sad sickness

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Lungful

Take in a breath and treasure the light
Don’t let them see you move, you've got nothing to prove
Hold out your palms and place them in mine
Don’t let me feel you shake, in fear they find mistake

Silence the song with bugles that play
You need to hear the call, they’re wishing you to fall
Don’t let them see you fail
I will not let you fail

© Douglas Dare 2013

Seven Hours (Bonus Digital Booklet Version)

Lungful

whisper:
weeping over our lives
in darkness, as billows roll,
morning for ourselves
that he might pity us,
hating ourselves
for what we are now.
voice:
All our words fall lifeless,
Broken down and soft,
Like a hawk without wings,
Pale tune without a song.
I recall when our words weren't so cold.

Innocent don't play here
Fields purged with bombs
Pouring fire on children
Will you buy yours another dog?
How can we suffer you any more?
chorus:
Where are our warriors
When all the guns are pointed
At our heads in the name of the law
To lawfully kill for profit?

All that I see are liars and thieves
Making the laws and making the wars.
On the TV they talk about peace
And we obediently pay for it all.

These psychopaths feed on power and greed
We can no longer be fucking around.
The warriors are here, the hour is near,
We'll put them in the cold, open ground.

name your price

Cold Open Ground

This song is about dancing  with the muse...  the creative spirit which often feels to me, like a little bird...  elusive and surprisingly powerful.
Thanks to my lovely son Flint for the little bird photo - a New Zealand wax-eye.

Come little bird fly to me....       

Come little bird fly to me
soft as a feather a song wild and flying free
come little bird sing to me
spin and dance in the limitless stars

Come little bird fly to me
I am cold I’m alone and I don’t like the way  that I
fill up my silences
dance all my days in deep sorrow

Come little bird fly to me
through the ocean of silence the way that our hearts keep on
breaking to pieces you’ll never ever know
that you’d been there until you arrived

Come little bird fly to me
through the deep layers of dreaming the webs we have woven 
to bind us down fast, the deep well of sadness
in which I fear I be drowning

Come little bird fly to me
in the mirror of silence reflection of dreams spilling 
over and under and sweet down the 
deep of your cheeks...

Come little bird... fly to me

Relied On Luck - Magic Carpet Factory

Recorded at AOO Studios, Hull.

MAGIC CARPET FACTORY - Relied On Luck

'Baby Blue Eyes' is taken from the upcoming sixth album due for release October 2016. This is an early version of the song.  

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In 2012 Cast reunited with original producer John Leckie (Stone Roses, Radiohead, The Fall) to release a new album ‘Troubled Times’ the first studio album in over ten years, the fifth following the now classic 'All Change', the fastest ever selling debut album on Polydor Records at the time, outstripping even The Who. 

After releasing four albums on Polydor the essence of Cast never laid idle. John Power released 3 solo albums, made a theatrical debut as John Lennon in a stage production of 'Lennon' and featured on the UK Christmas Number 1 'He's My Brother' with The Justice Collective, seeking justice for the 96 people that died at a football match in 1989. The complete studio recordings of John Power 2002-2015 boxset was released in May 2015.

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