Beautiful! Thanks for sharing how it is for you so richly. This is The Great Turning. Sending great big virtual hugs dear man. It's been waaaay too long.

Feel good DnB track, acoustic meets drums!

No Reason

From the Earth Beneath Our Feet album.  This was a working title that came from the 'the cliffs of Dover' line (if you are old enough your will understand).  Like many working titles it stuck.

These days it’s ok, these days it’s ok
We break and then we mend 
Most times we end up as friends

And if I lose my place and need a map
You put your finger on the page let me follow the route you take
We’re the last of the loving kind, the last of the loving kind

The cliffs of Dover they seem so white
I look for bluebirds but they keep out of sight

Back at the start I just followed my heart
Though its contours and geography were never that clear to me
So I just went with the flow carried up where the wind blows
Cross the hills and through the towns picking up where it set me down

The cliffs of Dover they seem so white
I look for bluebirds but they keep out of sight

I’m coming into land with a wave from your hand
I fold my wings and settle down
The grass feels soft, the air so still
And there’s bluebirds over the hill

Vera Lynn

Moody grungepunk about girls you love to hate!!!!!

Body Girl

Next Time With Feeling brass demo v2

For every mum or dad who's ever had to leave their beautiful child, whether it be for one night, one week, one month, one year, or sadly longer....

Another new one, written and recorded on my mobile phone 06/08/2012



Ian Roberts ~ I Dream of You (mobile phone recordings)

This track was written in Spring. A time we also call ‘the quickening’.
It’s a reflection of life’s turns, the way time moves, the quiet things. It’s about love of life, each other and nature.
When I wrote this it seemed to come from the depths of my belly;  blossoming as it emerged like the first delicate snowdrops of the season.
It’s a song about all things seen and unseen.
I hope you like it.

Stay Wild

The Quickening / Untethered and Brave

This was written after the loss of my husband... I'd like to tell you that I no longer feel like this!!

Let Me Fall April 2019

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."

Demos

Springtime Breathing (demo)

Still a demo at the moment and my second song for FAWM 2021. An ode to the tragic tale of Donald Crowhurst. I'll get a finished version out at some point this year I reckon - quite like this one.

Springtime Breathing (demo)

Duncan Batey

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