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SLAVE OF DAYS

Slave of Days by Dark Company, from the album Mind Dance.

SLAVE OF DAYS
So low you really can’t be seen
So low drifting in a dream
So low locked in your mind
Hiding from the people that you left behind

Geometry is measuring buildings of force
Crescents and circles through twilight they walk
Cameo cutbacks of everyday life
Cutting out the pictures with my sharp little knife

So low you really can’t be seen
So low drifting in a dream
So low locked in your mind
Hiding from the people that you left behind

I can’t taste the people they are melting away
In brushed out rush hours twice a day
And suicide surgeons inside their heads
Slice up reality both living and dead

So low you really can’t be seen
So low drifting in a dream
So low locked in your mind
Hiding from the people that you’ve left behind
Hiding from the people that you’ve left behind
Hiding from the people that you’ve left behind
Hiding from the people

Words by Peter Greatorex. Copyright ℗ 1999 Rotgut Records.

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/S. Lock.

Copyright © 2015 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1999 Rotgut Records.

Recorded, engineered, mixed and produced at Wud Records Studio One 2015.

Performers:

PJ Speed – vocals
Zak Black – guitars
Maxx Damage – bass
Sven Stiglund – drums

Fun Facts:

  • Slave of Days is a song in the key of B.
  • It only has three chords – A, B and F#.
  • If you don’t like playing bar chords, you can transpose it down to A and play just G, A and E, or to D and play just C, D and A..
  • We always loved the raw punky energy of this song.
  • ‘So low’ refers to keeping your head down and remaining out of sight, rather than suffering from depression.
  • The references to geometry and shapes come from visualisation exercises to practice when studying the Kaballah.
  • This is a song about the happy and bewildered misfit, looking in from society’s ragged edge.


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