Gratitude

Another punk rock track is born. Release on other platforms 11/10 2023

Lead In The Water

On a dystopian planet, a Neanderthal thaws from an iceblock; he is unconscious and, when the ice has completely melted, his reality dissolves around him. The world he once knew was not only gone but unrecognizable. "My people did this?" He ponders for a moment, and, only to find a doomed society, he becomes shocked at what he thinks his kind has done.

LYRICS:
Took a drive-by, Jimmy boy
What did I see?
Not nothing so forgetful.
Take a walk now, Freddy boy
Who do you lead?
Life's moving soothingly.

What in the world today?
How can this happen to be?
Does Existing Life Somehow?
Is it only just to see?
Here and Now.

Unified mind bathed in a 
Beauteous skin.
Nary running to the line
Too little water to swim in.
Equipped for hardship
Giving the roundabout
Go wonderfully.

What in the world today?
How can this happen to be?
Does Existing Life Somehow?
Is it only just to see?
Here and Now.

Holding on to the ropes of life
Swinging freely
Arcing on.
Crest the wave
Dance the edge
Away to a sleep, far.
Away the future
Stained, betrayed, 
Sowing seeds
The great leap.
Dreaming onward
To a bright and good
Living now
Is it real?
Many times around the sun stays here
But the moon stays down.
Past is present
Isn't done with us
Back to show that there's both.

What in the world today?
How can this happen to be?
Does Existing Life Somehow?
Is it only just to see?
What in the world today?
How can this happen to be?
Does Existing Life Somehow?
Here and Now.

Don't try so hard, Billy boy
What do you need?
You've got fortune so plentiful.
Too long it's been, Tommy boy
Please take a seat.
Life's grooving foolishly.
(Unified mind bathed in a 
Beauteous skin.
Nary running to the line
Too little water to swim in.)

So this is how it plays out.
Return to reality.
Unconstrained by breaking free.
Dwelling on fatality.

Here and Now

Wish You Were Here by George.
From Volume III Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 4th December 1983, 1:30 - 2:45am.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983, 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This is a curious song full of rather esoteric chords.
It was attempted by Laughing Sun in 1985 but never became a part of their live set.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume III Side B

Wish You Were Here

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Band of Georges: Wish You Were Here

Wait Until the Morning by George.
From Volume III Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 27th September 1983, 12:50 - 01:43am.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This song in C major has something of a classic chord sequence.
It was written after a weekend when George felt underwhelmed by how his girlfriend had received him when he went to visit.
He was also frustrated that she insisted they keep their relationship secret from her family and friends.
This is a song that was never heard before  being released here.
It was also never performed by any band.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Wait Until the Morning

Band of Georges: Wait Until the Morning

Will I Still Be With You Tomorrow by George.
From Volume III Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Lyrics by G. Davies/S. Steel.
Composed 16th October 1983, updated 5th January 1986.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983, 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Will I Still Be With You Tomorrow is the third song for The Concept Album, and the second to be finished.
It received a slight lyrical update when George and Senga collaborated on this in 1986.
The chords in the verses are barre chords played in the same positions for each line, but using different shapes.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Will I Still Be With You Tomorrow

Band of Georges: Will I Still Be With You Tomorrow

Too Many Times by George.
From Volume III Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 2nd May 1983, 11:15am to 11:43am.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1982 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This song was written the day after That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard and Two Timer.
It is in the key of E minor.
George's Dad liked the guitar in this one.
We were surprised at how long it was.
There was some sort of accident with a playback, a live track and a punch pedal somewhere in the middle.
It was never performed by a band.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Too Many Times

Band of Georges: Too Many Times

Leaving Me Here by George.
From Volume III Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 18th May 1983.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1982 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
Leaving Me Here was performed by Wud.
Ken could do over-the-top pretty well and did a good job of this song.
The oddly jazzy instrumental break came in part from a guitar lesson George had.
This lesson was his very first introduction to the phrygian mode.
The original idea apparently came from a song by Barbara Streisand.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Leaving Me Here

Band of Georges: Leaving Me Here

They Painted Their Bodies by George.
From Volume III Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies/Y. Crone/S. Steel.
Composed 8th July 1983, updated 5th January 1986.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983, 1986 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
They Painted Their Bodies was the first finished song for The Concept Album.
Although a lot of the music for The Concept Album came fairly quickly, the lyrics did not.
They Painted Their Bodies was composed in a caravan in some woods near Dunsford, on the edge of Dartmoor.
George and Yvonne were ostensibly going to write a lot of songs during the week they stayed there, but only managed the one.
The did manage to enact a ceremony that would feature later on the concept album.
The Concept Album told the tale of some adventurers who embarked upon an epic quest to defeat a terrible evil against insurmountable odds.
The idea came from a computer game on the Apple II called Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord by Andrew Greenberg and Robert Woodhead.
They Painted Their Bodies is in the key of C minor and is the second song for the album.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

They Painted Their Bodies

Band of Georges: They Painted Their Bodies

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