little critters
Are giving us the jitters

Yeah, OK I see it, but let's not freak out just yet
Not until we're certain, not until we've double checked
Let's keep this under our hats
We don't want all the fighting and fussing
What if we've got it all wrong?
I don't want to cause panic for nothing

They're in a flap at Fermilab
There's concern at CERN
I knew a girl at the Hadron Collider
They wriggled and jiggled and shivered inside her

Mate...mate, look here, look at this, look
What if we've missed a trick?
What if there are different flavours, like crisps
Our basic palate just can't detect
I think we've gone off half-cocked, jumped the gun
I think we've got all excited for nowt
It's understandable, easily explained, but we've gone and freaked everyone out

People, as you were!
The neutrinos are all flowing fine
And the Sun isn't dying
Not now, not yet, not this time
You know the Sun isn't hot enough
To do what it does?
Quantum Tunnelling? Cosmic Cunning?
One day we'll run out of luck

Stick 'em in the Tokamak
Stick 'em in the Tokamak
Stick 'em in the Tokamak and make it so

Stick 'em in the Tokamak
Stick 'em in the Tokamak
Stick 'em in the Tokamak and watch 'em go!

Oh those Solar Neutrinos, they just go right through you
Hanging out at DUNE trying to fathom why
They're only ever passing by

Well back there it seemed like the end of the world
But I have to admit for a moment, in spite of
The obvious problems it presents for us all
I couldn't help feeling
Excited

Solar Neutrino Problem

waving a broken radio round in circles at half 4 in the morning

149042539

My Turtle And Me

Lyrics,Produced, Music, All instruments by Nakita Demir.Vocal Arrangements,Vocals,
Mixing,Mastering,Engineering,Recorded, etc 
Powered By Nb Nakita for Nb Nakita Productions


NB NAKITA  "BRIGHT  GIRLS"

I Don't Care Now by George.
From Volume II Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 21st January 1983, 9:15 to 10:30.

Recorded June 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
As this song was being recorded it seemed to grow in stature from something that was pretty ordinary to something that was actually pretty good.
It is a song of healing, fortitude and moving on.
The key is E major.
This was the very first time that George had recorded two-handed tapping.
Several months previously a girl who George was deeply fond of had been forced to move hundreds of miles away due to a new parental job.
When the advent of social media many years later allowed them to get in touch again, it turned out the young lady in question was also devastated by the sudden move.
I Don't Care Now was never added to the repertoire of any band and remained a piece of personal therapy.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume II Side B

I Don't Care Now

Downloads

Band of Georges: I Don't Care Now

NB NAKITA APPEARS IN HER FORMAL BAND  "MCCLAIN" WITH THEIR VERY FIRST SONG  " UMI NO KOI"

Nb Nakita  Mcclain    "Umi No Koi"

[Verse 1]
Can you hear the sirens hum?
Under towers made of steel and drum
Missiles sleeping in their case
While children trace the war god’s face
Neon lights disguise the threat
In quiet rooms, the deals are set

[Pre-Chorus]
Do we dare to cross that line?
Trade the fire for something kind?
Where silence speaks in loaded terms
And kindness is the first to burn

[Chorus]
Drones above, hearts below
Futures sold in afterglow
The world rewinds with fatal grace
We slow-dance in a warlord's place
Do we dare to cross that line?
Or let the trigger write the rhyme?

[Verse 2]
Rhythms mimic marching feet
Newsfeeds loop what none repeat
They raise the flag, we dim the light
And dream in shadows, out of sight
Sparks of peace beneath the dust
Left to rust, or left to trust?

[Chorus]
Drones above, hearts below
Futures sold in afterglow
The world rewinds with fatal grace
We slow-dance in a warlord's place
Do we dare to cross that line?
Or let the trigger write the rhyme?

[Verse 3]
What if the line was never real –
just shadows cast by power's wheel?
What if the noise, the flags, the flame,
were all just masks to dodge the blame?
We bury hope beneath the tech,
trade soft hands for coded wrecks.

[Verse 4/Outro]
Still, in the quiet, there's a glow,
a thread of peace we used to know.
No anthem loud, no marching pride –
just one more chance we brushed aside.
Do we dare to cross that line?
Or watch the end in perfect time?

Do We Dare To Cross That Line [Eli]

You know you′re right
Its black and white
Cant explain what the pain is like

Did you prefer
The way you were
When you turn the bridge has burned down

You've every reason to be wrong
You never believed it but she′s long gone

And you're faking it
You're faking it
Hoping tomorrow maybe tomorrows gonna shine

You′ve got your plan
Your gun in hand
Here I come everyone run

Its no surprise
That compromise
Is not a word you have heard before

You can turn it around still see the light
But something inside you just aint quite right

And you′re faking it
You're faking it
Hoping tomorrow maybe tomorrows gonna shine

Faking It - 2025 Remaster

Side project of Brandon of TNMFL
written, recorded, produced & mastered by Brandon Petit

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A known unknown

Night Walk

Ad Infinitum


He kissed his kids in the parking lot light
Said, “Tell your mama I’ll be home tonight”
But the van pulled up, no name, no badge
Just a shadow swallowing up the past
Now the house is quiet, too quiet to breathe
Just echoes and questions, and government grief
He built the towers, cleaned the floors
Signed the lease but not the forms

She scrubbed the blood out of hospital sheets
Dreamed of green cards and Arizona heat
Then one wrong turn, one broken tail light
Now her name’s a whisper in the dead of night
And her daughter prays in perfect English
But mercy don’t speak any language
They're buried deep in files and codes
In desert camps no map has shown

He disappeared—like he was never here
Like a name erased from the face of the year
Vanished in daylight, behind barbed wire and fear
No charge, no trial, just gone
Disappeared

[Verse 3]
He worked the fields from dusk 'til sun
Picked your apples, picked your guns
But when the census man came down the road
His name was missing from every code
Now there's an empty bunk and folded clothes
And the wind still asks where the worker goes
Can you feel them in the static hum?
Do they haunt your streets when the day is done?

They disappeared—like they were never here
Like stories lost to a closing ear
Lined up in shadows, behind fences and fear
No rights, no name, just gone
Disappeared


Disappeared

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bravo charlio is a songwriter/musician based in Bristol, UK. Having started performing and writing as part of bands in the late 1990s and beyond, he took some time out to reflect and refocus and is back writing and producing as a solo artist with a renewed desire to share his perspective.

bravo charlio's musical style is a captivating blend of several genres, creating a unique and evocative sound.  Drawing inspiration from the Britpop era, his songs have a nostalgic feel. The new wave influence adds a layer of synth-driven sounds and upbeat rhythms and the jangly guitar riffs give his tracks a vibrant and dynamic quality, similar to the sounds of The Smiths and early U2. All built upon the foundations of the Stax & Atlantic soul records of the 1960s & 1970s

This combination of styles results in music that is both familiar and fresh, making bravo charlio a distinctive voice in the indie music scene.

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