Nine classic songs reimagined and reprogrammed.

The Tunes They Are A-Changin

I enjoyed Spirited, Netflix Christmas offering. This song was a highlight for me, so I thought I'd see if it could be given the 80s treatment.

The New York siren seemed relevant and gives a nice ambience and context.

The picture is the view from the top of the Empire State Building, photographed by me on my last visit to New York.

The View From Here (feat. Octavia Spencer), 80s EDM remix

Great vocals from AbelTriesHerBest remixed with a dash of the 80s. Bill Murry and Andie MacDowell make a guest appearance in the middle 8.

Time After Time (feat. AbelTriesHerBest) Groundhog Day remix

The classic 80s song from Breaking Glass, with a middle 8 taken from Tim Minchin's Groundhog Day musical 'Being Nancy', with some Pet Shop Boys production.

Stay Now (feat Hazel O'Connor & Rebecca Faulkenberry), Pet Shop Boys remix

Life... Can I forgive you? Can I forgive you?
Please help
Help me to find
Hope, so badly timed
Love, leaves your world behind
Faith, of a diffent kind

This strange asylum holds you back
No chains or bars to hold you

Some days I remember
Can I forget you
Can I forgive you
Some weeks I do better
Can I forgive you
Can I forget you

These years go by - Life
Years go by - Life
Years go by - Life
Years go by- Life

No time, no time at all
To stop and unerstand the call
Behind the scenes of every day
Everyone tries to remember

Some weeks I do better
I do better, I do better
Better, better,
I do better some weeks...

Can I Forgive You

The classic Elton John song reimagined with Ariana in lead vocals

Rocket Man chillout version

Now and again,
Summer night,
Autum rain.
You were the one to track the changes,
As the changes come and go.
You are the first and last,
You were the one to break the past
Here, all the differences framed in black and white
You are the night.

Five days of winter,
Cut your first world issues down to size.
Five nights that splitter,
Watch your shattered lives spread to the wind.

On the way,
We felt the things you could not say,
We were the ones to climb the walls and make the winter fall.
And I was born to fight,
Winter will form my view
When I was gone, I'd stay
You were the one to know.
You are the night.

Five days of winter,
Cut your first world issues down to size.
Five nights that splitter,
Watch your shattered lives spread to the wind.

Spread to the wind, spread to the wind
Five days of winter

Five Days Of Winter

My, my, did you see that sign?
I don't know nothing, but I know what's mine,
Good God! Did you see them turn?
Here's the light, watch them burn.

Your words, so hard to swallow
With silence sure to follow...

Does it feel like no one needs you?
Does it hurt you, no one's listeniing?
Does it feel like we don't need you?
Does it hurt you, no one's listeniing?

This time, you could try the truth,
hide behind the lies so they could never prove
that you're wrong ... and you just keep on
Looking for more reasons where they don't belong.

Your words, so hard to swallow
With silence sure to follow...

Does it feel like no one needs you?
Does it hurt you, no one's listeniing?
Does it feel like we don't need you?
Does it hurt you, no one's listeniing this time?

My, my ...

This time, you could try the truth,
hide behind the lies so they could never prove,
that you're wrong... and you just keep on

Your words, so hard to swallow
With silence sure to follow

No One's Listening

To sit and watch the sea
Rolling the sky
And now your home is just
An empty shell inside

You would often swim
Too close to the shore,
Left behind your problems
To dive for more.

If you could stand then you would walk
If you could walk then you might run
If you could run
You'd run right back
To the seashore

Back to the water
Sing your siren song

You've been swimming against the tide
Pushing thourgh these waves
You've been drowing the call inside
Drifting through your days

Back in the water
Back where you belong
Back underwater
Sing your siren song

You've been swimming against the tide
Pushing through these waves
You've been drowning the call inside
Twisting through your days

I still hear the sea
Roaring in my head
As a reminder of
Those things we never said

I still hear the sea
I still hear the sea
I still hear the sea
I still hear the sea

Back To The Water (I still hear the sea) extended mix

It's so impossible,
Your sky's too blue,
Seems like an outside chance,
Breaking through

It's so incredible
your lightening dance,
We've heard this speculation,
And you've had no chance,

You've seen too many things,
Shot down in flames,
Seems like an outside chance,
But here come the planes

Hold to me,
'cos I can be your parachute,
I'll fall with you,
and me...?
I can be your parachute,
If you'll hold tight

You draw your happy trails,
Across the sky,
Dark rain or raninbow's end,
Your engines die

You've seen too many things,
Shot down in flames,
Seems like an outside chance,
But here come the planes

Hold to me,
'cos I can be your parachute,
I'll fall with you,
and me...?
I can be your parachute,
If you'll hold tight

There's several people waiting,
To waste your time,
Still several people waiting,
To waste your time

Hold to me,
'cos I can be your parachute,
I'll fall with you,
and me...?
I can be your parachute,
If you'll hold tight

I Can Be Your Parachute

Sometimes there seems no point
In waking up as you
You're watching the life you lived
Slowly fade from view
You can feel the difference
The change from yesterday
You're still a little hopeful now
But it might slip away

Do you feel small?
Do you feel stupid?

Come take a moment
See the world in all its varied colours
Come rest a while
You are not alone, so don't feel this way

Next time the lights go out
Your flame is burning blue
Searching for the dreams you've lost
Hoping they'll come true

You can feel the difference
The change from yesterday
You're still a little hopeful now
But it might slip away

Do you feel small?
Do you feel stupid?
No hope at all
You're moving backwards

Do You Feel Small

That's that place,
The place that they will tell you,
Will fill your pockets up with gold.
And here's the person,
The person with the letters,
The letters that will tell you you've been sold,
Nows the time,
The time to make decisions.
The setting sun has dipped behind the clouds,
These are your problems,
Many, many problems,
None of which make any sense to you.

And here's your future,
Not much of a future,
Watching you burn all your bridges down.
And here's your demons,
Facing all your demons,
Watching you burn all your bridges down.

Say farewell,
Farewell to all the good things,
Farewell to all those tasks you've left behind.
Say goodbye,
Goodbye to all the people,
All the people squandering your time.
There's still a chance,
A chance to change the story,
The seting sun builds twilight, step by step.
These were your problems,
Many, many problems,
None of which made any sense to you.

Burning Bridges

Spirals... spirals...

To begin
Take a step towards the precipice
You will find a place
You will shine
You will cast your shadow
Far across a different land
Far from anything you've seen before

To continue
Take a step down a different path
You will find your way
Through an accidental moment
Thinking words you never dared to say out loud
Thinking thoughts you wouldn't recognise

Tracing out this spiral

Here you are back at the start
No closer to your target
What a waste!
What a waste!
Tracing out his spiral

This may take some time
Some time to get used to
What a way to spend your days
Tracing out this spiral
Here you are back at the start
No closer to your target
What a waste!
What a waste!
Tracing out this spiral

Spirals

Slipping hrough your fingers
Slipping throhg your hands
Every single moment
Is never coming back
Struggle as you will do
And all the blind good luck
No one's coming back from
The place we all end up

Both struggles monumental
And stupid little things
Both conspire to push you higher
And give your memories wings

10,000 days take flight behind you
Butterflies that paint the sky
A million beats of gold and scarlet
Pushing on away they fly

These days will turn to lost weeks
Lost weeks to misplaced years
See what we've left behind us
Were we ever really here?
Some days can seem so endless
Other times just disappear
Looking now what's left behind us
Were we ever really here?

Both struggles monumental
And stupid little things
Both conspire to push you higher
And give your memories wings

The sand falls softly
Top to bottom
Collecting slowly down below
We've learnt some things
But we've forgotten
Everything we used to know

The ripples and changes
Will spread slowly
Are too subtle to detect
The impact made across a lifetime
You can't ignore
The butterfly effect

The Butterfly Effect

One more face on another screen
One more name to forget
One more view from a different perspective
One that's full of regret

Speaking clearly to other people
Maybe I was wrong
Preconceptions are holding you back
In everything you've done

One more lifeline to keep from drowning
One more path to success
One more turn, as your confidence rises
One last chance to impress

Future perfect in lost translations
Maybe you're okay
Conversations are holding you back
No matter what you say

Speaking clearly to other people
Maybe I was wrong
Preconceptions are holding you back
In eveything you've done

But you're no Superman
And I'm no Lois Lane
I'm doing the best that I can
And you do the same

But you're no Superman
And I'm no Lois Lane
I'm doing the best that I can
And you do the same

No Superman

When Downstream Consequences meet up with the Stock Boys and The Tuesday Club the result is optimal existential inertia and etheric bedlam.

The bus I never take carries Jim Capacity and his Memetic Desire duo towards the war king, who is not dancing.

So... That's A No, with No Recovery playing support.

The View From Here (feat. Octavia Spencer), 80s EDM remix

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