Rooftops and Chimney Pots

True (1993)

Some of the vocals are embedded due to track bouncing, but it'll have to do...

Rooftops and Chimney Potts

You Could Come Home (1993)

I was going through some tracks that i mucked around with during lock down, and decided to develop some into an album starting with this one. Needs a few tweaks...

Entropy

Terribly Vogue (2021)

Starlove Fusion Blinding

So High (1990)

All the Moneys Gone (1993)

Some album filler from the 90s. The vocals are embedded, and the original is lost, so apologies in advance for the poor production...

Electric Deathtrap Circus

Fly With Me (1995)

Written during lock down, I think it needs another Mix.
Another track from this Album is:
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/terribly-vogue-2021

On the Scale of One to Ten (2021)

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Fear Fear (1990)

An old one from the 90s, the vocals are embedded unfortunately....

Where Angels Sing (1999)

Free Fall (1990)

I wrote this one during lockdown a while back, it needs a bit of work....

From Aunty Joan

An Emperor sits on his throne
Building states from human bones
I heard all this from Aunty Joan
She told me on the telephone

Learn to love your inner beast
She said with fortitude at least
put your best foot forward now
Try not to slay the sacred cow

Welcome to the bottom of the pile
You might be here with us for quite a while
And if you're wondering where the moneys gone
It never stays around for far to long long

Prepare for the worst but hope for the best
Scream and shout, don't let it rest
Let it out, get it off your chest

I heard all of this from Aunty Joan
She told me on the bleeding telephone
She told us all this day would soon arrive
And we should hope and pray for our lives

I'm a little wary and skeptical
To drink or not to drink,  and question all
Try not to fight or cause a public brawl
Its what she said to me  if I recall
Unless I want them to cut off my balls

Prepare for the worst but hope for the best
Scream and shout, don't let it rest
Let it out, get it off your chest

I heard all of this from Aunty Joan
She told me on the bleeding telephone
She told us all that day would soon arrive
And we should hope and pray for our lives

From Aunty Joan (Remixed Demo) 2022

From a rock opera written a long time ago in a mind far far away, still needs some work.

Fallen

Hats off for the People (1998)

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Scar Tissue (part two) 2014

Narcotic Delight (Part 2) 2005

The conclusion of my 1990 Pop Operetta.
See the cheap Vid here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G03wrvl1Ses

Falling Down (1990)

Ritch Bitch (1995)

From an old rock opera i wrote at the end of the last millennium.
This concludes act one....needs some tweeks!

Why Cant I See You? (1999)

Written a while back during lockdown...

Vanishing Borders

Prevarication reigns
Somewhere inside but theres nowhere to hide
From sobriety again
Abstenation is no consolation
I dont know this way
You dont know this way
I see the sands of time
Reversing before me
They will not ignore me
I think ive lost my mind
Vanishing borders of Entropic disorder
I dont know this way
Can I stay with you tonight?
I seldom see the light
I dont want to be this way
I can feel decay
I dont want to be this way
I should not be this way
Oh give me a line of coke
We'll roll some midnight tokes
And line 'em up and get 'em in
We'll knock 'em back and sink or swim
I think im lost in time
I think ive lost my mind

Vanishing Borders (2024) 1st mix

Taken from a Rock Opera that I wrote in the 90's...

Let me come home

I went on journey into outer space
And I never came home
I made my escape from the Human race
Just wanted to be left alone

Couldn't take the nine till five
Sunday dinners with the kids and the wife
A mountain of bills coming through my door
Didn't need the grief from the mother in law
Doctor Doctor Doctor
Whats' wrong with my mind?

For now I want to come home
Let me come home

Let me come home
I want to come home
Return to you and face the storm
Home with you where I belong

Let Me Come Home (1999)

I came up with this during lock down a few years back, I thought I'd muck around with it...

From the Orange Tree (2021) remixed demo

Stalker (1993)

Needs a bit of work!

Just Being You

They called you witch, they called you whore
Gave you the cold shoulder, showed you the door
Hacked into your soul, they left it raw
They pierced your ego, right to the core

But I see the light thats surounding you
You only did what you needed to
And they did not approve
But you were just being you

You showed how you just couldnt be the same
and play out their plot lines
Like a pantomime Dame

So they pointed their fingers
And they blackened your name
And now they give you silence
Now aint that a shame

But I see the light.....

And they cant see the light thats surrounding you
Because they're blinded by the darkness
'Cos they're choosing to
And all this time you were sinning
In the eyes of fools
Because life is good when you're winning
Theres' no time for fools

And if you ever get yourself away from here
remove yourself from the madness
and dissapear
And if I ever have the balls to follow you
Release myself from the sadness
And the madness
I'll be following you

Just Being You (2008) remixed demo

Another daft song from my past...
The next track on this album is;
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/geometric-interludium-1991

A Hatchet Job

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Moonbird Fly (1991)

The Belly Eye

Pelicans Crossing (2017)

Rough 1st mix...

Listen with Mother

A drop of Mother's ruin
Sends my brain into overdrive

Mother's little helping hand
Bottled and sold across the land

Mother's little helper
Coddles' me and helps me thrive
A drop of Mother's ruin
Helps the soul really feel alive

Mother's little fighting juice
Helping Mother rule the roost

I should have listened to my Mum
Not done the things what I done
Listen with Mother, for she knows best

Listen With Mother (2017)

Half way through my latest album, not sure quite what this song is about, wrote the lyrics whilst I was a bit tipsy! Song needs another mix...
See a cheap vid for it here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUl2-a7LV-U

Welcome to the big time


i never what to be, a burden apon your soul
i could never be, as great as 'he'
i could never take that role

Crawling through the holes and the tunnels of your mind
Passages for Passengers
You never know what you might find


Chorus;
Welcome to the big time
the belly eye
Walk along the fine line
Time to meet the no-one
the belly eye
All our work is now done

we fall down the rabbit hole

I could bake for you, a steak and kidney pie
with all the trimmings of a Sunday roast
We'll satisfy the belly eye

We'll have a drink or two, and sing some lullabies
and now you're winning we'll confront your ghosts
because its time to wave 'em bye bye

Chorus

And that it must end
the curtain must now fall
and as you aplaud this underlying score
you'll see this freakshow is now flawed

And now your ghosts have gone, 
you've got them on the run
we can move on, ever closer
toward the end of the Sun

Chorus

Welcome to the Big Time (2017) 1st mix

Daft one from my early days....
Anther from the same album is;
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/help-in-space-1991

Space Fantastic (1990)

Another early attempt at pop
Full of destructive editing...
Another from this album is;
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/your-brain-is-still-safe-with

Hilarious (1993)

Humanoid

Caves (2019)

A tribute to my late Mother in Law, who passed away recently...

Nana (2019)

More stuff from the 90's, from a story called 'The Eyes'. The protagonist sees a vision of eyes looking at him from the future, and a voice warning him of the impending apocalypse....
The 1st track on this album is;
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/i-see-the-eyes-1998

The Eyes

The War That Comes (1998)

Some Orwellian Pop from the 90's salvaged from old 4-track. Its full of destructive editing with stuff all over the place....
Another track from this album is
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/monsters-1999

We are the Dead

Under the spreading Chestnut tree
I sold you, you sold me
There lie they, here lie we
Under the spreading Chestnut tree
Oranges and lemons said the bells of St. Clement's
You owe me three farthings said the bells of St Martins
Here is the candle to light you to bed
Here is the Chopper to chop off your head

Time has caught us, corrupted by thought-crime
Can they really get inside our heads?
We shall meet in the place of no darkness
Now that finally we are the dead

I was remembering my Mother, 
Before the rats and love of Big Brother
V for Victory over one's self
Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!
2+2=4, if that is granted then all else follows

Here is the candle to light you to bed
Here is the Chopper to chop off your head
Time has caught us, corrupted by thought-crime
Can they really get inside our heads?
We shall meet in the place of no darkness
Who'd be a politician corruption free and clean
They're just a suited tool at which to vent our spleen

Time has caught us, corrupted by thought-crime
Can they really get inside our heads?
We shall meet in the place of no darkness
Now that finally we are the dead

We Are the Dead (1999)

Purveyors of English Rock, Pop, Psychedelia and Various Other styles since the early 1990's...

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