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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

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

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

"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."