Sick beat. These screeching brasses are something else

This started life with me messing about with a capo on a high fret of my nylon string guitar. My first attempt at words was genuinely awful. "You make the dinner and I'll pour some wine...." sort-of-thing... BLEURGH. As with many slow numbers, I found that going darker with the lyrics unlocked the song. Disclaimer: I don't think anyone would actually be like this in real life, I just rather enjoyed the metaphor (and the title, I like the title).

LYRICS

You strike a match
And I'll toss it in
We'll watch together
As the fire begins
It's a kind of addiction
We both know is a sin
But who cares

Stand in the moonlight
Watching the flames
The innocent victims
With unmemorable names
And sooner or later
We'll do it again
So who cares

There goes our love again
There goes our love again

Your friends think I'm crazy
I'm poison for you
I'm weak and I'm lazy
Hell, most of it's true
But deep down they know
That you're built like that too
So who cares

When we're together
The flames never cease
We’re both like a jigsaw
With one missing piece
I guess maybe someone
Should call the police
But who cares

There goes our love again
There goes our love again

Oh, I know it’s crazy
But I love to watch it burn
So let’s burn it down again

There goes our love again
There goes our love again
There goes our love again

The Arsonists

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Archive track no. 2, re-recorded for a potential album later this year...

LYRICS

Cool kids on the promenade
Know they're going nowhere fast
I make a note on a postcard
Says, "I'm leaving but I won't get far"

In a field by the fairground
I just came to take a look around
There’s a song in the background
The singer makes a sound like

Hold me baby, hold me baby
Hold til I'm a little bit stronger
Hold me baby, hold me baby
Hold me just a little bit longer

Maybe we’re all just skin and bones
Hearing voices on the radio
Maybe we’re all just skimming stones
While our dreams sink into the foam
Maybe we're all just waiting
Don't know what for, but waiting
Maybe we’re all just skin and bones
With these voices on the radio

See the thing about this ghost town
Is you're always on the way down
So when the kids hear a new sound
They'll all be going round like

Hold me baby, hold me baby
Hold til I'm a little bit stronger
Hold me baby, hold me baby
Hold me just a little bit longer

Maybe we’re all just skin and bones
Hearing voices on the radio
Maybe we’re all just skimming stones
While our dreams sink into the foam
Maybe we're all just waiting
Don't know what for, but waiting
Maybe we’re all just skin and bones
With these voices on the radio

You can lose yourself for hours and hours
Doesn’t matter when it’s ours, all ours
Yeah, but when the sun goes down
You're still stuck in this old town
So maybe I’ll stick around after all

Hearing voices on the radio
Hearing voices on the radio
(Hold me baby...)

Maybe we’re all just skin and bones
Hearing voices on the radio
Maybe we’re all just skimming stones
While our dreams sink into the foam
Maybe we're all just waiting
Don't know what for, but waiting
Maybe we’re all just skin and bones
With these voices on the radio

Voices On The Radio

demo for FSD
keys/beat: DJTJB
Production/Arrangement: Nahlej
vox: FSD

No Pretends (FSD Super Secret Demo Prod. By The Practitioners)

I play in a Thursday nite  garage band during the winter  months to play and jam. This year
we started to play “ Moondance” by Van the Man. On one occasion I began the chord progression on the Bm7 to Am7 bounce which is the opposite of what I should have done. BUT i liked that sound. 
	So this 2 chord song is based on the Bm7 to Am7 progression and repeated every 8 bars. The trick was to get each 8  bar section to sound different. Music is a challenge .but that’s why we do it. 

There is a brass section in the song as a tribute to Van Morrison. 

A song inspired by a “mistake”!

MISTAKE!

This one was a late-February idea that didn't get over the line a) because it felt very heavy, and b) I wasn't convinced it was particularly good. It's still heavy, but I'm liking it a lot more now :)

The pause in production also meant I could use my recently purchased Boss DD-200 delay pedal. And use it I have. Probably too liberally, but never mind.

LYRICS

Sarah, all I have are questions
I don’t have the answers yet
Even with the best intentions
We were running up a debt
Until the time had come to pay it
I guess that’s what you get
At least we’ll always have Berlin
Strolling through the Tiergarten last Spring

Sarah, all I ever wanted
Was to see you smile
Instead of always looking haunted
The defendant in a trial
But every time I tried to solve it
I just made it worse
At first I didn’t see it, now I do
I only wish that you could see it too

And I don’t have much to say
But I’m going to say it anyway
Even if I hesitate
To set it down
To set it right down
It’s three o’clock at night
I stare into this square of light
Try to find a way to write
To tell you why
I just can’t say goodbye

You were standing in the garden
In that dress your mother made
The leaves were pale and golden
As the light began to fade
I could see that you’d been crying
In that understated way
That Sarah, you would always do
As if you hadn’t really wanted to

And I don’t have much to say
But I’m going to say it anyway
Even if I hesitate
To set it down
To set it right down
It’s three o’clock at night
I stare into this square of light
Try to find a way to write
To tell you why
I just can’t say goodbye

I can’t say goodbye
I can’t say goodbye...

Dear Sarah

Harvester X Sprinter

Lyrics © Bill White (billwhite.bandcamp.com/)
Harmonica: Mike Skliar (http://www.mikeskliar.com/)

After The Dance

Good To Be Here

Sun
Summer is dysthymia
Soul
Closest to the sun
But
It’s winter in Johannesburg
Soltice
In both hemispheres
It’s never fair when crabs turn into lions

The Crab and The Lion

I am not AI, I am Gm7, I will not assimilate

Practicioners 

Mega Mind

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