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Rock With You

💋 Come closer she wants to bite

Lyrics
The flower girl hunting with her wiles
Plucking hearts like daisies in the wild
Carefree soul with an angel’s smile
The devil hiding in her guile    

Heart-taker, maneater
Cherry lips that make you linger
Heart-taker, maneater
Twisting ‘round all her ten fingers

Wilding one as dark as they come
Batting lashes until you succumb
 Pour souls slinkin’ in one by one 
A pretty face you can’t escape from  

Heart-taker, man-eater
Cherry lips that make you linger 
Heart-taker, maneater
Twisting round all her ten fingers


Flower girl on the prowl
Dewdrop kisses from her red roses
Ravished reveries, the thorns you devour
Silky pleas, wanton threats she imposes

Come closer, she wants to bite
Come closer, she wants to bite

Heart-taker, maneater
Cherry lips that make you linger
Heart-taker, maneater
Twisting round all her ten fingers

Heart-taker, man-eater
Cherry lips that make you linger

F girl

Lyrics:

I gave you a disease on purpose
Does that make me worthless?
I just wanted to feel something
And I felt really guilty

Your head might get tilty
Hell you might even die
I don't care if you hit me
Because at least I'll be able to cry

Sorry I didn't want you to go
Sorry I tried to stop you
Sorry I decided to show
My true colours

My colour at the moment is pale
Because of illness and because I got caught
I hope they don't put me in jail
I'll just hide behind these bars

Got you but you still made it far
Now you're laughing in face
How can you be so close
When you're a thousand miles away?

Sorry I didn't want you to go
Sorry I tried to stop you
Sorry I decided to show
My true colours

Now I'm still ill
And you're having fun
Oh my god
What have I done

Sorry I didn't want you to go
Sorry I tried to stop you
Sorry I decided to show
My true colours

True Colours

Short Song, Few Lyrics, Lotsa Guitar!

Sun Pinned On Ghost Sky

So It Goes

Back Where We First Began

A Stunning Portrait

18oh4

Outsider - the new single from Essex noir indie outfit Slow Husky, out 21st November 2025. 

Marking their first new material since their debut EP in January, which featured tracks played by Steve Lamacq on BBC6 Music, BBC Introducing and beyond. Outsider finds Slow Husky exploring deeper into their influences to create an epic breathless journey at breakneck speed.

“Your life so fragile in their hands
Black swan on the river, a real outsider
But trouble is a hunter
An uninvited guest”

Driven by explosive drums and bass, cinematic jangly guitars and evocative vocals, the song provides tension and release for an exhilarating 3 minutes and 38 seconds of classic indie sounds. 

“Love like you’re falling apart”.

Outsider

2nd single from upcoming full length

Fuzzy punk rock

CONTACT: hrkr@hrkr.co.uk
PRESS: maynard@majortransmission.com

Redacted

Written & Produced by Sam Leoh
Additional Writing & Production by Spiros Maus
Mixed & Mastered by Spiros Maus

LYRICS:
I think of when you chose me
How without you there’s no me
I feel safe, I feel at home, whenever you hold me
We’re going through a shake-up
Here’s hoping that we make up
I still do, take bullets for you, can we cancel the break-up?

Just so you know, I can’t let it go
You’re my light and it shows
How did it all unfold?
Just so you know, I can’t let it go
You’re my light and it shows
How did it all unfold?

I see a flicker inside
Is it really goodbye?
Is it really that time?
I see a flicker inside
Is it really goodbye?
Is it really that time?

If only we could go back
To warmer nights and long chats
How we felt and how we laughed, nobody could fake that
Boulevards and palm trees
Holding on to reveries
All the hopes and dreams we shared, and all of the memories

Just so you know, I can’t let it go
You’re my light and it shows
How did it all unfold?
Just so you know, I can’t let it go
You’re my light and it shows
How did it all unfold?

I see a flicker inside
Is it really goodbye?
Is it really that time?
I see a flicker inside
Is it really goodbye?
Is it really that time?

Flickers

The first of a new series of piano improvisations performed and recorded on a stray Steinway at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.
The music will feature on a new album of piano compositions and improvisations recorded at The Glasshouse in summer 2025.
More music is available on my Bandcamp page: paulstephentaylor.bandcamp.com/
For aficionados of piano improvisation, maximalist soundscapes and everything in between.

Clandesteinway I

🔥 ATLANTA’S NEXT ANTHEM IS HERE — “SKYSCRAPERS” BY DaMusical Bandit ft. GUNNA 🔥

A bold new wave is rising out of Atlanta’s skyline, and its name is “Skyscrapers.” This record is more than just a song — it’s a vision, a statement, and a sound that captures the grind, the glow-up, and the glory of the city that never stops hustling.

DaMusical Bandit, Atlanta’s next big name, delivers a raw yet polished performance — balancing pain and power, ambition and art. His flow is magnetic, his voice a reflection of every sleepless night and every dream built brick by brick. Gunna slides in effortlessly, his signature melodic trap cadence elevating the track into an atmospheric masterpiece.

The beat? Pure elevation — lush pads, rolling 808s, and shimmering hi-hats that feel like city lights reflecting off glass towers. It’s cinematic, it’s emotional, and it sounds like success in motion.

“Skyscrapers” isn’t just about height — it’s about rise. Rising from the struggle. Rising from the noise. Rising until your story touches the clouds.

With this record, DaMusical Bandit proves he’s not just another ATL rapper — he’s the next voice of the city. Industry insiders are already calling it a breakthrough moment, and it’s only a matter of time before the world looks up.

🚀 This is more than a track — it’s a takeover.
🎧 “Skyscrapers” — DaMusical Bandit ft. Gunna.
The city’s in the clouds. Are you coming up?

Skyscrapers ft. Gunna

Lifestyle

Debunker (Over and over)

This song came together while Diane was still at her home in Greece, and completed once she was back in the UK. Kevin sent some crunchy percussion, fat bass sounds and hypnotic drones. Diane began by looping and stitching these together. 

Maybe it was the building work going on at a construction site across the ravine from her Cretan home that caused her to start adding samples of power tools! Next, she got out her midi keyboard and added some weird bubbly sounds and wicked subs—and that extraordinary middle section of brass and guitars.

There followed a month of ill health, and this, together with lots of mundane domestic crises, slowed down work for the duo on both sides of the Atlantic. This enforced hiatus gave an opportunity for the grim political landscape around the globe to wrap its deadly tentacles of despair around the pair, sapping their strength and threatening to throttle the creative processes, but in the end, their battle against the forces of darkness helped form the theme of the song. 
 
At last, a melody was written that suited the many different textures and complexities of the emerging song. Lyrically, things came together surprisingly quickly, the first two lines falling into place out of nowhere, inviting Diane to follow them to see where they might lead. Some of the lyrics remain mysterious, like images glimpsed in a fever dream, but no doubt reflecting the turmoil of the weeks that spawned them, and the hope that pulls us all through.
 
After the storm we’ll build a garden
And in the garden we’ll plant a tree
And on that tree we’ll hang a rumour
And in the rumour there will be murder.

And so we wait for dawn in this afterlight,
Say we’d settle for a better night,
And in the morning light will the dark replay
With another day of woe?

And in the parlour there’ll be a reckoning
The lights are low
And when it’s over, we’ll have a party
And in the parlour they’re crying no no no

And so we carry hope like it’s contraband
Hid beneath the tongue in this prisonland
And in my fist there shines this tiny sun
And it warms me with its glow

Another life. No no.

And in the morning we won’t forget you
We may forgive you, we’d never kill you

Turn around turn around

In another life. No no.

And in the morning a reclamation
Our eyes are lifted to the horizon


Afterlight

cloning people - three seasons (from the fallen angel ep)

fallen angel

three seasons

I wrote the first version of this poem in 2016, when it was published by The New European. Now set to The Big Grey Man’s music, it’s my offering for Christmas 2025, to stand opposite the saccharine and politically naïve Christmas songs that prevail at this time of year. As successive governments pursue inhumane and inhuman immigration, welfare and anti-peace policies, it’s a message of hope and determination. I reject hate. I reject evil. That’s the real message, not just at Christmas, but all year round.

Spoken
I reject that autumn starts on the first of September.
I reject that organised religion is faith.
I reject that faith engenders violence.
I reject that one faith is greater than another.
I reject that faith and science are mutually exclusive.
I reject that one country is greater than another.
I reject that humans are basically bad.
I reject that war is inevitable.
I reject that peace is impossible.
I reject that those who seek peace are appeasers.
I reject that those who oppose war are cowards.
I reject that austerity is a sound economic principle.
I reject that the poor should pay for the crimes of the rich.
I reject that immigration should be limited.
I reject that there’s a difference between races.
I reject that there’s any difference between individuals.
I reject that Brexit is permanent.
I reject that the sword is mightier than the pen.
I reject that love is nothing more than chemistry.
I reject hate.
I reject evil.

Sung
No lo creo.
Ten valor.
No pasarán.
Ven conmigo.
Estamos unidos.
No nos silenciarán.

I don't think so.
Have courage.
They shall not pass.
Come with me.
We are united.
They will not silence us.

Spoken
I reject evil.
I reject hate.

I believe that it’s not too late.

I reject evil.
I reject hate.

And I declare that it’s not too late.

Lyrics: Richard Pierce
Additional Lyrics: The Big Grey Man
Spoken Word: Richard Pierce
Music: The Big Grey Man
All instruments: The Big Grey Man
Sung vocals: The Big Grey Man
Engineering & production: The Big Grey Man
ISRC: QT6EU2590926

I Reject

About Time

Glitter Party [Explicit]

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