I feel the days falling away
I know that you feel the same
All the years now on display
In between some light and shade

Midnight starlight
Music on the square
We used to be there
Running in the shadows
Rapping with the poets beats
We used to walk these streets

The echo of those days remain
In the corners where we used to play
Time slips through like rain
But we still find our way

Midnight starlight
Music on the square
We used to be there
Running in the shadows
Rapping with the poets beats
We used to walk these streets

Whispers of a brighter dawn
In the places where we once belonged

Midnight starlight
Music on the square
We used to be there
Running in the shadows
Rapping with the poets beats
We used to walk these streets

Streets


I was struck by an article in the Guardian 10 years ago about a woman who used to hang out and work with the Rolling Stones in the 60s and the article was about adapting to old age while having nostalgia for such a potent time in her life. For this recording I had to change one word - 70 to 80. Musically it needed to be rhythmic but melancholic: something you got from major and minor seventh songs in the mid 70s as disco kicked in



YESTERDAY’S PEOPLE

Yesterday’s people used to party, party, party
Yesterday’s people were so cool so cool so cool

There was a girl her skin so fresh and fine
There was a guy as smooth as a dark red wine
They were out there in a happening era
Face to face so close and nearer
Photogenic and oh so bold
But that generation has all grown old

In 69 it was crazy zany time
In London town all that music going down
Young people travelling - free love happening
Beautiful people philosophizing
Mary Jane twilight in the Mediterranean
That generation they’ve all grown old

If you’re talking to an 80 year old guy
Remember he - was Mr cool way back in time
Try to imagine the face much younger
The yearning soul hormonal hunger
Suite Judy blue eyes young people dancing
That generation they’ve all grown old


Yesterdays People

The Jersey streets are alive tonight
And the bridge is flooded with rain
The city’s coming through the windshield
And the wind howls like a train 

Headlights bounce off the gutters
And the girls on the boulevard
A siren closes the distance
And cuts off all the cars

The Red Bank rain hits me
Like a hammer from the sky
But the radio pulls me close 
Lays me out for another night 

The streets lay down so quietly
Like a promise left for dead
And the station’s fading fast
As the hours tick ahead

The screen door’s blowing open
And the headlights disappear
The DJ says the songs are coming
Like some turntable Paul Revere

The Red Bank rain hits me
Like a hammer from the sky
But the radio pulls me close
Lays me out for another night

Yeah, the Red Bank rain hits me
Like a hammer from the sky
But the radio pulls me close
Lays me out for another night

Red Bank In The Rain (with Joliz)

This is an old demo that Ive been sitting on for years and years... Theres so much more to it than what you hear here.. but I may never get to really complete it. Its part of a collection of music.. a project called " HeartBeat " a collection of tunes in either 3/4 or 6/8 ( the human heart beats in these times )

Lyrics:

Youre giving me reasons to play
youre giving me good thing to say
Youre changing my whole life today
and theres a couple thing I want to say
Its the sun on your face
its the wind in your hair
and when Im not a perfect man
its the way you dont care

youre giving me reasons to play
youre giving me good things to say
I think youre my best friend today
and theres a couple of things I want to say
your breath in my ear
and the words that Ill never find
and when im not a perfect man
its the way you dont mind..

Thanks for listening !

Reasons

A tale of two souls searching for the unknown “other" until they at last cross the same bridge (whether literal or figurative) and meet in one magical lifetime moment of divine providence. The glory of finding that special someone. Nat and I co-wrote this one.

Nat Daniels: vocals, piano, guitar loops, bass, percussion
Craig Durgy: vocals
All music written and performed by Daniels & Durgy
Produced by Nat Daniels of Gentle Rain Records ©2025

Lyrics: I Found My Angel by Daniels & Durgy

Daydreams sift throughout my thought
Memories drift so seldom caught
I wonder where, my love you are
 
Wandering through each day alone
You remain my love unknown
And I still wonder where you are

But as I search the growing dark, I see a light shine from afar
Shining surely in the night, glowing purely, growing bright

Like a magnet to a key
This light was ever drawing me
And with your halo you appeared
Gone was the darkness I had feared

That is when I fell in love with an angel
Oh, that’s when I fell in love with you

I am walking through a haze
Blindly searching in a maze
I wonder where, my love, you are

Losing hope there’ll ever be
Someone, somewhere just for me
But I still wonder where you are

A millions stars up in the sky, so very far, so very high
Then like a comet through the dark, there’s a glimmer, there’s a spark

As I stand here, as I breathe
Heaven led you here for me
At last, the bridge that leads me to
The other side, to be with you

That is when I fell in love with an angel
Oh, that’s when I fell in love with you

I Found My Angel

"A mother's love is like no other love on earth" 🌹❤️

Mix & Mastering by @amin-pishehvar 🙏

original release 2018

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A Mother's Embrace

Doctor Who is a long running British science fiction TV series aired on the BBC since 1963. The period I watched was during the 80's (the best cast version of the 'Doctor' in my opinion!). My favourite part of the show was always the amazing and easily recognizable theme music, written by Ron Grainer. The opening theme has gone through various updates over the years, but when it first came out it was one of the first TV themes to use electronic music, and is regarded as a pretty innovative piece of electronic music recorded well before synthesizers or multitrack mixers became widely used. The story of how it was recorded is a quite fascinating. There's a great documentary about Delia Derbyshire, the woman who created much of the sounds in the original theme in BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, using recordings of found objects, cutting and manipulating tape by hand to create the 'electronic' sounds you hear in the music. She never got writing credit but should have. 
Here's a link to the documentary:

The Delian Mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXnmSgaeGAI 

This is a cover that focuses mostly on the original theme, but blends in a few elements of the more recent variations. I also added a second more atmospheric 'epilogue' section, that includes a sample of dialogue from one of the show's episodes. 

I've wanted to try playing this theme forever, and had some fun tinkering on my synthesizer to get the sounds as close as possible, especially that main ghostly synth melody. 
If you've heard it before this might bring back memories! Thanks for listening. 

- 'Doctor Who' theme written by Ron Grainer (& realized by Delia Derbyshire)
- vocal sample from the episode "Rose", 2005 season, episode 1
- Image art designed using Dall-E

'Doctor Who' TV Theme (cover + epilogue)

(Dragging My Butt) Into The Sunshine

She should have left that damn bird alone

Mama Saw A Bird

The Beautiful Dark's Open Collab with Llanpsych guitars and mix
Catch the collab offer here
https://on.soundcloud.com/xTKmoK5ZNhk5nzkGD4

Thankful Treasures - with The Beautiful Dark

He knows who he is 
He knows what he did 

He’s a snake he likes to fake his way through life 
I’ll be the bait but I could never be your wife 
And oh everybody’s talking ‘bout us 
It’s so embarrassing to sneak around us 

But there’s no us without me 
And there’s no clarity 
No there’s no us without you 
And there’s no us without two 
I barely made my way out of this one 
I rarely like to speak on how it all came undone 

Revolting 
Controlling
Demoting 
Freeloading

Revolted 
Demoted 
Free loaded 
He 

He’ll eat the cake if he watched you bake it 
Then he’ll say that he could have made a better one 
He’s a saint in his own minds eye become 
Become better for me I’ll be better for you 
He wants princess treatment so few make it out 
But look at what had to be done 
I’m left with no one

But there’s no us without me 
And there’s no clarity 
No there’s no us without you 
And there’s no us without two
I barely made my way out of this one 
I rarely like to speak on how it all came undone 

Revolting
Controlling 
Demoting 
Freeloading 

Revolted
Demoted 
Freeloaded 
He

He he he knows what he did 
He he he knows who he is 
He he he sees through his own act 
He he thinks I’m gonna take him back 

Revolting 
Controlling 
Demoting 
Freeloading 

Revolted 
Demoted 
Freeloaded 
He 
He he
He he he

He (Demo)

Music lover & singer-songwriter. Many thanks for taking the time to listen.

Unless noted, all songs Copyright © Robert S. Dean.