second revisit of the day - This originally started as a distorted electric guitar track, then an acoustic set mainstay when I was in Standalone - written in 2005. 

Silver

Written by Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, Martin Doherty
Originally performed by CHVRCHES 

I've been super excited to see CHVRCHES tomorrow, and this has to be my favourite song they do. One-take acoustic cover straight to my phone. 

Recover

Another song I'd written but never recorded, this one always resonated over the years and was always on loop in my skull. It's only 3 chords, but that's possibly why it stuck in my head. 

It's 3AM and I'm wondering why I can't sleep
While the world revolves outside
You dream oblivious to the silent screams, the things I hear inside
Somnambulist, pointing a gun against his head
So if you don't think there's a chance for him,
Can you step right in and pull the trigger?
 
Is it something I should tell you?
Or do you already know?
Are the signs you give misread, or am I just being slow?
 
A promise etched in stone has been eroded by the fickle winds of fate
Didn't want to form these ties, I should simplify, and cut straight to the chase
Irrational, going against my common sense
Ignoring the voices in my head telling me that she's just a girl; just another girl...
 
Is it too late to start over
and pretend we never met? 
Don't wish for something you can't have
Don't wish for something you'll regret
 
Sure I'll ask you to come inside
Sit down and we can talk a while
I'll show you all the secrets I have drowned
She said she's never coming down
Pull off your new shoes
Don't remember what was said
Pointing a gun against his head
He's pointing a gun against his head.

I was messing about with something else and it turned into a Killswitch Engage cover. Written by Howard Jones, Adam Dutkiewicz, Joel Stroetzel, Mike D'Antonio, Justin Foley.

The End Of Heartache

Another song I haven't played for years: this was a mainstay when I was in an acoustic duo. 

I'm a liar 
An opportunist 
I blow the chances that I get 
I'm the fire 
that burns your house down 
Don't think I don't hear what you say 

Can you tell what 
i've been drinking now? 
I don't want to fight you anymore 
Can you tell where 
I've been hurting now 
I don't want to fuck you anymore 

You're the wire 
that i've been walking 
no safety net 
to save my fall 
I get tired 
your wrists start aching 
we'd kill ourselves just to be seen 

we are losing control of everything 
wait til i get my hands on you 

blood on your picture

Fight You

Just messing about with loops on GarageBand for iPhone.. 

Ghost Rodeo


You tend to spend this century not really knowing what you need to know but
why 
if second chances are a thing we live with such intensity, don't know, don't mind
You've got to kill the attitude you're only ever born to lose except
try
internalise the monologue cos they don't really care at all but still just smile

We did good by you
But was it not enough
to save you from
your own devastation

The way out is through
You don't have to rush
To the windmills ride
You'll find your space there

The choking that you're feeling is resistance to the air you're trying to breathe, don't 
drown
The pressure on your chest is just the need to self-confess how you're feeling, it's fine
A time and space to rearrange the parts that failed you into self portraits, don't lie
Amazing how the mission gets forgotten by the time you get there, that's life

Devastation

Original song performed by Iron Maiden
Sorin Annuar - vocals, guitar
Mastered and butchered by Dave Watkins

Went on a Maiden listening binge today and this came out through general fooling about on acoustic. Disclaimer: I have no idea what the real chords are.

2358 (2 Minutes to Midnight - Iron Maiden Cover)

FAWM 2020 Entry #1

Remembering Mars as it failed
all The light years between don't help
A pattern traced around the moon
These lunar scars look down on you

The dust inhaled
From fallen stars
Significance 
Is lost to us

Unshape the dark, drown the rings
Surrounding bodies in heaven's wings
Undream the Earth, it's mostly seas
Survive above, and so beneath

The sun will soon collapse
And what have you got to show for it?

You cannot fight this gravity
The black hole pulls all that it can see

Lunar Scars

Third FAWM entry for 2020, Music by the OD, vocals and lyrics by Sorin 
Footprints in the sands
Of time running free
The silence is mine
It comforts me 

I stop to reflect
In mirror shards
That person never waves back
I don't know who they are

Don't believe in accidents
Random luck's a lie
Wandering infinity
Under sunless sky
Solitude seduces me
Far from maddening crowds
Craving the simplicity
The world behind closed eyes

I'm chasing the moon
So she never sets
She orbits my world
and she moves my tides

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Maybe on this journey
We can see it all
The middle and beginning
The end we make ourselves
This is how the story goes
until the pen runs out
spin it one more time for me
before the curtain drops

Sunless

4th FAWM 2020 entry, music by The OD, vocals and lyrics by Sorin

These concrete veins are wide awake
Pumping out souls on every street
Join me, let's get the fuck away
This place is done, you've seen it all

You only need to know the road
And trust in where you need to go 

Bathe my soul in neon light
So I can find my way again


The night will cover you in cold
The engine's drone will keep you warm
Writhe in our anonimity 
The glass and steel will make us small

[the light turns amber to red and we stop. i turn to look at her as the glow from the buildings illuminates her face, like a goddess of electricity guiding me down this night road. Wordlessly she smiles, and places her hand on my face. I inhale and the lights turn green again]

The Road

FAWM Entry 15022020

Now the sky has shut down
And we sleep with the leaves
We are watched by the moon
And she keeps what she sees

With a sigh on the breeze
Our souls are released
When he comes with his steed
Then the journey completes

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This world is not enough
To hold us in its thrall
We've crossed the ground below
And lived all we could live

Now the stars are like ghosts
Faded out distant lights
And we're gone by the sun
Our ship is the night

Beautiful Death

Sometimes I go inside my head and see that you've come over
And you're repainting the walls
Your footsteps echo down the halls

I try to stop you turning on a light to see
the shadows burn away
to make this place feel safe

You're not like me but that makes it better
Your folded wings shelter us in feathers
It's been so long, where have you been? 

Two hands across my back will push me forward
Onto this other path
Can we forget the past?

The bubble that you made to carry you here
and you have flown for miles
stay with me for a while

In Feathers

Music and production: Ian Lewis
Vocals and lyrics: Sorin Annuar

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