Name: Paranoia's Got You (Acoustic Demo)
Duration: P00H04M05S
Description: The third of three quick demos (you may notice they all use the same rhythm track) not meant for public consumption but what the hell. I recorded these three old Capital Models songs with the intent of trying (for the umpteenth time) to get the current band to play the original stuff from 1980. I hold out little hop but we'll see. To save time, I sing the original synth lines...

Paranoia's Got You (Acoustic Demo)

from Twentytwentyone by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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The third of three quick demos (you may notice they all use the same rhythm track) not meant for public consumption but what the hell. I recorded these three old Capital Models songs with the intent of trying (for the umpteenth time) to get the current band to play the original stuff from 1980. I hold out little hop but we'll see. To save time, I sing the original synth lines...

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I feel like a sports car heading for a brick wall
Paying everyone else’s toll, paying everyone else’s toll
You all look like lemmings heading for the cliffs by the sea
And when you jump, if you jump you’ll be holding on to me

You feel a hurricane where there’s only a breeze
You see a forest where there’s only some trees
Paranoia’s got you; you’re down on your knees
Now you’re not quite so easy to please

You remind me of a book I read, I read the ending first
It’s so predictable after that, it’s so predictable just like this
You all look like lemmings heading for the cliffs by the sea
And when you jump, if you jump you’ll be holding on to me

You feel a hurricane where there’s only a breeze
You see a forest where there’s only some trees
Paranoia’s got you; you’re down on your knees
Now you’re not quite so easy to please

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from Twentytwentyone, released December 31, 2021
David Reilly : Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Bass, Rhythm Bed

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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK

A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more

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