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The Movies - PYX

This dream is short
This dream is happy 
A life on screen
A person in pictures

You live for yourself
You live with your memories 
It happened to me
It happened to you

It happened in Paris
It happened in New York
The kiss of the panther
The web of the spider

If you make it out 
Remember me as I am right now
A life on screen
A person in pictures

The reason of the heart
The treason of the heart
It’s you I remember 
By day and by night
It’s you I remember 
You’re just like a melody

If you make it out 
Remember me as I am right now
A life on screen
A person in pictures

I’m so obsessed and your so depressed 
But this is just a dream
A life on screen
A person in pictures
A life on screen
A person in pictures

This dream is short
This dream is happy 
A life on screen
A person in pictures

The Movies

thank u to josh for the cover art,
more tapes this year

SKETCHES.1

Extended the old Danny track from The Chickening.

COME PLAY WITH US DANNY - EXTENDED MIXXX

Half The Man

Lyrics:

Is this what you want?
I don't know what I want, 
I don't know what I need
Is this what you need?
I don't know what I need,
I don't see what you mean

There's blood in the snow and blood on my hands
What if you're right and they're all wrong?
The washing machine is broken again
You make your own wins, commit your own sins
And it all comes down to this: 
You've spent your whole life thinking there are rules

Is this what you want?
I don't know what I want, 
I don't know what I need
Is this what you need?
I don't know what I need,
I don't see what you mean

I don't see what you mean
What you mean

What if you're right and they're all wrong?
The washing machine is broken again
You make your own wins, commit your own sins
And it all comes down to this: 
You've spent your whole life thinking there are rules
A kick in the head, where's your sense?
And you call yourself a man
You take what you get, it's a red tide
And this life will pass you by
Oh this life will wash you away

Is this what you want?
I don't know what I want, 
I don't know what I need
Is this what you need?
I don't know what I need,
I don't see what you mean

Is This What You Want?

Tom Shawcroft performing "figure out" - available everywhere now: http://smarturl.it/figure-out
 
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lyrics:
i know that i'm the one to make you feel complete
amongst some other things you fully comfort me
sometimes, i fantasise how you feel bout me
when i come alive
cause i failed to figure out 
that kind of love to fall for 
i somehow fell for a coldhearted kind of love
it was the kind to mess me up but i’ll be singing
sun's out but it's still so cold clear skies but it's been so long
since i remembered how to love myself again
so i called my friend to tell her now "it's been so long"
and i worry how we'll drift off away
my love, you're so hard to love
in years to come you'll learn to trust
so woe is me, i hope you're coming back to me in time
and i'll start feel alright
all you know, you're the one to make me feel complete
amongst some other things you finally found my feelings
buried deep inside a cage, you finally found the key
now i'm so alive
so when you're coming back, oh, i'll be all alone
waiting for you to show me how to feel at home
and i’ll leave my pride out by the door so you can see my heart, 
my all and my flaws, but i’ll be singing
sun's out but it's still so cold clear skies but it's been so long
since i remembered how to love myself again
so i called my friend to tell her now "it's been so long"
and i worry how we'll drift off away
my love, you're so hard to love
in years to come you'll learn to trust
so woe is me, i hope you're coming back to me in time
and i'll start feel alright

#TomShawcroft #figureout

© 2020 Tom Shawcroft.

figure out

Written by David Hoade -
Performed by David Hoade and Nina Johnson -
Produced by Ivan Anchant -
With much love and gratitude -
Dedicated to my dear Mum

Never Be The Same

Addicted

From Anglo-Irish married songwriting duo The Portraits (“Irresistible and Irrepressible!” Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music) comes an uplifting and timely new single, featuring an astonishing cast of musicians and friends singing and playing their hearts out from Coronavirus confinement in their bedrooms, living rooms and gardens with a simple and beautiful musical message of reassurance: ‘Don’t Worry’.

The powerful orchestral and choral ensemble joined forces through the power of the internet: a full score and guide track was transmitted to all the players via Dropbox, and thirty individual performances in twenty-five different self-isolated locations including bedrooms, living rooms and gardens from the South West of England to North America via France, were returned digitally within three days. It was then left to The Portraits’ arranger and producer Jeremy Millington to unite all the recordings in his home studio to form the final epic work.

The Portraits’ songwriters Lorraine and Jeremy Millington say “the song is only as good as it is because everyone threw themselves at it so wholeheartedly. Not one performance is lacking in spirit, style or belief: maybe that shows just how keen we all are to send the world a giant and heartfelt hug right now. We dedicate it to all who are toiling tirelessly each and every day to fight this terrible disease around the world, and to all those loved ones it has taken from us.”

The song will be released on May 1st 2020 on iTunes, Spotify and all popular digital platforms. The Portraits are married Somerset-based songwriters Lorraine and Jeremy Millington who have performed at six Glastonbury Festivals and been championed on BBC Radio 2. They were due to perform at Glastonbury Festival again in 2020, now postponed to 2021.

Don't Worry

Produced by JB Pilon at Buffalo Studios, London.
Mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering, Los Angeles.

Available 23rd April 2020.

The Kecks - Modern Girls (Official Audio)

All Beats in this EP are made by @187Beats.
Little EP I put together while in lockdown. 
Enjoy

Royal Loyalty Ft Rowan Tuff & Kairos Laferme

Music - Granny's Boots (Miroslavas Frank & Julija Davi)
Record producing, mixing & mastering - Serge Grey-Savčenko

LYRICS:
Eenie meenie miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers, let him go, eenie meenie miney moe
Eenie meenie miney moe, I feel like a square peg in a round hole
If it fits I swear I'd pay fifty dollars every day

We have been taught that every dog will have its' day
We play the game, roll up the sleeves to catch the prey
We want control and set huge goals to see them fail
And our life turns on a dime

Eenie meenie miney moe, living in a goldfish bowl
All you do and all you say is reported day by day
Eenie meenie miney moe always going with the flow
Walking on a tippie toes, what a dog and pony show

We have been taught that every dog will have its' day
We play the game, roll up the sleeves to catch the prey
We want control and set huge goals to see them fail
And our life turns on a dime

Granny's Boots - Eenie Meenie Miney Moe

Spotify

Let Your Love Decide

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Is This What You Want?

PYX

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