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House of Sleep

by Toby Darling

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House of Sleep 05:30
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House Of Sleep Intro: A9 Cmaj7 Bm7 Em x4 A9 Cmaj7 Bm7 Em Shutters drawn, candles long out C Am7 Em You could think this was a dead place A9 Cmaj7 Bm7 Em But souls inhabit the halls, there’s people lying in these walls C Am7 Em And there’s life behind this silent face Chorus A: Am7-Bm7-C-D This is a house of sleep Em – Am7 – Bm7 - C Lovers talking only in dreams Am7-Bm7-C-D Nothing is quite as it seems Em – Am7 – Bm7 – Am7 In this house of sleep Parties died, music don’t play We speak only in our deaf tongue Don’t say what we really feel, eyes shut with lids of steel And forget those love songs we sung Chorus B: This is a house of sleep Breathing just to stay alive Easier to slumber than to try In this house of sleep Verse Instrumental Dm7 Am7 Will you ever try to wake me G F Whisper in my ear and shake me Dm7 C Say we gotta sort things out Am7-Bm7-C-D But I don’t think we’ll ever make it out of this Em D Am7 House of sleep Chorus A, B etc
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It's Raining on my Piano (Darling/Maertens) 04:52
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It's Raining On My Piano Intro: E F#m x4 E G#m A G#m Listen to the silence....of this heavy sky E G#m A G#m Clouds are rolling in, sky's about to cry, E G#m A G#m Lightning's in the distance, can you feel its light? E G#m A B Have you an umbrella? Oh... the thunder.... Chorus: E F#m There's a storm in this song E F#m It's raining on my piano E F#m Don't know where I went wrong E F#m It's raining on my piano C#m7 B How can emptiness F#m G#m Take up so much space? E F#m It's raining on my piano G#m F#m I can't write, this way The cold is setting in, turning all to ice, What have I to do? Tell me, what's the price? I put out my heart, with ink from my eyes, Taste the truth it brings, Touch the hues it cries Chorus C#m7 G#m7 F#m7 G#m7 I must run for shelter, while I wonder why... Silence is the answer, every time I try Moro mou...(Moro mou).... Don't you know I love you? Paidi mou...(Paidi mou)... Are you, that far, blind? Can't you see I need you? I'm losing my mind As I whisper "Mava mou, Please open his eyes", "He's so lonely and so cold, Give me courage, make me bold" Chorus E F#m E F#m These words are but purple, without melody E F#m G#m A I need you, my Love....Write these words with me. Chorus Instrumental The cold is setting in, turning all to ice, What have I to do? Tell me
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The Girl In the Distance 04:04
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Here is an acoustic remix of a song I wrote about 15 years ago. The Girl In the Distance Gm7 Cm7 Crossing over hills Dm7 Gm7 Swimming over seas Cm7 Dm7 Gm7 Looking hard as I can to find her I think I see her face Is that her waving Seems like she's waiting for me then she's nowhere Chorus: Cm7 Dm7 Gm7 The girl in the distance Cm7 Dm7 Gm7 Always a step away Cm7 Dm7 Gm7 One day I know I'm going to find her Cm7 Dm7 Gm7 The girl in the distance I don't know her name Don't care where sh'es going All I know is I got to search Till I meet her Chorus verse instrumental Fm7 Gm7 Seems like I've spent Cm7 A life on my own Dm7 Gm7 I need her now Dm7 Gm7 Why can't she just stop Dm7 Cm7 Gm7 She knows I'll be waiting Chorus etc
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Ghost of a Ghost 03:48
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Ghost of a Ghost Intro: Em F#m Em F#m Bm7 C#m7 F#m7 Em F#m7 So reality bites Em F#m7 And spits you out the other side Bm7 C#m7 Turns to change your world F#m7 So you’ve nowhere left to hide And you know Existence is just suffering A game played on a child With no rhyme or reason Chorus A: Bm7 C#m7 I’m just a ghost Bm7 C#m7 A ghost of a ghost Bm7 C#m7 Rattling round this home F#m7 Since you’ve gone Memories bring pain And photos cut like a knife Its gonna take more than time To bring me back to life No more religion Or words to comfort the soul Just a blank screen of loss And centuries to grow old Chorus B: I’m just a ghost A ghost of a ghost Don’t scare noone but myself Since you’ve gone Chorus instrumental C#m7-Bm7 C#m7 – Bm7 There can be silence here F#m7 Let the light not shine C#m7-Bm7 C#m7 – Bm7 Move slowly only by night F#m7 Till the days have died Chorus A/B etc
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Best and Worse 05:28
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Best and Worse Intro Am Em x4 E F#m Am Em Am Em Am Em I need you, like the air that I breathe E F#m Am Em Am Em Am Em I want you, so bad I can't see what's going on A G Bm7 A Taking chances, the scarlet glances Em F#m The whispers in the corridor Bm7 A And my soul crying out for more Chorus: G D And when I'm lying here Em F#m In a place I shouldn't be G D Thinking you're the best C G A And the worse thing that's happened to me When you lit that spark, like flint on a dry desert heart I felt love like I'd never known before, like you'd opened a hidden door Led me crying, to your secret space And I'd never find a better place To call home Chorus Verse instrumental E F#m But happiness don't come for free A B With the joy there's the agony Em F#m Guilt like a screaming choir Bm7 A And desire like a raging fire Chorus etc
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The Workhouse 04:28
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The Workhouse Em Bm Cabinets filled with stuffed green woodpeckers A Am The market town's bustling while the Avon flows G D Weasels and rabbits frozen in flight Am Em Like the busy footsteps in the afternoon light Passing by my small shop front Looking for fashion or gloves to wear Not interested in foxes or dusty trout Just strong Ringwood ale to see the day out B F#m And tomorrow they're going to take me... C#m To the workhouse B F#m And there I will spend the rest of my days A E 'Till typhoid takes my breath away Bm A And history buries me in an unmarked grave C#m - E - D - A G At the workhouse So I'll walk through the forest one last time Reach the leech lake where the swans swim in a line Past roebucks and horses and a sweet chestnut copse Say farewell to life as the sun drops Chorus D A Yes I'll whistle a long forgotten tune Em Bm My Playford days and my Purley moons D A And my craft and the gentle sound of a saw Em G - A And soft footsteps through the nursery door Toby Darling 3/11/16
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Misere 04:06
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Misere Intro: G Am7 Em Bm7 Am7 Bm7 G Bm7 I'm gazing at an empty hand Am7 Bm7 Kings and Queens have flown away G Bm7 I begged the aces stay around Am7 G Bm7 The Joker had to change his mind anyway The hearts left in your embrace Clubs thought they'd join in too Diamonds would have liked to stay Spades had something else to do Am7 G You're holding all the cards Am7 Em Am7 I can't win, ain't got a chance in this game of Chorus: G Am7 Misere Em Bm7 I can't pull a single trick it's G Am7 Misere Em Bm7 Am7 You got me beat and I'm losing it So you wanted sweet revenge 'Bout the way I treated you Thought You'd get back what was lent Move on to somebody new in this game of.. Chorus Verse Instrumental Chorus etc
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Breamore 03:36
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Breamore Em C6 C Take the lane from the Bat and Ball Am7 Em Down to the Avon and the fields of marsh Em C6 C Onto the platform at Breamore Halt Am7 Bm7 Heading north up along the old railway's course Moss grown fence-posts and new-grown trees Dead sweetcorn, rusted iron, water either side A widened road runs up to Salisbury Steam became petrol as the old line died Am Bm7 No trace remains of the day in June Am G When the rolling-stock screamed with the sounds of pain F Em And this place became a scene of doom Dm E7 And they lurched like a drunkard into the drain G#m7 C#m7 G#m7 C#m7 Make a chant for Emily, Lilian, Mary and George A F#m C#m Om Taro Tuttare Ture Svaha G#m A E F#m Incense and flowers so they don't need stay more Am Dm Am Trapped in the hiatus of their final hour Walk back across mist-laden chalk Past the Gallows Hill and the Giant's Grave The Tudor mansion and the Saxon church As the crows and gulls circle the end of the day Am7 Bm7 Stop a while in the Bat and Ball Am G Where Sunday diners soak up the warmth F Em And know nothing of 1884 Dm Am When this place became a morgue (c) Toby Darling Dec 12th 2016
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When You Fall Down 04:16
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When You Fall Down Intro: riff around Em B A Em If absolute power corrupts and leads to decay B A Then you must be the foulest of them all Em Swinging your weight knowing you’re above the law B A Knowing that no one dare answer your call B A But you better make sure you stay at the top G F#m While you’re surrounded by victims of your crimes Em D Cos the moment the crown starts to drop C D B7 You’re going to face your reckoning time Em D C Am7 When you fall down G D Am7 Yeh when you fall down Em D C Am7 The ghosts of your sins will be banging at your door G D Am7 When you fall down It’s easy to think might is right When you’re holding all the cards You can twist the truth cos you can’t be denied But when you crash you’ll come down hard When you fall down Yeh when you fall down The mills of god grind slow but small When you fall down Chorus intr G D Am7 Evil always kills itself in the end D Am7 Em And the truth will find its way out G D Am7 But it won’t put right all the pain D Am7 B7 And revenge starts the cycle all over again
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I'll Never Have You (free) 04:18
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I'll Never Have You Intro: Am7 Em7 x4 Am7 Em7 Am7 Em7 I can dream a thousand nights Am7 Em7 Am7 Em7 And tell myself all day long Am7 Em7 Am7 Em7 'Bout how good we'd be together Am7 Em7 Am7 Em7 How our love would turn out strong Bm7 Am7 But all the times I tried Em7 Bm7 To get you close to me Gm7 Am7 I knew deep in my heart Dm7 G Even a fool could see... Chorus D Em F#m G-A That I'll never have you D Em F#m G-A Em7 No I'll never have you I can walk a thousand miles And tell myself on the way 'Bout the times we'd have together And you'd never stray But all the times I tried To look you in the eye I knew that after all It was my wishful lie 'Cos I'll Never have you No I'll never have you Verse instrumental I heard your voice the other day Laughing with a friend I heard you calling out my name You said that 'till the end I'd never have you No I'll never have you I'd never have you No I'll never have you (etc fade)

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Original songs which I have remixed over the last few months

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released January 20, 2017

All music and Lyrics by Toby Darling, except where indicated otherwise.

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Toby Darling Penang, Malaysia

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Feel free to do anything you want with these tracks, I am not interested in making money from music.

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