The 5th of 5 releases from the Rooz & Gun Factory sessions, this track was the first written and final to be unleashed. Like a mood swing, it delves into the lightest indie and heaviest rock influences of Desert Dusk. An indie melody dances around the swaggering heavy rock, as if Primal Scream and Muse made the incredibly unlikely step of forming a desert rock band. Which is why we made it instead.


LYRICS

If you open up
If you fill your cup
When you let them in
Then you get the love

When you open up
If you feel your gut
When you lift the lid
Then you get the love

All the way that you wanted
Where no one holds out
And no one knows how
But it's a shame when your fear shouts down

I won't fall now
I won't fall now
I won't fall now

Will you open up
Will you fill your cup
If you let them in
Then you get the love

When you open up
If you can feel your blood
When the moment comes
Then you get the love
Then you get the love

It’s there if you want it
Get up and reach out
Leave nothing toned down
But it’s a shame, they’re waiting for the gun
They’re just waiting for the gun

I won't fall now
I won't fall now
I won't fall now

Open Up

Recorded live at 93 ft East. 16th Nov 2016

Monomaniac (Live)

"Loafer" recorded live & raw in a bootleg style on a single mic taped to a pillar in the middle of the room at The Slaughtered Lamb on 14 September 2017.

Loafer (Live at The Slaughtered Lamb)

WITSIN

LYRICS

???

Why does my heart exist
Why does it skip
Why do we not resist
Why in this trip

Why does my heart exist
Why, what's this gift
Why do we not resist
Why in this trip

Oh oh oh oh

Why does my heart exist
Why does it skip
Why do we not resist
Why why why...

Why does my heart exist
Why does it twist
Why, is this all there is
Why why why...

Oh oh oh oh

???

CREDITS (as ever, never simple!)
Written & Performed by Desert Dusk 
Drums & Bass Recorded at Rooz Room 8 by Luca 
Guitars Recorded at Rooz Room 8 by Stuart Barker
Vocals Recorded and full track Engineered & Mixed at Gun Factory by Ben Freeze
Mastered at The Bakehouse Studios by Justin Drake

A driving, danceable rock n roll track that could document a rewrite of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and transport it to the backstreets of Desert Dusk's East London rehearsal base. The sound and pace imagines a Hunter S. Thompson hallucination where he has Quantum Leaped into Bruce Springsteen and is now writing Born To Run with Josh Homme and Alex Turner instead of the E Street Band. 

LYRICS
Outside there's an honest ride that you've heard before
In time they will see who's right when I reach your door
Oh baby when you're hurting, my driving mind still yearning
Inside that echo you're in overdrive

Sunrise it's a fresh delight for these eyes, so sore
A green track for the city chap now he'll get what for
And they might come knocking in the nick of time
Like your big fat mother telling big fat lies
You're running round in circles now a hundred times
The first chance it seemed like
Coming alive, coming alive, coming alive

Don't dream your tired eyes above
Don't lose your mind in that pickup truck
And it hurt so much it must be love
Oh god, there's nothing better I can't get enough

Let's go, go
Never before have I been so high on affection
I heard my life's on the line
You want to be the one we've got to cross that line
Let's go
Let go go go, go

Oh oh oh ohh
Oh oh oh ohh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh

Oh oh oh ohh
Oh oh oh ohh
Oh oh oh ohh
Oh oh oh, ohh ohh ohh
Oh oh oh, ohh ohh ohh
Oh oh oh, ohh ohh ohhh oh

Pickup Truck

LYRICS

YOUTH OF BEING FREE
There's a new voice for you and me
It's got a message for our dreams
Indeed, it took forever for us to believe
Then they all said "oh, why must it happen to me?"
We all say "oh, why does it happen to me?"

It took a youth of being free
To understand that we've been worked out and pushed down
And now we're going to feel it as we're 
Clamped down and stamped out and that's when we still say
"Oh, why must it happen to me?"
We all say "oh, why must it happen to me?"

Youth of Being Free

Youth Of Being Free

LYRICS

Intro
Just too far away
Just too far away
Just too far

Verse 1
Heaven’s not far away
Is that your paradise?
Heaven’s right here today
Is that a sight without a sound?

Bridge 1
Fight right through the light
Oh yeah you fight, right, through the light
You feel you’re wading into walls
Can you wait or can you pause
And you might, see, through, but you’re...

Chorus
Just too far away
Just too far away
Just too far today
That’s the way you stay
And it hits you

Verse 2
Heaven’s not far today
That makes you paralysed
Heaven’s not what they say
Does that mean, well, 
Are you never to know?
Is it just out of sight?

Bridge 2
You’ve got to
Fight right through the light
Oh yeah you might, find, that’s what you like
There’s a choice that’s in your eyes
Realise and trace the lines
Oh will you fight? Bite? HA!

Chorus
Just too far away
Just too far away
Just too far away
And that’s the way it’s going to stay
And it hits you

Outro
Not far away
Not far away 
Not far away
Not far....


CREDITS: (as ever, never simple)

Written & Performed by Desert Dusk
Drums & Bass Recorded at Rooz Room 8 by Luca Franco
Guitars Recorded at Rooz Room 8 by Stuart Barker
Vocals Recorded and full track Engineered & Mixed at Gun Factory by Ben Freeze
Mastered at The Bakehouse Studios by Justin Drake

Just Too Far

Desert Dusk are a new electronic rock band - riffs & sounds that swing between QOTSA and UNKLE, and Radiohead and Liars.

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