Name: Get Your Head Up (Demo) by Pocket Dial in Pocket Dial Demos
Duration: 3 min 2 s
Description: Wrote the lyrics for this a few years ago with the chords going back to when I had only been playing a few years and just learnt 7th chords. It's probably the original of mine that gets the most attention at open mics. I like it. So here is a simple acoustic demo version. One day i'll do the song properly, with a drum kit and a bass, and maybe finally figure out a nice harmony for the vocals.....

Pocket Dial Demos

After listening to this track from The Anthropophobia Project for months, I decide that I just had write something to go with it, and I am grateful that Mike was so open and helpful to the cause.

I sing, and I declare that song
Is my highest form of communication.

I am because I sing.
Because I have a voice, 
And ears with which to hear it.

Because I was born into a world with
Vast musical geography,
I have learned to tune my voice in specific
Pitches, to express the light and
The dark passions of existence, all of them,
Through my heavy, liquid heart.

And through the songs of my fellow travelers, I have learned 
To sense the force of life
Which is some form of light,
As it travels to me and through me.

And because I live on a watery planet,
I have witnessed the birth of songs,
In the presence of streams
And of rivers.

Because I inhabit a universe with a force called Time,
That which pushes everything forward into 
Irresistible change,
I have come to see that whatever is real 
Is so much heavier than I ever knew
Because it is so tightly woven,
Even as it is so much lighter and softer
Than I ever knew, because
We can barely touch the weave

And yet our hearts and brains drown
In the quest to understand
How it all was made
But the fabric is whatever we touch and
Whatever we name it
For the mysterious consciousness which so moves us
Moves through our hearts
Obeying the will of flow

So, what if all that which we ponder is yet
Imperfect and incomplete at every level, 
Still flowing toward something and somewhere?
What if flow, by balancing the force of life,
And the force of decay, is the creator?

Hope grows with the desire to maintain that which
Has already been created, and with the giving
Of outspoken love to the mysteries 
Which define us

I sing, and therefore I am 
Existing, in a place where song
Is the highest form of liquid communication
And how is song not the very consciousness which
Makes me declare that I am?

Why should mystery not exist?  
Why should we ever understand it all?
What if our heavy, liquid hearts 
Generate some part of the force 
Which drives us to live while we may?



Gerry Wass
2/28/2021
(Spoken to the song “Ethereal Superconscious”
By The Anthropophobia Project)

A Heavy, Liquid Heart

I just invented HyperProg!

Who knew you could play the hook to money machine to the following chords:

Bm7 - Cmaj7 - Dsus - Cm+9 - Em - Fdim - G - Em - DaugMaj7 - D7 - Cmaj7 - G B7 - Am

Check out some other stupid covers of songs at https://soundcloud.com/negativeplayer/sets/covers

Money Machine Prog

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On The Nature Of Daylight - Max Richter(Cover)

----LYRICS----

and i wish i could promise or say something honest 
cause this instance i can't
so lets lie once again and pretend it's the end
i know from my heart it's not
just lies must be said to depart

don't tell me you miss me or how you used to kiss me
why do we still talk? 
we're just strangers whose lives once crossed
and I'm a boy who time forgot

you may hate me, break me, anything to shape me 
into what i was
we were strangers whose lives once crossed
and we remain as often thoughts

To Depart (feat. Pocket Dial)

2023 Demo of Lovesick Lullaby, recorded super quickly to compare with other demos

Lovesick Lullaby (Acoustic Demo)

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La Catedral Part 1 - Agustin Barrios Mangoré (Cover)

Wrote the lyrics for this a few years ago with the chords going back to when I had only been playing a few years and just learnt 7th chords. It's probably the original of mine that gets the most attention at open mics. I like it. So here is a simple acoustic demo version. One day i'll do the song properly, with a drum kit and a bass, and maybe finally figure out a nice harmony for the vocals.....

Get Your Head Up (Demo)

Presenting... The Papa Toners! This week I got HUGE help from @TrexJones @Starcry @therumster & @allymacmusic. This song might just leave you skankin' all the way back to the late 90's!

Who I Am

This is a song about breaking up, not because you want to, but because it seems like the best thing for both of you. Or maybe thats just how you rationalise it to yourself. Started working on this over a year ago but decided to not redo any of the guitars and do the best I could with it. Maybe that was a bad decision. If I ever decide to rerecord it I could probably make it sound better.  Kinda just wanted to get it out there and move on from the song (for now).

Lyrics:
Don’t do this easily
Don’t wanna cause you strife
Slowly killing us, I can’t safeguard your life
So much we could work on, so hard to find the time
Between breakups and breakdowns
Between half truths and lies

It’s not for myself
It’s for us both there is something wrong
We both need some more help
Taking our time, but everything leads back to this

Unhealthy partnership unhealthy minds
Searching for something you never find
Build it back to normal
Build walls in our lives
Between breakups and breakdowns
Between half truth and lies 

It’s not for myself
It’s for us both there is something wrong
We both need some more help
Wasting our time, cus everything leads back to this

I promised you this wouldn’t happen
A promise I could never keep
Both our worlds are so misshapen
This is what we really need
I’m ending this right now
Just need to find a way out

It’s not for myself
It’s for us both there is something wrong
We both need some more help
Taking our time, but everything leads back to this

Unhealthy Minds (Demo)

Had the guitar written for this for ages and recently put it to some nice lyrics about performing at an open mic, no ones listening except the one person you care about, and that's all you need. Lots of clean up possible but kinda burnt out on it and wanna move on, initially thought id have harmonising vocals and some strings but I never got them to work (hence the demo).

Lyrics:
The bar is filled with noise
Louder than my voice
My song will go unheard
Aren't open mics absurd
But you're always listening
I know that you care
lost the room but I'm focusing
On the moment that we share


Guess it feels the same
Our secret type of fame
You can't be outdone
My audience of one
Well do it all again
Our self indulgent game
You always make it fun
My audience of one


I crack a stupid joke
Your laughter gives me hope
You've heard them all before
Still laugh while they ignore
Dont care they're not listening
I just care that you do
Lost the room but I'm focusing
Focusing on you


Guess it feels the same
A secret type of fame
You can't be outdone
My audience of one
Well do it all again
Our self indulgent game
You always make it fun
My audience of one

Audience Of One (Demo)

And there could be at any moment a change
And if perhaps to put us down
I won't act like I've seen something strange
Maybe I just won't make a sound

But when the door closes before my eyes
Oh, oh I will cry
Just to know you are going to stay
Out on the side

No I'm not looking to find any holes
From what I think has been denied
That's not the feeling of love when it flows
I hope I can lose that much pride

And if it should come the time when we lose
No I won't try to hide
I'll just watch other's love as it goes
Out on the side

I have fallen through black nights it seems
With the times that I've lied
And I've watched your thoughts stray into dreams
When you're not satisfied

But when the door closes before my eyes
Oh, oh I will cry
Just to know you are going to stay
Out on the side
Out on the side

Out On The Side [Cover]

NI based guitarist tryna write and record good songs

Get Your Head Up (Demo)

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