Cloudland Blue Quartet & Edward Spark - We Are the Killers (Beached Margin Mix)

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The final track to be added to this collection. Another creation which stemmed from Edward Spark's attempts at a covers collection. He wanted me to sing "Killer" by Adamski. I've hardly heard it but kind of knew the chorus. Then I thought, "how about including the lyrics of the Alice Cooper group's piece, "Killer" too?" And so a new song was born. I rewrote some of the Adamski lyrics and cut and chopped Mr Spark's backing track and added some Disquietmusik guitar to proceedings. A second mix, in which I added a more upfront rhythm track is in the bonus section...

lyrics

The future kings, the sons and daughters
We are the killers, this is the slaughter

What did I do to deserve such a fate
Didn't really want to get involved in this thing
Someone handed me this gun and I, I gave it everything
Yeah, I gave it everything

I came into this life I looked all around
I saw just what I liked and took what I found
Nothing came easy, nothing came free
Nothing came at all until they came after me

You want to be free, live your life the way you want to be
Will you give if we cry? We live or we die
Tainted hearts heal with time
Shoot the love and stop the crime

Solitary brother, do you want to live?
Solitary sister, do you want to give?
Solitary brother, do you want to live?
Solitary sister, do you want to give?

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from Twentytwentyone, released December 31, 2021
David Reilly : Vocals, Guitars, Treatments
Edward Spark : Synthesisers, 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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