Chasing Out Demons

[Ray Brookes]

Between free and forsaken
Between taking and taken
Between magical and miserable
Baleful and benign
Between radiant and ruthless
Useful and useless
Angelic and acidic
Resourceful and resigned.
 
Between north and south
Foot in her door and foot in her mouth
Between vague and venomous
And poison tasted
Credibility challenged
Credit card cancelled
Funds mishandled
Wakeful and wasted.

My queen without sceptre or crown
She's had more knocks than a rodeo clown
Sometimes life is as good as it gets
Chasing demons out and edging her bets.

Between control and chaos
Between frugal and frivolous
Between predator and prey
Between puerile and paralyzed
Peddling poems and popping pills
Picking pockets and people skills
Preparing wills and paying bills
Between paternal and patronized.

Sometimes she feels like she gave a performance
Other times watched from the cheap seats in the audience
A family raised; always done her best
Chasing demons out and edging her bets.

[thetworegs]

Loving the play with words in the lyric in fact loving it all the orchestration is excellent as always the breakdown with the bass and electric piano superb

[Bluesberry]

Wow...very progressive sounding.....dense thoughtful lyrics and the music is superb

[kenny mac]

I loved this after hearing the 1st  couple of chords.
Great production as usual.
The piano is so good and the drums, and the guitar.
Then of course there's the vocal work and the lyrics.
And then a bass solo thrown in for good measure,reminded me of Jacob pastorius.
Superb.

[hardlock]

Stunning piece of work! Love that change up at 1:30 - lead and bass kills! As usual vocals top notch with great lyrics. It's got it all!

[Ron D Bowes]

Great song Ray. The lyrics are excellent mate. Top song. Incidentally I did a song called Kick Those Demons Out - nothing like this of course LOL. Nice changes in the song too. Bridge is cool.

[StephenM]

If I were to comp this I would say it reminds me of the great John Wetton type tracks along with the great ness of the band Asia... you know Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Carl Palmer?  Not exactly but along those lines...
I certainly do not feel qualified in anyway to comment on this yet here I am attempting to...

it's a really complex pieces...lots of twists and turns yet it comes back to the main music idea, which is very catchy... but this would not be a typical hit song like you might hear from the knack... this is not something for the masses... this is for the cultured in music.... veers into that slowdown like some members of Floyd played with members of Little River Band...
but all in all... this is just how good you are Ray... hats off to you sir!

love the word play here too

[Redler]

So well written song on every way! Great lyrics, performance and arrangement. The bass solo is amazing!

[Trist]

Great lyrics Ray and i love the pattern /style flow of them, excellent piano, quite a varied song musically with the little pick ups and drops and musical sections, really nicely constructed,  looking forward to when you do a 9 minute epic as musically lyrically and vocally would be awesome. don't leave me wanting more, i want 9 minutes or 20 lol, i not kidding either. great track

[TPB]

Loved from the intro and the change up half through was great. The word smith has struck again well done brother
Tim