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Haunting Acoustic Guitar song about being willfully taken onto the threshold of the unseen, the unknown dimension that exists all around us. Built on simplicity, yet eerie.

Children Of The Matrix

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On The Threshold Of The Unseen

Malice

The Joker (demo) by Dark Company.
Album: Signmaker
Bonus track!

THE JOKER
I look out from this scratched and faded view
Makeshift repairs instead of getting new
Don’t you ever get tired of tracing all the wires
Knowing that the switches won’t switch for you?

I work at the job that’s easiest, you see
Paying rent instead of living free
Don’t you wanna be bad instead of just being sad
Finding out you can be you instead of me?

The Joker he stares proudly at the wall
He can be who he wants to be
But he don’t wanna ‘be’ at all
He’s an empty Harlequin
With colours growing dim
And he struts about inside his little world

I keep up with the latest lines of talk
So I can ride instead of having to walk
Don’t you like the fashions that gotta little passion?
Being daring takes an extra bit of thought

I sleep with one eye fixed upon the clock
Waiting for the Reaper’s ghostly knock
Don’t you keep the days checking which ones can stay
Using them for your story’s clever plot?

The Joker he stares proudly at the wall
He can be who he wants to be
But he don’t wanna ‘be’ at all
He’s an empty Harlequin
With colours growing dim
And he struts about inside his little world

★

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/B. Ballard/S. Malpas.

Performers:
Peter Greatorex – vocals
George Davies – guitar, bass
Simon Malpas – trumpet
Ben Ballard – drums 

Recorded, mixed and produced by George Davies at Silent Running Studios Exeter, Autumn 1991.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios 2010.

Originally released March 1992.
First re-release June 2000.
Second re-release 16th December 2010.

Cover Art:
Bite Me! by Peter Greatorex

Copyright ℗ 1989 Pig Pen Music.
Copyright © 2010 Wud Records.

Fun Facts:
* This song is very closely related to Armed & Dangerous as they both share the same tune in the verses.
* George considered this tune-sharing conundrum a challenge and set about making this song and Armed & Dangerous appear to not be all that similar after all.
* The tempo is 138BPM and the key is B minor.
* George composed and recorded a demo of the guitar part whilst looking through Pete's lyric book during a marathon 72-hour session of studio work.
* Ben recorded the drums at the same time as George’s guide guitar track, which was played on the Ice Maiden plugged straight into the mixing desk.
* George was attempting to give directions to Ben throughout their performance.
* When Pete laid down a guide vocal track, Simon was rehearsing his trumpet parts in the background.
* If you listen carefully, you can hear little snatches of his horn being picked up by the vocal mic.
* Some of it is rather wonderful.
* George then added a guide bass track on the Plank, which in those days was tuned as a standard bass guitar.
* The bassline was unplanned until its recording, and has since become a main feature of the song.
* There is a touch too much trigger flange across the cymbals and liberal amounts of delays from the Alesis Quadraverb in this rather fun and dubby mix.
* Even the click track makes a tastefully calculated occasional appearance!
* It is not certain why this recording of The Joker was never finished.
* We felt that it has a curious merit all of its own, despite a few musical blunders.
* This demo version of The Joker was first included on the Signmaker album for its first re-release, in March 1992.
* There is a subsequent version of The Joker by Dark Company on their Alien Heat album.
* When Pete became too ill to perform in 1994, his replacement Andy would sometimes sing different and rather comical lyrics.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/signmaker/the-joker
https://soundcloud.com/wud-records/dark-company-the-joker?in=wud-records/sets/dark-company-alien-heat
https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Signmaker

The Joker (demo)

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Dark Company: The Joker (demo)

This piece, number 24, started off inspired by Black Heart Procession, but then traveled through Gravenhurst and latter day Nick Cave. Once again, it's a bit dark.
Becca Allen joined in on backing vocals and autoharp.

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That's the Message

A new day at the edge of the world ft Thin Lizzie and TTM

003 Caught In The Act

Music by Kenny Dyer
Vocals by TTM

Check out TTM's amazing music at www.soundcloud.com/tyrone-the-man

Check out his other page J5 Also www.soundcloud.com/dj-j5-638931123

Collaborations

American Freak Show (TTM Collaboration)

another fun collab with The Turtle Project check him out here:
https://soundcloud.com/turtle-project/tracks

(Turtle)
Life's just thrown a curve ball at me 
The day started off a little bit crappy
But I think it might just turn out to be a happy day today
Life's just thrown a curve ball at me 
The day started off a little bit crappy
But I see a little glimmer of hope 
There's a chance it could go my way

(TTM)
I see your days are numbered here
as we try and make it work in here
you keep on banging on your head
pain is over running head

the season is for making fear
of all the things we used to hear
but now it's time for laying bare
the things for which we used to care

Curve Ball Ft The Turtle Project & TTM

This is dedicated to someone who broke many hearts by her giving in to drugs and prostitution.
Lyrics:
You want to run away to see the world, for no reason
You're trapped inside the that body, of hopeless treason
You're burning all the life you've got, it's silly season
Your son is watching you get hurt, all those lesions

You come from twisted seeds x3

It seems you want a war with your body
It seems you want a war with your mind
you tearing up your heart with your madness
you burning up your life with your sadness

You've broken your heart and mind for no reason
You think you've gotten hard but it's pointless
You sitting there getting high for no reason
But now you have to face your demons

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Twisted seeds

A collab which stems from a track by TTM -https://soundcloud.com/tyrone-the-man
Added vocals by myself and Karnevor - https://soundcloud.com/karnevor

Control - with TTM and Karnevor

Lyrics:
I heard you crying in the rain
like a babe without it's maid
you keep on trying to get home
but there's a path that leads to Maine

you broke your heart but then you swore
to love the calmness in your mind
I tried to help you see my name
but then the tears streamed through your eyes

you say you want to save the world again
but you made your bed and now it's in a loop
you called my name at all times of the night
and I called out for you to set things right

You send for me when all your options are dry
you send for me when you have nowhere to hide
you track me down by your pitiful cry
and I respond to you but have to ask why

Send for me

Music video just released 26/10/18: https://youtu.be/An0n7N_cPJY
This song was the baby of one of the best guitarist I've ever heard and he's right here on Soundcloud, Ladies and Gentlemen I give you David Hannah. Thank you for the privledge of working on this song David, it really is a very special piece of beautiful music and I absolutely loved working on it and listening to it: https://soundcloud.com/david-hannah-metal
Lyrics:
look away from all the hurtful things
we try to calibrate our love of life
but we fail to grasp our  humanity
even when we're bleeding through our minds
we celebrate the things that are for free
but can they make us whole again

I've broken my link to my sanity
I feel we've done this all before
before you sprout all your profanities
lets look inside the hollow of my mind
don't go down that path your not Dorothy
there is no fairy tale conclusion this time
it's time for the departure of my mind

we sit alone in the shadows
we contemplate our mortality
we all know it can't last for eternity
and that's why we are so frail and weak
we cried like mortal instruments
we felt so useless when it meant
we're just a haunted soul

when you feel like you're a haunted soul
you are feeling more and more like
you're gone
youre gone
youve gone

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Departure

So the mighty David Hannah has done it again with this incredible Metal song which he graciously allowed me to put some vocal on. Here's his profile: https://soundcloud.com/david-hannah-metal.
Be sure to catch it on Spotify and all other media outlets.
I hope you like it as much as we enjoyed making it.
Lyrics:
I'm treading it down, the thought of my drowning
I'm sending it through, the ways of the warrior
I'm crushing the things, that makes us go slower

Burn the things that hurt your brain
Watch their wings as they fly away
Cry a river for all the pain
You feel the need to run again

But I'm going nowhere, till we've got the traction

One two three, I'm alone again
five six seven, on the road again
broken dreams, for the road ahead
fallen angels, want to break your bed

So sounding out the pain of life
we fall and stumble on the spike  and die
don't cry for those who suck at life
we all have time to make it right
so make it right, make it right, make it right

Mysterious eyes are staring you down
don't mess up again, or you'll go down
just follow the path already laid down
don't deviate or fool around
and setup your self for hours of fun
and make your plans to follow the sun
mysterious eye is looking at some
make sure that you are the favored one

Mysterious eye ft David Hannah & TTM

Here's a collaboration I did with my mate Michael Savant. Hope you enjoy it. 
Lyrics:
I'm a man who has seen the noble side of suffering
breaks your heart when you see that they, are all hypocrites
running round like kings and queens, in the tyranny
laughing at the fools who pay the way for them
so silly rants and pale faced pundits rise up here
to break your hearts and minds for vanity
but take no pleasure it's broken sanity
but crude exposures will reveal your depravity

I'm climbing up this wall to see the world
I'm seeing things we never saw before
I'm flying through the air to see you there
I'm trying to break-down the barrier

I'm climbing up these walls, looking out the tops for the cops
I'll get there for sure, but it wont be right or hot
I'm banging on the walls,  but they are hollow like my bones
It can't worse than this, when I get a taste of the bouncers fist

Silent Treatment

Strings lyrics:
Running up the walls here, looking for some answers
why you ended it all, why are we no longer
viable for mating, descended into hating
markings on the carpet, ended it and that's it!
thrown into the wall, like a puppet on a string
feeling like a manequinn, like a puppet on a string

Falling over my feet to reach you
there seems to be some misunderstanding
I'm crushed by the weight of misgivings
I'd rather die than let you hate me 
Oh no

Reasons for your living, are the reasons you were leaving
tried stem the rough tide, but the feelings were tough type
 hearts were broken daily, but you found a way to tally
all the times we were together, you found a way to tether
all the dreams we had together
and we thought that it would never ever
end, the way it did

Alone, I sit, inside of my mind
Feelings of loss and resent, building with time
The rage i feel, its more, than i can express
Leading me down, this path, a darkend descent

This twisted nightmare that I'm in
is pulling and pulling and pulling me by my
strings of life, till the bitter end

Feeling like they've gone, all our memories gone wrong
from the years gone by, hurt collides with love
crashes all our dreams, fells us to the ground

like a puppet on a string
like a puppet on a string
feeling like a manequinn
like a puppet on a string

So now I face the end alone, wondering why it went so bad
I broke the walls of sanity, as I found some comfort in my grief
I feel the strings controlling me, as I struggle to suppress it all
My mind is saying set me free, but my heart is stolen like a thief

Strings

Lyrics:
Woman you caused my world to crash
I'm searching for reasons to call you back
My hurt is what is holding me back
maybe we can go back and try retrace

Wooh oh oh you don't know me
Wooh oh oh you never cared
Wooh oh oh to ask my name
my name

Reasons we are here to live this day
are burned in the minds of all who may
release all the feelings that hold you back
we're reeling from the pain that sent us slack

Wooh oh oh you don't know me
Wooh oh oh you never cared
Wooh oh oh to ask my name
my name

We're cursed for being in love now
we've left it all behind
we've crashed and burnt out hearts out
we're cursed for being in love

Reasons we are still alive today
are the reasons we get up and don't hold back
We're broken but we still run a lap
And ready our hearts for the final lap

Wooh oh oh you don't know me
Wooh oh oh you never cared
Wooh oh oh to ask my name
my name

Cursed

A full time, freelance children's book illustrator, introduced to Magix music making software in January 2014.  Haven't been near music production since school about a hundred years ago.  Can't play a note, and sing like a drain unblocking - Hence any music I may eventually have the nerve to upload is all created using midi/vst instruments playing compositions created in the piano roll editor.   The Magix forum dedicated to music production is the only place to suffer my creations so far.  Didn't realise it could be so much fun though.  Woohoo.

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