Marie Dahlstrom - 'What's it gonna be' -(Tom Bem Remix)

Here you hear my remix of Dexter Britain's 'The Stars Are Out'.

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Captain

Captain - Tom Bem (Dexter Britain Reinvention)

Track 5 of 5 in the EP 'Shallows'. A concept album of love, betrayal and heartbreak.
Complete resignation. You've tried hating, you've tried forgetting. It's not possible. The only way to move on for your own emotional well being is not by trying to forget, but by forgiving.
"I can't forget, so ill forgive you instead."

Shallows
Written, produced and performed by Tom Bem, 
Co-Written and Co-Produced by Dexter Britain
Copyright 2013

I was the captain, blind to the mutiny
and for so long I've been haunted by the echoes of your love.
A marathon of resent, I'm exhausted by regret.
I've wished so hard to forget you, and start afresh.

My eyes which were only for you,
have looked for the new, but my minds hooked on the truth
Ive become addicted
to dwelling over why it's me who's afflicted
and you who inflicted.

I'm breaking down these wall that keep me treading these shallows
It's time to end this war in my head
I can't forget, so I'll forgive you instead
I can't forget you.
I've tread these shallows, shallows,
I've tread these shallows for far too long.

Stop me drowning.

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Shallows

Track 2 of 5 in the EP 'Shallows'. A concept album of love, betrayal and heartbreak.
Intense anxiety caused by paranoia. Not knowing the truth, not understanding what is happening in the breakdown of this love. There is a chaos in your mind. Is there someone else? Yes.
"There is a chaos in my mind, a riot deep inside caused by you, now that i know the truth."

Someone Else
Written, produced and performed by Tom Bem, 
Copyright 2013

There's this pain I cant explain
which only grows, don't go away,
the shame in your eyes is to blame.
I never thought I'd see from now 
until infinity that our demise would be this way.
Oh I feel, it's a dream It's not real,
this is something I can't deal with.
Theres a chaos in my mind, a riot deep inside caused by you,
so tell me it's not true.

There's someone else, who's taking all your love.

Well haven't I been fooled, I've been used and I've been taught,
that no matter how hard I love, there's no-one I can trust.
There's a permanent void, now that I've been left no choice,
this is something I can't deal with.
There's a chaos in my mind, a riot deep inside caused by you. 
Now that I know the truth.

There's someone else, who's taking all your love.

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Someone Else

Track 4 of 5 in the EP 'Shallows'. A concept album of love, betrayal and heartbreak.
Exhausted by the hate that has consumed you and the sadness that fills you. Everywhere you turn you see her face. Her memory haunts your every living moment. It's time to out-run this ghost. It will take time, it will be a marathon.
"If time is the healer, I am so sick of wishing my life away."

Marathon
Written, produced and performed by Tom Bem 
Copyright 2013

It's a waiting game,
how long till I find I'm safe again?
If it's time that heals then I am so sick wishing my life away.
It's a poltergeist, in my mind that haunts my nights.
Not the type in sheets of white but a little tort feeling that I can't fight.

Its a marathon, and I'm running from you and your ghost that haunts everything I do.
I hope, I hope you know that I'll be fine. This time gonna run and not just hide.
Cos tonight I'm gonna outrun your ghost,
and these feelings that I hate the most,
exorcise these demons in my mind, and free myself tonight.

It's a purpose built
infected memory that keeps me ill
If you're the artist
the masterpiece is how I feel.
Well I'll keep running, a little out of breath but there's no stopping
till you chase and seek for me, just to find that you'll never catch me.

I keep on running.

Marathon

Track 1 of 5 in the EP 'Shallows'. A concept album of love, betrayal and heartbreak.
Something is not right in your relationship. You choose to ignore your intuitions, afraid of what you will find. You stay loving them blindly.

Captain
Written, produced and performed by Tom Bem, 
Co-Written and Co-Produced by Dexter Britain
Copyright 2013

All eyes on me,
everybody is waiting to see how
I am going to deal with you now.
You're the poison,
infecting my brain telling me 'it's okay,
time to move on, theres nothing to see here.'
I keep denying what i know is true.
I keep on forcing myself to stay in love with you.
I keep Ignoring it so i fail to see,
you're the cancer in my heart and you're killing me.

Oh I'm, I'm blindly loving you.

Oh, I've stalled
caught between what I know and how I feel,
I think it's time that I should move on.
Cos you're the poison,
keeping my sight from me keeping me blind, 
blinded by love, hopelessly lost to you.

I keep on loving you, loving you blindly.

Blind

Often when pursuing a love interest, there can be times of hot and cold behaviour or ‘love games’. Hide and Seek outlines the struggle of trying to understand why a new love interest can be interested one minute and not interested the next. It's metaphorically likened to the playground game ‘hide and seek’. The second verse has a French Christian prayer to the patron saint of lost things Saint Antoine, which asks to help find the love that has been lost.

Day one I was dazed by you
Caught off guard and made a game by you
I'm afraid that I can only lose
But somehow I still wanna play around with you

I've fallen, I know it
Can't help but show it
Feels like I need it
Wonder if she sees it, if there's
One thing I've learnt, it's that
I never learn, cos I
still seek and yearn, for the
things that always hurt, so I
Close my eyes, count to 10 and she's gone again
Disappeared she's like magic, was it all pretend?
I see you, do you see me too?

Don't you know, don't you know what I want?
Don't you know, don't you know what I need?
Hide and Seek. You're playing Hide and Seek with me.

Running round in circles,
Jumping all her hurdles,
She's hiding in the shadows,
Now I'm afraid of darkness.
Ready or not, here I come and I'm chasing hard,
When I find you Im gonna keep you right by my side. 
Antoine De Padou, toi qui es si bon et si doux
Aidez moi a trouver l'amour que j'ai perdu.



Close my eyes, count to 10 and she's gone again
Disappeared she's like magic, and I'm tricked again.
I see you, do you see me too?  

Don't you know, don't you know what I want?
Don't you know, don't you know what I need?
Hide and Seek. You're playing Hide and Seek with me.

I can see that you've been thinking bout hiding again
Just to protect yourself, well let me tell you what you'll find girl...
That you're wrong girl, that you're lost girl.
You should allow to let me find you again.


Hide & Seek

Dexter Britain and WLF KRY team up to remix Tom Bem's 'Hide & Seek', from EP 'Beast Side' out August 5th. 

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Hide & Seek -  WLF KRY / Dexter Britain (remix)

EP artwork by Nick Byrne
http://www.nickbyrnedesign.co.uk

Lyrics
She's frustrated, I'm impatient 
We're too eager to be waiting 
If I'm a race then she's a false start
If she's a prize my eyes are fixed hard
If she's a sin then I'm a synonym 
Cus we're the same just in different skin 
I'm a beast that can't be tamed 
And I invite you to my cage 

To get Numb Numb Numb I want you to get numb now numb now
Won't you come come come come and get some numb now numb now

Don't you want it
Won't you bring your body, I won't tell anybody no
Cos we can have fun, I'll make you feel so numb
I've been waiting so long, to get you all alone 
Pull you in closer never let you go 
Cos I still want it 
Are you feeling numb? Cos I'm feeling numb 

Sweet kisses between coacoa 
Longing stares between a haze of smoke
I know you want it and I want it too 
I've drawn you in and now I'll cage you

Let's live in the moment
Give into your beast side 
No I won't hold it
I've already given into mine

But tiger growls will warn you about what's to come 
You're short of breath cos you know next is that you'll feel the Numb

Numb

EP artwork by Nick Byrne
http://www.nickbyrnedesign.co.uk

Lyrics
Who do you think you are to keep me always waiting?
Summers long gone, winter is so far and the memories are all fading.
Late, I'm always late, but I'm first to say that
"maybe someday, you'll come back to me..."

Well, that's what I'm hoping
but hope is a funny thing
cos from one day to the next
hope can ruin everything
when someone hopes too much
and the other not enough 
then hope will turn to hurt
and force you both apart.
Your my switch....

I'm like a bear and you're my honey, oh so sweet.
With just one taste, you're all i want to eat.
But i get the feeling that ill never get that taste once more
still sweet for sure, but not mine no more.

Switch blade, ill keep you in my pocket for a rainy day
but you cut deep inside. I guess I never learnt not to play with knives.
I wanna rebound.

Who do I go to, to voice my views if it's not you?
Im so confused when my heart says you but my head says..
"Rebound, rebound, rebound."
I'd never say, 'never babe', then walk away and move on and change,
cos you say you know when you can't know,
and as long as you can't know then i won't let go. 

I know now where I stand, but damn its mighty tricky when you got these sticky hands. 
She's what i want, but what i can't have. Im her strung along toy, just a backup plan.
Although its just not right that we had to fight, maybe it might help us out and make this finite. Oh I, refuse to be a worker bee, with its honey that it makes but can never eat.
She's still my spilt milk ready for a re-fill.
She's still my switch blade, stances for a quick kill. 
See this noose around my neck, its getting tighter.
Im standing on my tippy toes, so lift me a little higher and
cut me loose cut me loose cut me loose now,
cut loose unless you wanna keep me tied down
so cut me loose cut me loose cut me loose now,
switch blade, cut the chase so i can rebound. 

Rebound

Featuring production from Dexter Britain. 
@dexterbritain
http://www.dexterbritain.com

EP artwork by Nick Byrne
http://www.nickbyrnedesign.co.uk

Lyrics
Lone soldier, cold eyes
no sight, for love of any kind.
Call me veteran of war
cos I've learnt - be stronger than before.
But whatever doesn't kill you, will only make you wish it had.

Kalashnikov 
she lines them up lines them up to
shoot them down leave them there when she's through
and i know what I'm running from now
bang bang from the barrel of kalashnikov
and even though i come in peace, bullets rain down on me.

bullet proof chest, cos I'm cynically set to ignore the interest
of love at any depth, but from one day to the next i let my guard down
and i get hit. The bullet fits. And now Im sick.
Ive been infected by her shot and I can't ignore it.
She's pierced my heart, and thats how it starts, I'm in love with my very own Kalashnikov. 

I didn't come here for war. My hands raised, my  heart sore.
White flag but you still go off.
I can't even describe this, but I'm not willing to fight it.
I surrender Kalashnikov.
I'm in her firing line. Her target set in sight. No running from the firing squad as she rains down on me tonight. 

Kalashnikov

EP artwork by Nick Byrne
http://www.nickbyrnedesign.co.uk

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lyrics
Lying next to you, i feel on top of the world.
Oh I'm second to none now.
But you whisper in my ear "its our little secret dear".
Will that make it more fun for you?
But you say its cos you're taken by a guy that treats you right.
Well why aren't you with him tonight then?
You say that you'll play these games with me on the side, as long as we keep it quiet...
But I'm down with monogamy, so this don't feel right to me.
But she's not worried about it.

"What he don't know, won't hurt him, won't kill him."

Don't you feel guilty? no. Is it only me?
Well i think you are heartless, and i can't be a part of it when she says...
"Lay me down again, I've been craving you. Theres nothing to lose when we can hide the truth. So come on now, chose to me do all the things that i want to you."
Well she said, that she'll play these games with me on the side, as long as we keep this quiet. But I'm no side boy. 



WHDK Ft. Effie

Track 4 of Bête Noire. 
A song about feeling manipulated and controlled by someone who ultimately breaks your heart. You don't want to hear about their disloyalty, but you just have to know. 
Find strength and have your revenge.

Origami

Front row seat, your racing heart beat. You're so close, you don't want to miss a thing. But what you don't know, its never time to go. Curtains up, and you're the leading role. 

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Your steep profits reflect in your shallow relationships. Its time to open your eyes, or consume, be silent and die. Whats worth living for, if you're not living?

Consume, Be Silent, Die

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