Antony & Cleopatra Head For The Highlands

Gentle song inspired by a Ukrainian documentary called The Distant Barking of Dogs, about a boy called Oleg growing up in the Donbas during the pre-war conflict between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists. In one scene his local friend, a teenager called Kostya, showed him a gun...

Kostya Got a Gun

Ghost in the Machine

Help me now
Where the skies collide
Help me now
Where the world divides

Help me now
The pilot's bailed, this plane is going down
As flower flames burst out upon the ground
To free the ghosts in the machine

You'd say
You never promised nothing anyway
Trapped in a pile-up on the motorway
A broken ghost in the machine

Help me now
Where the seconds end
Help me now
Where the hours bend

Help me now
The plug's been pulled, the screens are closing down
There's no more oxygen to go around
They've killed the ghosts in the machine

You'll find
Caught in the tangled cables in your mind 
In the all the wreckage that you left behind
A lonely ghost in the machine

Oh to pretend
That we are angels who were heaven sent,
Not grinning androids running out of rent
To keep a ghost in the machine!

Ghost In The Machine

The Robot

He opened his eyes
Charged by the light
Born by a spark in his head
And scanning the room
His circuits in bloom
He saw her awake on the bed
"Oh wonderful friend
Oh wonderful friend"

Segments of time
Metronomed through his mind
Things she called minutes and days
He sang her his rhymes
In binary chimes
Set all his diodes ablaze
"Oh now never end
Oh now never end
Oh now never end"

Layers of time
Partitioned his mind
Obstacles crowded his view
Conveyed in the dark
To a world full of sparks
Where rust is made shiny and new 
Melt into the flame
Melt into the flame
Melt into the flame
Melt into the flame

For so we must start
These mechanical hearts
That spin just to flicker and fade
Forced to climb shelves
And escape from ourselves
And all of the masks we have made
But let the wires be right
Let the code save our sight
May we see in the night
And walk into the light
Walk into the light
Walk into the light.

The Robot

Night Song

Midnight
Staring awake at the street lights
Telling myself that it's alright
It’s nothing that won't wash away
In the daylight.

Silence
All of the noise is in my mind
Hoping this time you won't pass by
Though I only know music you don't like
I'll try

I need you to tell me
Sometimes I'm still in your dreams
If you dance with me
If you dance with me

Time
Turns all our songs to dead sound
Promises fade from the foreground
Corridors closing all around

Maybe you’ll see
I'm falling apart at the seams
If you dance with me
If you dance with me

Night Song

Reykjavik

The wind flew in
Shook the skin we were growing in
Tired eyes
Fixed upon frozen granite skies

The wind dug in
Bit the skin we were shaking in
Blizzard road
Up ahead the never-ending snow

And you said

Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever

Oh the lights
In our eyes shining gold and white
Oh the lights
In our smiles illuminate the night

The wind dug in
Clawed the skin you were fading in
Blizzard road
Up ahead the closing of the show

How well we know

Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
Oh Reykjavik
Nothing lasts forever

Oh the lights
In our eyes shining gold and white
Oh the lights
Will go out tonight
Oh the lights
Will go out tonight

White light
Burn bright
Then go out tonight

Songs Of The Electric Night

Reykjavik

A bit of whimsical nostalgia - my lyrics & tune on top of a lovely short bit of music by Jim Pearson. Check out his Shorts vol.1 on Bandcamp if you're interested in collaborating.

The price of bread statistic is anally accurate for the period 1982 - 2005* (*source ONS).

A Short Economic And Social History

A song about how not to go about buying your dream guitar - in collaboration with Jim Pearson and his Shorts vol.1 project on Bandcamp.

Ian David Green

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