great fucking title. great fucking progression of energy. Lyrics just awesome. only thing I could knock is theres no cowbell.

HERE MY SONG BEGINS AGAIN....I AM MORE FOR "ENERGY" SWING ...SWING LONGER BRUDER AND KICK SOME POSER ASS YOU CAN

Awesome song, awesome production. Well done.

I Wrote A Song

I wrote Lay Down Your Weapons in 2011 while on tour in Indonesia. I have been playing it live during the past couple of tours and there have been many requests that I release some version of it.  Because of the the senseless, ongoing gun violence that is plaguing America I felt even more acutely that I wanted this song to be available to anyone who wanted to hear it.  The lyric was not written as a political statement and is obviously a metaphor about fraught human relationships but I do feel personally there are many types of weapons out there that need to be "laid down" for good and forever.  Thank you for listening.


Lay Down Your Weapons

Duncan Sheik is a Grammy Award and two-time Tony Award winning singer-songwriter and composer. As a solo artist, Duncan's ubiquitous hit "Barely Breathing" spent 55 weeks on the Billboard's Hot 100 Chart and propelled the sales of his Atlantic Records debut to 750,000 copies. As a composer, Sheik again found success with his musical, Spring Awakening, which earned 8 Tony Awards, including "Best Musical" and garnered accolades and A+ reviews. Spring Awakening proved influential on Broadway and the New York Times predicted "Broadway, with its often puerile sophistication and its sterile romanticism, may never be the same". Sheik is currently working on stage productions of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Sheik has released two new tracks, “Photograph” and “Circling” from from his forthcoming album, Legerdemain, scheduled for a spring 2015 release. 


Lay Down Your Weapons

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