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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

Crumbling mountain on high
Green, green grass and yellow sky
You’ve spread out all of paradise
Right in front of my eyes

I will climb to the top
See what I can find
Untie all of my knots
We’re all knotted up
But no light can make you blind

When you see the river
In the sunshine of its days
When you see the river
You’ll be on your way

Come with me and see
The beginning and the end
We’re up so high that I can feel 
The birds fly over my head

Oh and when you see the river
Running away
When you get nearer
You’ll scream out for the holy man to be saved

I can see the river
It wanders where it may
I am the river
I live out my days
I live out my days
As I may
I live out my days
Just like a river
Running my way
Be like a river
Run where you may
Run where you may


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New song, recorded on my phone's voice recorder, please try to ignore the cars and the bikes and the birds in the background

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3 What Am I Doing

Here be Dragons

Here Be Dragons

Week 5 #songaweek2020. Photo by Micah Bloom.

Speak without a word
Make yourself heard
Little bird
You are only everything
Joy of the spring
Music on wings
Oh sing little bird

Laugh at this cold world
bury your pearls
Little squirrel
You are part of it all
Winter through fall
sunshine and squall
So small little squirrel
	
Ease your mind in moonlit dreams
Till the morning sunlight streams 

Dance, rooted and free
reach out and breathe
lovely tree
You are happy right here
Year after year
Wind in your hair
So fair lovely tree

Feel, listen and be
Walk out and see
You with me
We are home in this place
Day after day
Finding our way
oh stay you with me

Somewhere there’s a star tonight
Pulsing out its final light

At Least For Now

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

Words She Heard

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."

My Mind's Eye

Darren Baxter

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