Lost In Space (Love Is The Line)

Title track of Blindsided EP by Somerset Songwriter Competition Winner Duncan Batey. 

Blindsided can be downloaded at www.duncanbatey.co.uk 

Blindsided

One from the vaults - an autumnal piece from 2009, partly inspired by a news item about old Mills & Boon novels being used in the underlay for a new motorway. No, really. 

Ripples (demo) [FLAC]

Happy Valentine's Day...

feat. Gerry Barnett - cello & percussion

Desire Is A Nameless Rose (demo)

One for the Extinction Rebellion crew

                              Planet B                     
            
The song of the Earth, in brown blue and green                 
Say goodbye to this
We shape and we take, encroach and contain                        
Say goodbye to this

We know what we're doing, a slow road to ruin
Say goodbye to this
Greed – another word for taking, dividing and forsaking
We shrink and we die

Connection is all, divided we fall, and we can
Say goodbye to all of this
So reach out and touch, there's no 'it' and 'us'
We are a part of this

We know what we're doing, our slow road to ruin
We are a part of this
Greed – another word for hating, dividing and forsaking
We shrink and we die

The song of the Earth, in brown blue and green
We are a part of this
Connection is all, divided we fall, because
There is no planet B

We know what we're doing, our slow road to ruin
There is no planet B 
Do you see – we may as well be staking, and endlessly debating
Who owns the sky?

The song of the Earth, the seen and unseen
We are a part of this
So reach out and touch, there's no 'it' and 'us'
And there is no planet B

There is no planet B


             (c) Duncan Batey 2016

Logaston Demos, August 2016

Planet B (demo)

Strange Disease (demo)

Track 4 from the album 'Little Black Classics' by Duncan Batey available at www.duncanbatey.co.uk

Little Black Classics

Stoney Ground

Lockdown ditty from solitary flat-dweller in an English market-town somewhere in deepest darkest Somerset.

"The silence is deafening, the walls caving in
You just want to reach out and touch someone, feel the pressure on skin
And you're wondering how long it's been, how long it will be
Until you see your friends again, until you feel free

Springtime breathing, the world turned to green
England's dreaming of leaving the dream

Sleepwalking  through empty streets, a ghost in your shell
With your groundhog day on repeat, we're all caught in this spell
You just want to reach out and touch someone, break through these screens
And you say 'well it's been lovely but now I just want to SCREAM'

Springtime breathing in a world turned to green
England's dreaming of leaving the dream
Springtime breathing, we're all caught in this spell
England's dreaming of leaving this hell...

And the silence is deafening, the walls caving in
You just want to reach out and touch someone, skin upon skin
And the springtime's breathing, we're all caught in this spell
England's dreaming new stories to tell."

Duncan Batey

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