Name: All An Illusion (Balcarres Street Demo)
Duration: P00H03M48S
Description: The first proper recording I made with my new DAW set-up in 2006. I was listening to The Blue Nile a lot during this time and so the keyboard/synth parts took inspiration from them.

All An Illusion (Balcarres Street Demo)

from 2020 [Bonus Edition] by David William

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The first proper recording I made with my new DAW set-up in 2006. I was listening to The Blue Nile a lot during this time and so the keyboard/synth parts took inspiration from them.

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Don't know what to say
In the ashtray glow
I could multipli myself and still you wouldn't know
Ubiquitous beneath
The molten rocks and stones
Now it's everywhere inside but too afraid to show

It's all an illusion instead
It's only a game we swallowed up
It's all an illusion this life
You scratched the surface and you bled

Sick of all this talk
It never goes nowhere
And all my visions stay upstream in states of disrepair
Each and every word
Seems to hang in the air
A better place we both could find but that is what we beware

It's all an illusion instead
It's only a game we swallowed up
It's all an illusion this life
You scratched the surface and you bled

It's only a game we play till the end and try to
Get what we can I said
You can't carry on trying to teach yourself
What you already know

It's all an illusion instead
It's only a game we swallowed up
It's all an illusion this life
You scratched the surface and you bled

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from 2020 [Bonus Edition], released March 26, 2020
Written by David William

Bass - David William
Vocals, all other instruments & drum programming - David William

Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by David William
Produced by David William

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