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Written 2002

Why go beyond this face 
To no longer replace and only embrace this soul
It kinda likes it…
You’ll find it might fit...

You can’t grow while running from this
Down clenching your fist,
Your hot head is too mystical
Look for the light switch
Turn on your life with it

Light up the other side
Light up the other side
I wonder when your rem you really find your six feet ten
I wonder
Your walking thunder
So bright eyed
You ponder why
Every inch of you really touches the sky
There’s no need to wonder when your rem
There really are no limits man
I’m under your walking thunder

I know to look to this place
Search every last little trace
Find why all’s interlaced with the cold
Look for the light switch
Turn on your life with it.


Light up the other side
Light up the other side
I wonder when your rem you really find your six feet ten
I wonder
Your walking thunder
So bright eyed
You ponder why
Every inch of you really touches the sky
There’s no need to wonder when your rem
there really are no limits man
I’m under your walking thunder

📜The Other Side

Written 2014

This song explorers the scourge of racism on Earth. Different amounts of melanin in our skin is really the only difference! So this 'lights a torch' for the 'other shades, the hues'. People of different colour skin! We're all the furking same. The Magic slur is when Magic Johnston had to deal with a biggited NBA team owner. the good Dani let's eat... Dani Alves picked up and ate a banana that was thrown from the stands. the racist gesture is meant to suggest some humans were monkeys on the pitch. Dani Alves stood up and was counted for that moment.

apparently the amount of melanin changes Iver time in our skin depending how long our decendants have stayed in those locales with different amounts of light getting there. That's it! apart from that we all shit piss and whine

A magic slur,
This  biggot must go!
It seems he don’t like ‘em too dark,
All monkeys roam free.
The Sun, relatively!
In this mercury mould a banana thrown.
It seems these don’t like em too dark,
Good Dani, Let’s eat!
All colours seep just melanin skin deep.
All colours leak just melanin
Why oh why do you take just your side
Won’t you learn that you’re no different.
Living with how the past framed their thinking…
Why oh why? Won’t you learn?

Let it rain
Pave the way
With Luther light
We learn tonight
You want the truth.
If this sits loose with you.
Oh what to tell our youth…
Here’s a clue!
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for the force
All of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for the force
For all of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for ‘the force’
All of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…

	“Sweet land of liberty at thee I say…”

Let freedom reign
I'm on my father's side
Let freedom reign
This land is for the children's pride
Let freedom reign
I'm on my father's side
Let freedom reign
This land is for the children's pride

Horns by Simon Culliton

📜Scribe

LIKTKX

NEVER CRY.

Arise for tomorrow (Whisper)

The illusions that a hit song will cure all romance problems, especially if you hire Nashville Keith Urban in your band?

RANG-A-DANG

see you there debut single was recorded in 2024 august however it took a year to release. This pop song talks about a long distance relationship how we miss those we love when they are far away and yearning to hold them .

See You There

Radiant Raindrops Decay

Another blast from This Elegant Chaos this track was the first single from our second album Magino Line. 
Tells the tale of a  Kaleidoscope relationship that was to dangerous  but some things you just cant get enough of !

A brief history about the band.
The band were formed  in 1997 by Simon Bayliss and myself .
Simon a bassist and me a vocalist we had a handful of songs that needed a band of seasoned musicians to bring them alive. I recruited former band members of previous projects Lee Hughes & Rob Adams (guitarists) and Dave Robins (drums). 
Within months the band were recording and playing live with several labels showing an interest. 
Our first deal was with Holier than Thou Records but we left without releasing anything due to financial reasons. 
Our first release was a  7 Track 
EP “Hello Thane” on Quicksilver Records, quickly followed by our  debut album Virtue Circle released on Underground label Music & Elsewhere, which became a best seller for the  label. 
The album was then remastered and re-released back on Quicksilver Records in cd format, re-intitled “Virtue Circle Revisted”, M&E dealing with distribution.
Probably the best work to date was the final album Magino Line also released on Quicksilver Records. Unfortunately Simon had to leave before the second album due to work commitments with Artist Naomi of Gut Records. This lead to ‘Sarge’ Mark Sargent taking over bass duties. 
This Elegant Chaos bowed out in 2001 after the previous years sell out gig at Ronnie Scott’s. It was a wonderful time to be in a band with such talented musicians. 
Early 2020 we were released again on Music & Elsewhere to celebrate the labels 30th anniversary. This was a collection of the labels favourite songs in a download format.
This Elegant Chaos gives you ……
Kaleidoscope Spiral

Kaleidoscope Spiral -This Elegant Chaos

This little life don't come to much
I'm not a Rockefeller as such
I only want to love and to be loved
And I'm charmed by you

What would I even say to you if ever
I could string a couple words together
I got a tender heart but a tongue of leather
And I'm charmed by you
I'm charmed by you

The night is dark and bitter cold
I'm looking for something I can hold to
Then lightening striking through my soul.

I tell a lie I say it's true
I can't complain yet still I do
It takes a full force trauma just for me to get through
I'm charmed by you

I'm an empty bottle I'm an empty vessel 
I seen it all and it ain't that special
Until the day I get to the threshold
I'm charmed by you
I'm charmed by you

In the darkness here tonight
I'm looking forward a spark to light up
When out of nothing here comes something

This little life don't come to much
I'm not a Rockefeller as such
I only want to love and to be loved
And I'm charmed by you
I'm charmed by you.

Charmed By You

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Ode To The Captain At Sunset // Green Nova Mix

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lyrics written by fictionalive

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music is the track 'green nova' written, arranged, mixed, produced and provided by courtesy of the void patches @voidpatches

void patches reflecting roots - by modulprinzip @modulprinzip - big shout-out!

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vocal production, arrangement, final mix and production by fictionalive

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this is a long overdue remix or alternate take of the original drop
Ode to the Captain at Sunset // Bahnwärter Thiel auf hoher See
https://soundcloud.com/fictionalive/ode-to-the-captain-at-sunset-behind-the-bahnwarters-back-mix?si=108a45d3bb14423baeb9e674b94f5f22&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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artwork photography, image editing by fictionalive

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fusion of it all -
fictionalive with the popoems series and the hyper media reports

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3 am central european time
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Ode To The Captain At Sunset // Green Nova Mix

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Why the AI Race? Truth As A Luxury // a That's Bizzare Take

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lyrics written and narration provided by fictionalive

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music felt, written, arranged, played, mix, produced, and provided by courtesy of That's Bizzare

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additional vocal arrangement, mix plus effects, fills, arrangements, and production by That's Bizzare @that-bizzare - alla grande, sempre

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original single drop by fictionalive
https://soundcloud.com/fictionalive/why-the-ai-race-truth-as-a?si=5ff3a0fd5f9a46d5b1413abc41b325b3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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tune in for the original series and album here -
About AI and Us - Beyond Your Song // Why The AI Race: 7 tracks or more
https://soundcloud.com/fictionalive/sets/why-the-ai-race-about-ai-and-us-the-album
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tune in for the alternate album take so fare here -
https://soundcloud.com/fictionalive/sets/why-the-ai-race-about-ai-and-alternate-album-take-thats-bizzare

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artwork illustration by and courtesy of peter uertz, düsseldorf / germany

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fusion of it all -
fictionalive with the popoems series and the hyper media reports

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7 pm central european time zone
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Why the AI Race? Truth As A Luxury // a That's Bizzare Take

frentheln_02

The photo used in this tune is my actual wall in an old apartment I lived in. I had started fully using hard drives so ze CDs went on the wall in the shape of a head with a line of them also making a wave through it... Awww miss the old physical albums but sure we're spoiled now with detail



Written 2015

Colour me in
Fill in your own meaning
Welcome the world after the wonderful you
As you’re winding your time
And fine tuning your chime
You’ll be binding those binds 
And finding life’s fine.

Covered in sin
I let the werewolf win.
This strenght straddles the world
No further fools.

As your winding your time
And fine tuning your chime
Who’ll be binding those binds 
And finding life’s fine.

Colour me in.
Colour your sin
Two minutes tamed time
Now the fear is thin

📜Fill

Written 2015

The shivers in this song refer to the rush of a feeling you get through your back and body when some idea or someone has inspired you. A flow of nerve energy I suppose. I associate relating these feelings to reading shaman texts in my late teens and early twenties and when I was first going.... What the fuck is that? Those words gave a solid answer back then for me 🌿🌎

When the world wakes up from fear I believe we will revisit all these old cultures ways of life and truly embrace the truths we may have missed. There was possibly a less insular approach to imaging their own existence back then. Found, inside each of us and discovered in maybe a simplicity muted by the noise of the modern world.

Lyrics

Some shiver should sharpen this world.
We’re putting shape to the shamans soul 
Aligning old paradiso
These inner movements in you

Each shiver comes raising your game
Fruit truths trapeez to being again
They  align what the sorcerer say
Shiver inner movements in me

Hold me close
That me is you
An inner party of proofs
Yearning for your truce

Let me know
Of your fears or your foe
Gotta talk to that soul
Shiver inner movements in all

The shaman shiver
Gifts your shine deliver
Emotive river
Feel the shaman shiver
The spirits spine
Good quiver
Ease wisdom hither

The Shaman Shiver

This is my bro's favourite song of mine. He's my best friend


We're keeping it real...
Where could we go?
I know!
I can only be me
You can only be you
For each just one vision
Their life long live tv
Be gone superstition
Truth to keep this life real

Ahh oh
Ohhh oh
Ahh oh
Ohhh ohhhhhh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah haha oh

If your highest values are still Romes imagined lies
Then your God is a lie
They have these mind diets and false beliefs
To control the eyes of the weak

But this is modern life
And we have real visionaries
Who gobble up ologies
The passed soul
Philosophise be a plato
The truth in time answers infinitly
This evolutionary rhyme where hope springs discovery
The perfect solutions
Intellect to all sentient beings
The final freedom of our inner liberty
Some day they’ll realise how the truth can free
Some soldered light born in string theory
The strings of you and all the beauty bowed all through

Ahh oh
Ohhh oh
Ahh oh
Ohhh ohhhhhh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah haha oh

We're keeping it real

Keep It Real

Howdy,

Welcome to TBD.

All these creations are made by hard work and years upon years upon years of practice and trying to explain this world and the human condition to myself in the process through poems & songs.

Thanks for all of your wonderful support.

Peace and Love to Everyone,

Carl Culliton



What playing music does to your brain

https://youtu.be/R0JKCYZ8hng?si=KJt33NWjUo63ieAm



A nice David Bowie Interview here:

https://youtu.be/JRtZc_Nmo5w?si=1g1Wag87NdEumAc4

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