Original song by Thom Yorke, music for Suspiria (2018 film) OST

Lyrics:
This is a waltz thinking about our bodies
What they mean for our salvation
The little clothes that we stand up in
Just the ground on which we stand
Is the darkness ours to take?
Bathed in lightness, bathed in heat
All is well, as long as we keep spinning
Here and now, death still behind a wall
When the old songs and laughter we do
Are forgiven always and never been true
When I arrive, will you come and find me?
Or in a crowd, be one of them?
Wore the wrong sign back beside her
No tomorrow's at peace

Suspirium (live acoustic cover, orig. song by Thom Yorke)

A bagatelle, there are bigger issues I know but flies just get my goat. On a positive note, Ghislaine's photos make them look so beautiful  (youtu.be/XUWzqxtFlX0) and I was able to slip the word 'boondoggle' into the lyric.

Shoo fly don’t bother me
Shoo fly don’t bother me
Shoo fly don’t bother me
Stop with this boondoggle 
Or there will be some trouble
With me

There’s a blow fly on my knee
A blow fly on my knee
A blow fly doing a high five 
On my knee 
Better stop with this boondoggle
Or there will be some trouble
With me

Early in the morning
I’m giving you a warning
Don’t land on my blue suede shoes
Buzzing at full throttle
You know that a blue bottle
Might have something to lose

Blow fly on my knee
Blow fly on my knee
Blow flying a high five
On my knee
Stop with this boondoggle
Or there will be some trouble
With me

Blow Fly

From the new album “Vibrations Empowered Within”- 

https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/vibrations-empowered-within

The album will have many percussive explorations, including Balinese Gamelan, Middle East, Balkan with vocals, Indian, African, and electronic infused hybrids from regions yet to be discovered.
I look forward to bring you on an aural journey when it is released in October

Mood Exhibit - Elixir Dunes

I always love it when my good friend and bandmate Pat Howell sends me his latest mandolin musing, this time with his Octave.  His musing becomes my "muse" and the ideas start to flow, this time using two mandolins and two guitars.  Just in time for Fall, and maybe my favorite season, a refreshing breeze from the Texas Highlands.  Hear more fine music on Pat's Cloud @patrick-howell-786748109

Texas Highlands (Pat Howell; Mandolins, David Dunham; Guitars)

The number of ways to express loss? I think it must be infinite. The acuteness of pain and desperation is quite something and it cries out to be made beautiful. This is a breakup song. 
Note from Graeme - can I be the first to say - how good is Gina's singing on this? 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

I'm sure it’s unhealthy
To live at the edge
Of a gaping hole like this
My favourite things 
Keep on falling in
I can’t hold them back

When you first left
I could camouflage it
With substitutes
But they don’t stand up
They don’t stand the test
I just saw right through them all

Please believe that anything
I ever said or did in any way
Was never ever ever 
Meant to smite you 
And please believe that anything
I ever said or did in any way 
Was never ever ever ever meant to spite you
Nothing was meant to go against the grain
Nothing was meant to cause you 
Grief or pain
The only thing I wanted 
For the wonder that was us
Was to delight you

Sometimes someone needs to know it’s all or nothing
Sometimes someone steps out of the crowd
Rises high above them
She can see him for miles
I’ll be yours forever
If that’s allowed
Will you hear me now
I say I’m sorry
I think I know exactly how it hurts
Can we talk it out 
You gotta know I’m sorry

9000 Things To See

Want Me Forever?

Camouflage

'Toffeenose' is a mixed genre piece, including elements of neo classical, jazz and fusion.

Toffeenose

Produced by Martin Reed.
https://youtu.be/udFgtgijCkA

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A couple of months ago, Rodolfo Planes from Tierra del Fuego sent me a wonderful piece of music (in a different key and without lead guitar) that he hoped I’d write lyrics for… 
I was so excited that the first verse popped into my head almost straightaway, and with great patience and honesty, Rodolfo lead me through the learning curve that would be the gestation of this song.
The passionate music somehow stirred in me a sense of longing and belonging, combined with the enforced isolation from loved ones during lockdown. I think Rodolfo’s music helped me express this powerfully.
His solo still continues to move me even after countless listens. I am very grateful to him for this opportunity and I sincerely hope we can work on other projects. 
Thanks for listening and please check out Rodolfo’s cloud if you can.

Composition, instrumentation, arrangement and production: https://soundcloud.com/rplanes
Lyrics and vocals: https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett
Image of Loch Maree, Scotland used with kind permission of Douglas Corrance.

https://continentalcollision.bandcamp.com/track/set-me-down-that-road

I know where I’m going,
Though I don’t know where I am.
My drive ain’t slowing,
If it’s Birmingham, Alabam.
Gotta get me on the road,
Back to where I’m coming from,
Might not have the zip code,
But I know where I belong. 
I know, I know, I know that I belong.
It might take me some time,
But I’m on my way already.
Set me down that road.

I know what I’m missing,
And where I might find it.
Without even reminiscing,
I’m right back there, I admit.
Close my eyes, and I’m there,
Though in reality,
I’m still stuck in elsewhere,
And I’m the absentee.   
I know, I know, I know that I’ve done wrong.
It might take me some time,
But I’m on my way already.
Set me down that road.

I’ve been uninvited,
Yet I felt compelled to come
A need to be reunited,
Whatever the outcome.
This prodigal believes,
In the error of his ways.
He vows that he’ll never leave,
Where his hat now he lays
I know, I know, I know that I’m back home.
It has taken some time,
But I feel at home already.
I’ve been down that road.

Set Me Down That Road - Continental Collision - Now Available on Bandcamp

Pic: When I first heard the Sex Pistols I set my music system on fire.

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Cumbrian