About this track: I was deeply moved by Jeff Buckley’s music. Buckley’s voice has a special way of getting under your skin. 'Shiver' is a personal homage, my way of saying thanks for the inspiration. It's about the mark his music left on me.

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LYRICS

Longing, pain, love and hope
haunting voice that won't let go

sends shivers down my spine

Longing, pain, love and hope
haunting voice that won't let go

sends shivers down my spine
shiver down my spine
inner torture and joy
within a twist of a line

runaway father
followed you everywhere
get out some anger
a screaming soul laid bare

sends shivers down my spine
shiver down my spine
inner torture and joy
within a twist of a line

What matters is grace
you had an unending life-or-death urgency to speak your heart
you made me feel
feel the rhythm
you made me feel
real music 
you made me feel

Sing what you need to sing 
when the spirit fails you
Hallelujah

You disappeared into 
the Mississippi river  
it was a spontaneous swim,  
fully clothed, you jumped in 
You were found upstream 
a few days later
The moon looked down as you drowned 
The clouds flew you away

Longing, pain, love and hope
haunting voice that won't let go

sends shivers down my spine
shiver down my spine
river of last goodbye
shiver down my spine

I hear it
light and delicate
like a wish

I see it
dark as the night
tears in trembling light

Play the music. Play it loud.
I'll remember you, 
I'll  remember you 
oh
Play the music. Play it loud.
I'll remember you, 
I'll remember you 
oh
but can't forget your fate
oh
can't forget your fate

Sing what you need to sing 
when the spirit fails you
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Lyrics and Music (c) Darren Baxter

Shiver

Rebecca Robson stands on a crowded bus with a sense of dread and waits
Her rent is late
Wearing a cloth mask, closing her eyes and taking deep breaths to be calm
Told this is safe

Oh unprecedented, disorienting times
Oh better days will be back
It will be alright
It will be alright
Is this real? Locked in something so surreal?
Gotta just hold on
Oh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
Oh oh oh mmmm

Doctor McIntosh hears a cacophony of coughs as she enters the A & E
Cracks start to show
Gets home battered
No hug or welcome just runs to the shower and scrubs clean
Can't pass it on

Oh unprecedented, disorienting times
Oh better days will be back
It will be alright
It will be alright
Is this real? Locked in something so surreal?
Gotta just hold on
Oh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
Oh oh oh mmmm

Rebecca Robson sleeps with a breathing tube, in a critical care bed
Locked in a dream
Doctor McIntosh running her hands through her hair as she turns away
When will this end?

Oh unprecedented, disorienting times
Oh better days will be back
It will be alright
It will be alright
Is this real? Locked in something so surreal?

The world was gripped by a virus, we were gripped by numbness and fear
The world was gripped by a virus, we were gripped by numbness and fear

Gotta just hold on
Oh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
Oh oh oh mmmm
Gotta just hold on
Gotta just hold on
Oh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
Oh oh oh mmmm
Gotta just hold on
Gotta just hold on
Oh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
Oh oh oh oh oh

Lyrics and Music (c) Darren Baxter

Rebecca Robson

Algorithms manipulate you, 
Brainwash you and 
Predict what you do 
Don't challenge you 
Just echo you 
All for ad revenue 
Do they care for you? 
Do they care? 
Do they care for you?  
Do they care? 

All that you do is useless 
Unless someone envies you
All that you do is useless 
Unless someone angers you

The future 
Memories fire
The future echoes 

The future 
Memories fire
The future echoes 

The future 
Memories fire
The future echoes 

Put on your AR darkly-tinted glasses
Or put on your VR darkly-tinted goggles
hmmm, strap your arm and tap the vein
Reality dissolves 
Digital smack to escape 
But who controls what you see?
Virtual insanity
These worlds, you'll have everything
But nothing will have meaning

Fake news, they choose what you read
Fake truth they choose what you need
Fake news, will it get worse in the metaverse?
It's gonna get worse

It's already begun
Your data is a sawn-off shotgun
Used against you
Stare down the barrel of a gun

Fake news, they choose what you read
Fake truth, they choose to spread disease
Fake news, will it get worse in the metaverse?
it's gonna get worse

Brave new world
Brave new world
Brave new world
Brave new world
Brave new world

The future 
Memories fire
The future echoes 

The future 
Memories fire
The future echoes

Ooohoohoohoohoo
Ooohoohoohoohoohoo
Ooohoohoohoohoo
Ooohoohoohoohoohoo

Darren Baxter Brave New World

I saw an old friend who's not long for this world
They're just doing their thing
I thought, "Why aren't you out there living it up?"
That's backwards I know, the question is why am I not doing
something I would continue to do if I was diagnosed like you.

Everybody tries, Everybody tries, Everybody dies
But not everybody really lives 
really lives

I saw an old friend who's not long for this world
They're just doing their thing
I thought, "Why aren't you out there living it up?"
That's backwards I know, the question is why am I not doing
something I would continue to do if I was diagnosed like you.

Everybody tries, Everybody tries, Everybody dies
But not everybody really lives 
really lives, really lives

Life is about love, I'll give love if I can, I'll share love if I can
this beautiful day may be my last
I'm right here, right now. 
I will never be here in this moment again.

Life is about love, I'll give love if I can, I'll share love if I can
this beautiful day may be my last
I'm right here, right now. 
I will never be here in this moment again.

Life is to be lived, give love if you can, share love if you can 
this beautiful day may be your last
you are right here, right now. 
You will never be here in this moment again.

Life is to be lived, give love if you can, share love if you can 
this beautiful day may be your last
we are right here, right now. 
We will never be here in this moment again.

Lyrics and Music (c) Darren Baxter

Everybody Tries

Words & Music (c) Darren Baxter 2019

LYRICS

When I was young, my bedroom wall
Had a poster of a band
and I would listen on my
walkman lying on my bed
I related

In 84, he was a king
Flowers in the back of his jeans
Threw flowers into the
audience he writhed and twisted
Animated

I know, I know, I know it's over
Hero, hero, hero no longer

I won't forget the last big gig
hoped for poetic genius
But got bad Moz with his crazy rant
Bigging up Robinson
It’s all tainted

I know, I know, I know it's over
Hero, hero, hero no longer

Those were the days
with poetry and music
for the shy and lonely
when i was a teen
Those were the days
when politics used to bore me
And now i worry
about everything

It's gone too far right now
It's gone too far right now
It's gone too far right now
hmmm
It's gone too far-right now
It's gone too far-right now
It's gone too far-right now
hmmm

In a cafe, sip my coffee
when The Smiths play on the stereo
I've always loved The Smiths
But now I cannot listen
Without prejudice
Now that Morrissey has revealed his

I know, I know, I know it's over
Hero, hero, hero no longer

It's over It's over
It's over It's over
It's over it's over it's over it's over
It's over

I know, I know, I know it's over
Hero, hero, hero no longer

There was a light but it's gone out
There was a light but it's gone out
There was a light but it's gone out
There was a light but it's gone out
There was a light

Hero No Longer

as you make the effort to let go of your worries,
please smile
it's the fruit of your awareness that you're here,
alive
and at the same time it nurtures more peace and joy
within you.

don't feel alone
don't feel alone
don't feel alone
we are one

don't feel alone
don't feel alone
don't feel alone
we are one

as you make the effort to let go of your worries,
please smile
it's the fruit of your awareness that you're here,
alive
and at the same time it nurtures more peace and joy
within you.

don't feel alone
don't feel alone
don't feel alone
we are one

don't feel alone
don't feel alone
don't feel alone
we are one

why do we worry about anything?
it's only waves of our mind
let it come, let it go
why do we worry about anything?
why do we worry about anything?

don't feel alone
don't feel alone
don't feel alone
we are one

don't feel alone
don't feel alone
don't feel alone
we are one

Lyrics & Music (c) Darren Baxter

Don't Feel Alone

feel the rhythm of each breath
feel the rhythm of every single step
breathe in, breathe out
be here, be here and now

sorrows and worries drop away
only takes moments but every day
breathe in, breathe out
be here, be here and now

breathe in, breathe out
don't get caught up in your worries cos they only bring you down
breathe in, breathe out
don't get caught up in your troubles cos the only moments now

the only moments now

don't think of tomorrow or yesterday
Don't wait to meet death
for him to take your last breath
before you let go, before you let be
breathe in, breathe out
be here, be here and now

breathe in, breathe out
don't get caught up in your worries cos they only bring you down
breathe in, breathe out
don't get caught up in your troubles cos the only moments now

breathe in, breathe out
don't get caught up in your worries cos they only bring you down
breathe in, breathe out
don't get caught up in your troubles cos the only moments now

Lyrics and Music (c) Darren Baxter

Breathe

i walk by the beach by the ocean
the wind blows the stormy sea
let it come, let it go
why do i worry about anything?
it's only waves of my mind
let it come, let it go

i walk by the beach by the ocean
the wind blows the stormy sea
let it come, let it go
why do i worry about anything?
it's only waves of my mind
let it come, let it go

and i find i've been blind
to the waves of my mind
my minds eye focused on what it craves
here comes another wave
let it come, let it go
my minds eye focused on what it craves
here comes another wave
let it come, let it go

i walk by the beach by the ocean
the wind blows the stormy sea
let it come, let it go
why do i worry about anything?
it's only waves of my mind
let it come, let it go

i walk by the beach by the ocean
the wind blows the stormy sea
let it come, let it go
why do i worry about anything?
it's only waves of my mind
let it come, let it go

and i find i've been blind
to the waves of my mind
my minds eye focused on what it craves
here comes another wave
let it come, let it go
my minds eye focused on what it craves
here comes another wave
let it come, let it go

my minds eye
my minds eye
my minds eye

My Mind's Eye

Words & Music (c) Darren Baxter 2020/2021

The Moment Seizes Us

"Emotionally so intense... sucks you right in" - UK acoustic singer/songwriter Darren Baxter was influenced by Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke/Radiohead, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Eddie Vedder and Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes.

Unplugged, stripped-back, raw, authentic, vulnerable and evocative, Darren delves into themes of anxiety, sorrow and mortality with unnerving honesty. 

Darren embraces the philosophy of Jeff Buckley: "be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate."

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