Nightshift

Mastered by Dean McCarthy (Mechanica Mastering)

Rather Be In Berlin

A different sound from d'Orkest. This track was recorded during a trip to French Guyana.

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[EDIT: Slightly updated mix based on Spintunes judges' feedback.]

This is my entry for Round 3 of the "Spintunes" contest! The prompt/challenge was to "write and record a song that makes prominent and creative use of motivic development - a technique for creating extended melodies through repetition and variation of a short, memorable melodic fragment called a motive".

LYRICS

Waking up in purgatory
Isn’t where I thought I’d be
Aftertaste of argument
No that isn’t what I meant

And you do this every time
Just for a reaction
Yeah, you do this every time
Is it part of the attraction

Maybe you’ll go to prove that I need you
Maybe you’ll stay when I don’t believe you
Maybe you’re sweet, maybe you’re scary
Push me away only to tell me
Oh, don’t you want me anymore

What’s my motivation here
On a scale of one to fear
Weighing up the evidence
Isn’t making any sense

And it kills me every time
My heart on the pavement
Yeah it kills me every time
How you claim it’s an accident

Maybe you’ll go to prove that I need you
Maybe you’ll stay when I don’t believe you
Maybe you’re sweet, maybe you’re scary
Push me away only to tell me
Oh, don’t you want me anymore
Oh, don’t you want me anymore

I love it when you change
I love it when you change your
I love it when you change
I love it when you change your mind

Another day in purgatory
I guess that’s how it’s going to be
Our record’s playing on repeat
It’s never sounded so sweet

Maybe you’ll go to prove that I need you
Maybe you’ll stay when I don’t believe you
Maybe you’re sweet, maybe you’re scary
Push me away only to tell me
Oh, don’t you want me anymore
Oh, don’t you want me anymore

Don't You Want Me Anymore

[Verse1]
Did I push myself into a contract
I can’t slither out of
Did I manifest this concoction? 
That keeps my malady everlasting 
And lingering 

Oh no, I throw myself a pity party 
Just a party for one
I could not send out no invites
They reside in my drafts
Can’t master up the will
To respond or put on a show

If I’m being real oh oh

[PRE CHORUS]
I don’t know how much
 time I have left 
I predicted I would be 
at death’s HQ
By the time 
I reached this age
A few years back  
Was I on to something?
Was I ?
Because 

[CHORUS]
I can shake the feeling
It might be the final show
I can’t find the reason 
It feels like I’m getting close 

To the grand finale 
The climax
With no epilogue 
Just closed and shut 

[POST CHORUS]
With no hope  for a sequel 
Oh oh
Will I be damned
To my own devices 
Oh oh
I knew the end 
Beforehand 
Before this saga began 
Oh oh 

[VERSE 2]
It could happen anytime now 
I give up on all thrill
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Sometimes I think I’m already dead 
And this is Purgatory 
How would I know for sure? 

Maybe in this place 
I can’t escape 
I’ll certainly try 
It will come as
A surprise to 
myself one day 
Maybe I’ll do  it
Or it will come to me
In the form of a grim reaper’s horseman
I would just close my eyes andI leap


[PRE CHORUS]
I don’t know how much
 time I have left 
I predicted I would be 
at death hq 
By the time 
I reached this age
A few years back  
Was I on to something?
Was I ?
Because 

[CHORUS]
I can shake the feeling
It might be the final show
I can’t find the reason 
It feels like I’m getting close 
To the grand finale 
The climax
With no epilogue 
Just closed and shut 

[POST CHORUS]
With no hope  for a sequel 
Oh oh
Will I be damned
To my own devices 
Oh oh
I knew the end 
Beforehand 
Before this saga began 
Oh oh 

[OUTRO]
Did I push myself into a contract
I can’t slither out of
Did I manifest this concoction? 
That keeps my malady everlasting


#emo-ambient, #digital shoegaze, #art-trap.

Final Show (Death’s HQ)

chilly intimate sound

Three Of Three

Ever Since You’ve Been Gone

where the song started

#ballad #sad #emotional #folk #folkpop 
I wrote this thinking of the creative minds that want to be heard. And to anyone who wants to be remembered after they are gone. But also a warning to all about those with their hands out hoping to ‘Help’ you only to discover they want your money, not your talent…
I hope you like it. 

Lyrics:
Write your heart to me
In a song
In a poem 
before it stops beating
And you fade away
Speak your peace 
Out loud to the world
In the wind
In the rain

leave your precious mark, 
Your scent, your footprint, 
Before you fade away
Away away (away)

before 
you fade…
Away. away. away.


Carve your mighty name (before you fade away…)
On a tree
On a rock
before 
you fade…
Away. away. away.
Speak your inner peace
Out loud (to the world)
In the wind
In the rain
To those who can care to hear
Before you (you) disappear 
before our time
Whenever that is to be
leave your magic mark, 
Your unique scent, your heavy footprint, 
Before you fade away
Away away (away)

Ignore those who claim they know
What you should say
Try to have you sign your essence away
before 
you fade…
Away. away. away.

Indelible ink
Contract Written in blood
Sell your soul (bleed out) 
Bleed out (sell your soul)
For pennies from heaven 
A positive review (they’re gonna love you)
From one who doesn’t even know you
But says they do (Kiss them firmly)
Praise you up and down with their chubby hand out (Take a little nip)
then tries to sell you (Giggle in delight)
a keg of expensive lies (Send them on their way)
They’ve devised to (Without a reply)
Turn you into a sad broke joke (Bye bye bye)

Write your heart 
In a song
In a poem 
before it stops beating
And you fade away
Say your peace
Out loud
In the wind
In the rain
To those who can hear
Before you (we all) disappear 
before our time
Whenever that is to be
leave your mark, 
Your scent, your footprint, 
Before you fade away
Away away (away)

write your heart

Bet it takes me all my life

Half-British, half-Japanese, South London-based singer-songwriter and producer. Indie pop, rock and blues. Thank you for listening!

Don't You Want Me Anymore

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