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The Awkward Pause Between Life And Death (WIP)

by Duncan Buchanan

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Casimir 05:57
Instrumental
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16:22 04:04
While I have your attention Can I ask you to submit To an informal debate About whether you think. Just that, do you think? We don’t believe you do Soon enough it’ll catch up If you can’t Just bring yourself to try The mountain started as a mole hill It gets steeper every day Don't get put off by the path I know the time is right I know you’re still quite new to the logic I know you won’t believe All you have to do is open your eyes Open your eyes Open your eyes Open your eyes Open your eyes So we find out We’re back to square one Did you not listen to a word I said Quite frankly if you just ignore The warnings we gave you Then you get what you deserve We’ve been over this a hundred times Why can’t you grasp this? It’s not as if it’s something That's never been tried before It should be so easy You know the time is right You’re too stubborn to admit defeat I know I don’t believe in you My mind is firmly locked and there’s no way in Pitted greasy skin A voice that hasn’t broken The world is against you You’re the centre of the universe We know, we were there first Pull the wool over other eyes
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Every time I turn you're standing there Every time I breathe it's someone else's air Bite down on your reversible tongue, It's confusing me, I don't understand Try to speak in a way in which you can't be heard Don't give the usual excuse I want the god's honest truth Were they better than me, were they cheaper than me? Cut out the August sun I prefer February mist Make sure you wrap up well So I can steal a kiss I told you before you I never got response from you And when I return you'll burn for what you did Bite down on your reversible tongue, It's confusing me, I don't understand Try to speak in a way in which you can't be heard Don't give the usual excuse I want the god's honest truth Were they better than me, were they cheaper than me? And when will I learn? So when will I learn?
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Tear down the ruins We don’t need them Bring chaos to the Masses revoke their Daily passes Teach linguistics To the mute to Brighten the outlook Soak in the ashes Bathe in the hopes And dream of the victims Can’t take them with you Can’t see the future Can’t afford to Take toll on the figures Work for blisters Take aim - everything is achievable Force the hand – everything is deniable Dig in and remain – nothing is achievable Hold on – nothing will last forever At the heights of our glories We’ll look down on you and your follies Being righteous is not always right Begging and pleading will not save your life And neither will we, neither will we Bear down on all Who misjudged you String them up on Hooks in the streets Punishment never Outweighs the crime Dry your eyes on Chloroformed rags At the heights of our glories We’ll look down on you and your follies Being righteous is not always right Begging and pleading will not save your life And neither will we, neither will we
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Maxalon City 04:06
Sickness is so tiresome It drains energy away I'm sick of listening to complaints When I have my own to voice Maxalon relieve the tension of another working day I can't feel it working as well as it should Perhaps we're getting used to new ideals Old chances wrecked for good. I revived this feeling me and me alone You can't take the praise if you never set the goal Maxalon relieve the tension of another working day I can't feel it working as well as it should Perhaps we're getting used to new ideals Old chances wrecked for good.
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Maybe there’s way to convey this Maybe there’s another way to try Maybe ideas are an ugly idea that should be left to rot Maybe when straight lines bend Maybe then life will be full Maybe if you paint your way out of the corners then it won’t look so dull It’s simple, work out the competition … before they have time to think There isn’t another way through this There isn’t another way out Ideas don’t improve or diminish no matter how blank the canvas was * If I didn’t get your attention with the concept Then I don’t know what else there is to say But now what if the tides change? See If they work for us or against? What if the pre-cursers we saw are not all that they’re cracked up to be? Maybe it’s time that we took stock Maybe we should count all the dead Maybe it’s time to put down all the weapons and just start to live * If I didn’t get your attention with the concept Then really, I don’t know what else I can do
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Vacancy 04:53
I start off with nothing Now nothing is all I have Time has left us with nothing but empty promises As far as I can gather. Leave all your belongings here They will be alright I just can't believe that you could have been so right. You and whose army you can't leave me here Who'll do everything you don't want to do? Leave, go on, leave it all behind Don't leave anything, nothing left to remind You and whose army you can't leave me here Who'll do everything you don't want to do? Can't you see, you're everything to me Can't you help at all, does it surpass you? Spend some time when people ask You'll be glad you did in the long run You and whose army you can't leave me here Who'll do everything you don't want to do? You and whose army you can't leave me here Come on, lets leave it all behind..
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Gravity And all the chaos that comes in between Can't speak of anything else and everything Including things That we are never provoking And all that hinges can't see that we are broken Spies, they were all spies! All at once the bricks fall down Nothing at all To repair and contain This damage is done, The limbs won't work, We can rebuild, refute the claims! Depravity All the sodomising in between To induce pain, fixing the games Reduce me again, Use those godless eyes Hide them away with powders that aid decay Spies, they were all spies! All at once the bricks fall down Nothing at all To repair and contain This damage is done, The limbs won't work, We can rebuild, refute the claims!
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61214GO! 05:28
As candles burn the wax away Hair on my neck reaches attention Point at the kid with the bruised eyes You know that he regrets what he said GO! Can you read what the slogan states? What we require is to go slow Can you read what my mind hates Six twelve fourteen go Back to back, at arms length Stretched the creases from my skin Hold me back now reveal your secrets The darker the colour the more intense the rush GO! Can you read what the slogan states? What we require is to go slow Can you read what my mind hates Six twelve fourteen go GO! Can you read what the slogan states? What we require is to go slow Can you read what my mind hates Six twelve fourteen go
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Bind our arms at the wrists Then tie them behind our backs Under the cover of night Tell the crowds to spread the word Migrate, fly away with the flock Give them the key to the starting pistol And leave me behind like some twisted resistor Counting the pebbles and what they’re worth Don’t tempt me to look, I don’t think I could I hope you know, It’s my world that you shook Even after digging in your heels I couldn’t go Self destruction is easy when you’ve nothing to lose You meant the world to me and I asked for naught But I took the blame and I faced the court You watched as my blood it boiled And all I’m left with is my parchment and pen Well guess what, I’m writing this all down Nothing stays secret in this shitty town Maybe next time I’ll remember to write Maybe next time it will remind me to fight
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Foundations 04:33
I cannot read these vertical lines They make no sense to me If you say them out aloud you'll challenge the air that I breath Emotions run high another heavy day I hate myself more for the pain These last few minutes could never be ours again Sharper edges mustn't blur All around must stay focussed Why can't I get my head straight I don't want to choke I cannot see horizontal lines You blinded me years ago Camoflage was decreased and now we cease It's best to say no Amusing myself in a wasted youth corpse host I'm empty silent and still I've said it before I'll say it again I can slip from my window sill Sharper edges mustn't blur All around must stay focussed Why can't I get my head straight I don't want to choke Sharper edges mustn't blur All around must stay focussed Why can't I get my head straight
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about

This is as far as I got back in 2014 at creating my third album. Sadly I had a huge technical problem where my hard drive completely died meaning the only versions I had of the tracks at that time are now here for you to listen to. I was unable to get the tracks completely recorded or even mixed, most don't have vocal tracks but a few actually work pretty well as instrumental tracks anyway. It was such a mammoth task to consider even starting from scratch with all plug ins for my recording software also giving up the ghost with the drive failure. So here in it's fairly raw form is the WIP uncompleted album. I hope you enjoy and kind of get a feel for where it was heading.

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released November 16, 2021

Written, Performed, Recorded & Mixed by Duncan Buchanan. Between January 2013 and April 2014.

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Duncan Buchanan Halesowen, UK

Self taught bassist originally. Moved to guitar and fronting his own band in the early 2000's. Now recording solo, self produced thus far. Try pigeonholing him....

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