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You Gotta Love Spammers
You Gotta Love Spammers started its life as a parody. The words were written after opening my inbox one morning to be greeted with over 100 junk mail or spam emails. The song was never destined for anything apart from a fun tune to do live. The words I thought we quite clever, so I posted them online as poetry. People genuinely liked the sentiment as they could relate to it. Eventually I decided the song needed its own melody, so I wrote one, then another, then another..... I could never quite find the right tune for it. So I put the song aside and gave it no more thought. It wasn't until I was looking for possible album tracks that I went back to the song and tried a new melody to the words. Finally I found something that fitted, so I worked on it for a while before settling on a finished product. However, when it came time to record, a bit of a think-tank took place and some changes were made again. Somewhere, there are 50 or so unsuccessful attempts at this song. Oddly enough, a certain DJ heard it and thought it was our best song, I can't say that it's mine but I still get a wry smile over the lyrics. Perhaps someday there'll be no spam or junk mail and people will scratch their heads and ask, "What the hell is he on about?" -
Paranoia
Paranoia probably began its life in Nineteen Eighty-Four, not the year, the book by George Orwell. The old "Big Brother" is watching you seems more and more real every passing day. It doesn't matter where you go, CCTV's are watching every move you make and of course, that does tend to add to the paranoia. So there's the concept. The melody began when I was trying to play a song that I'd heard played in a computer game and I couldn't get it right. I'd looked for the words and music on the Net but couldn't find it and was trying to figure it out the "old-fashioned" way. But I drifted a long way off that song and when it dawned on me that I had created a unique melody, I set about wording it. The whole song took an hour and a half to complete. We recorded it just a few days after I finished writing it. It was going to be just a song for the album but when I posted it online, people seemed to like it, so much so that it raced to Number 1 on the MS Australian Indie Charts. I then put the song out as a single and to date, it's proven to be our most popular song by way of sales and streams. -
Let Me In
It's funny at times where you draw inspiration from to pen a song. I had a heap of original songs just waiting to be recorded and I'd decided I wouldn't do any more until I'd made a hole in those.In our kitchen on the bench was a bread box and one of the grandchildren had left a book called Let Me In on top of it.Every time I walked past the damn thing I saw it and one day I was going to make a coffee and being in a jovial mood as I walked past, I did a bit of a dance singing repetitively the words Let Me In.A few days later whilst driving into town, that little melody popped back into the head and I started singing Let Me In and it was basically how you hear the chorus now.So I tossed the idea around in the head and a few days later in the space of an hour or so, I wrote the song virtually as you hear it.Yeah, I know it wasn't too hard as it has a lot of repetitive lyrics.But I like it, it has a nice swing feel to it, sort of sounds old-fashioned but new...I hope people enjoy listening to it but I'd be happier knowing they're dancing to it.Let Me In by Darryl John © 2010....
Let me in, let me in,
Baby let me in, let me in,....
Oh baby let me in, let me in....
Please just let me in.....
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Baby’s mad at me,....
She’s angry as can be,....
She thinks that I’m a louse,....
She locked me out the house,....
Oh baby don’t you know,....
That I really love you so,....
So let me in.....
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Let me in, let me in,....
Baby let me in, let me in,....
Oh baby let me in, let me in....
Please just let me in.....
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I don’t know what I’ve done,....
To make you flip your lid.....
If I could turn back the hands of time,....
I wouldn’t do whatever I did?....
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So let me in, let me in,....
Baby let me in, let me in,....
Oh baby let me in, let me in....
Please just let me in.....
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Sweet thing, open the door,....
I’m down on my knee.....
I’ll do everything that you ask,....
If you’ll only agree.....
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To let me in, let me in,....
Come on let me in, let me in,....
Please let me in, let me in....
Please just let me in.....
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Instrumental....
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I can hear you inside,....
My little blushing bride.....
This I implore,....
Open up the door.....
There’s no catch,....
Just unlock the latch,....
And let me in.....
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She’s let me in, let me in,....
Baby’s let me in, let me in,....
Oh baby’s let me in, let me in....
She just let me in.....
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I don’t know what I’ve done,....
To make you flip your lid.....
If I could turn back the hands of time,....
I wouldn’t do whatever I did?....
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She’s got a gun, got a gun,....
Baby’s got a gun, got a gun,....
I know she’s got a gun, got a gun,....
Guess I’d better run, better run.....
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So let me out, let me out....
Please let me out, let me out....
Please just let me out, let me out,....
For God’s sake let me out.....
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Until Tomorrow
Current mood:
Until Tomorrow started its life in 2009....I was trying to get a slowish song that had a power ballad feel about it and over two days I came up with lyrics that were called Baby Until Tomorrow.
amused
It was written from a female perspective and I did have someone in mind for the vocals.
But after trying to play the song on my acoustic guitar (as I had it in my head) as a power ballad, I realised it had more of a country rock ballad feel about it.
In January 2010, I collaborated with Tim and Matt on the song and we came up with the music you hear playing which we recorded without any vocals.
The person I had in mind didn't wish to sing anymore and despite trying to find someone to do the vocals (and with the incentive of a fistful of cash), no one "stepped up to the plate".
The song was then offered to a singer as an original and then the song sat in limbo.
A person did kindly offer to do the vocals and we even got to the rehearsal stage.
Sadly, I become sidelined and that never eventuated.
Finally, after a lot of to-ing and fro-ing over the song and for a lot of reasons that I won't bore you with, I decided on a re-write to make it from a man's point of view and a quick dash into the studio to lay down some vocals.
Now, as I keep telling people, my voice just isn't what it used to be so I came up with the idea of trying a Chad Kroeger type sound.
Worried I might end up more like Tom Waits, I tried it rather softly and huskily.
Now people say I'm doing a Rod Stewart, hey, with the success he's had over the years, I'll take that as a compliment.
But if I sound like Rod it's purely accidental.
Mind you, impersonations have always been a strong point with me but this one wasn't intended to be that.
Perhaps some day, someone will want to put their "female" hand up and do this song how it was originally written.Until Tomorrow (Male Version) by Darryl John (c) 2010 (Collins, Smolenaers & John)
(C) Just be my baby,
(G) Until tomorrow.
(Am) By then maybe,
(F) I’ll have no sorrow.
(C) I’ll treat you right,
(G) Cos I’m yours tonight,
(Am) You’ll be my baby,
‘til the (F) mornin’ light.
(C) Just be my baby,
(G) Until tomorrow.
(Am) Please don’t make me,
(F) Beg, steal or borrow.
(C) I’m here for you,
(G) No matter what I do.
(Am) You’ll be my baby,
‘til the (F) sun shines through.
(C) So waddya want from me?
(G) A commitment forever.
(F) Well that’s a long, long time,
So it’s (G) now or never.
(C) What I want from you’s,
(G) A commitment also,
(F) So what’s it to be girl?
Should I (G) stay or should I go?
Instrumental
(C) My bags are packed (I’m),
(G) Leaving you behind.
(Am) I’ve got things to do,
(F) If you don’t mind.
(C) Perhaps you’ll wait,
(G) But you need to know.
(Am) You’ll be my baby,
‘til it’s (F) time to go.
(C) So waddya want from me?
(G) A commitment forever.
(F) Well that’s a long, long time,
So it’s (G) now or never.
(C) What I want from you’s,
(G) A commitment also,
(F) So what’s it to be girl?
Should I (G) stay or should I go?
(C) So I’m movin’ on,
(G) To another place.
(Am) Is that okay,
Cos I’ll (F) remember your face.
(C) You know I’m gonna be,
(G) The one with no sorrow.
(Am) Just be my baby,
(F) Until tomorrow.
(C) You’ll be my baby,
(G) Until tomorrow.
(Am) You’ll be my baby,
(F) Until tomorrow,
(C) You’ll be my baby.
Repeat and fade (optional)