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When the winds of storms calm down
Everyone left will turn around
and everything will be upside down
But I'm fine
and after all is said and down
I know it will be won
Harmony dissonance will reign
Harmony dissonance will reign
and in the end the story goes on
and on and on and on...
Harmony dissonance will reign
Harmony dissonance will play
Harmony dissonance dismay
Harmony dissonance will sing
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Anastasia, why did you leave?
To go where no one knows...
People always say, they don't know where
The people... where's the people
Anastasia, you were so lovely
Never lost the world
Between you and me, you and me, oh
I wish you would come back
Come back to me...
Wish you would come back
Come back to me...
I wish you could stay and be
with me, Anastasia
Anastasia... oh...
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(instrumental)
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I've been down this road many times
and I've seen many things, I won't lie
But to call themselves human
After all I have seen - a disgrace to all of humanity
I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
To claim their derision - is a goal
is no better than the men who hold us so
I think they know they can't be anymore than they be
so they lie and say it's what I've wanted to see
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
To take me away from this world
would be a blessing in disguise
(instrumental break)
Take me back - I want to go home
They will stop the show, they'll stop the show
and I have no sympathy for Circus Freaks...
and I have no sympathy for Circus Freaks...
and I have no sympathy for Circus Freaks...
and I have no sympathy for Circus Freaks...
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
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When the winds of storms calm down
Everyone left will turn around
and everything will be upside down
But I'm fine
and after all is said and down
I know it will be won
Harmony dissonance will reign
Harmony dissonance will reign
and in the end the story goes on
and on and on and on...
Harmony dissonance will reign
Harmony dissonance will play
Harmony dissonance dismay
Harmony dissonance will sing
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(instrumental)
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Imperfection, her affection is so crystalline
Her emotion and devotion is so out of line
Operating in my dreams now I'm a lunatic
Hoping one day we'll be lovers, making me feel sick
Losing sight of what I have is not a problem, no
All I want is to be with her, not to lose control
After all that we have been through, can it ever change
After all that we have been through, should it ever change
A moment with her
A moment with her
A moment with her
A moment with her
A moment with her
A moment with her
Surrounded by love, you feel alone
Surrounded by lies, you know you're alone
Surrounded by days, it feels like the night
Surrounded by peace, it's always a fight
No perfection, our affection isn't worth the time
My emotion and devotion doesn't feel as right
Operating in her dreams now we're both lunatics
Hoping one day we'll be lovers, making me feel sick
Losing sight of what I want is now a problem, oh
All I wanted is to love her, now I've lost control
After all that we have been through, it can never change
After all that we have been through, it should never change
A moment with her
A moment with her
A moment with her
A moment with her
A moment with her
A moment with her
Surrounded by love, you feel alone
Surrounded by lies, you know you're alone
Surrounded by days, it feels like the night
Surrounded by peace, it's always a fight
Surrounded by love, you feel alone
Surrounded by lies, you know you're alone
Surrounded by days, it feels like the night
Surrounded by peace, it's always a fight
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When the winds of storms blow cold
Everything left will turn to stone
And after all, I've lost control
But I'm fine
And after all is said and done
I know it can't be won...
Harmony dissonance, harmony dissonance
Harmony resonance, harmony resonance will sing
Harmony...
Harmony...
Harmony...
Harmony...
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Anastasia, why did you leave?
To go where no one knows...
People always say, they don't know where
The people... where's the people
Anastasia, you were so lovely
Never lost the world
Between you and me, you and me, oh
I wish you would come back
Come back to me...
Wish you would come back
Come back to me...
I wish you could stay and be
with me, Anastasia
Anastasia... oh...
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TBA
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By the dried-up stream, we slit our throats and dreamed
When the buildings burned, was it some concern?
Mother laid in bed, what was it she said?
Gather all your worldly jewels and scatter them like fools
Don't you make a fuss, days so perilous
When the day is done, we'll ride... who cares what we find?
Another misspent night, we thought we got it right
The driver lost the wheel, the ice turned into steel
We shivered like refugees way down on our knees
By the dried-up stream, we slit our throats and dreamed
When the buildings burned, was it some concern?
Mother laid in bed, what was it she said?
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These withered hands
Have dug for a dream
Sifted through sand
And leftover nightmares
Over the hill
A desolate wind
Turns shit to gold
And blows my soul crazy
The end
O the end
We live again
O I grow weary of the end
O hungry days
The footsteps of fools
Gazing alone
Through sex-painted windows
Dredging the night
Drunk libertines
Stink like a colognes
From the newfangled wasteland
The end
O the end
We live again
O I grow weary of the end
Love is a plague
In a mix-match parade
Where the castaways look so deranged
When will the children learn
To let their wildernesses burn
And love will be new never cold and vacant
These withered hands have dug for a dream
Sifted through sand and leftover nightmares
The end
Of the end
We live again
Oh I grow weary of the end
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I've been down this road many times
and I've seen many things, I won't lie
But to call themselves human
After all I have seen - a disgrace to all of humanity
I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
To claim their derision - is a goal
is no better than the men who hold us so
I think they know they can't be anymore than they be
so they lie and say it's what I've wanted to see
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
To take me away from this world
would be a blessing in disguise
(instrumental break)
Take me back - I want to go home
They will stop the show, they'll stop the show
and I have no sympathy for Circus Freaks...
and I have no sympathy for Circus Freaks...
and I have no sympathy for Circus Freaks...
and I have no sympathy for Circus Freaks...
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
AND I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR CIRCUS FREAKS
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Earlier this year, I released "The Gunsmoke Sessions", a nigh-complete collection of the recordings I had done for my 2016 album Gunsmoke, including but not limited to alternate mixes and isolated elements, unused takes, completely unreleased (and often unfinished) songs, and so on and so forth. It was a fun little romp going through the archives and finally cleaning house!
So I thought I would do it again for the 5th anniversary of another 2016 release: Chemistry! Included in this "Chemistry Sessions" release are pretty much the same things as the Gunsmoke one, i.e. an assortment of alternate mixes, unreleased songs and other fun trinkets.
Everything has been remastered to get rid of all that dodgy compression that I put over the final master tracks, so you can enjoy the original mix of Chemistry with new life breathed into it! The same goes for every additional track as well.
You might notice a couple of these tracks claim to be from 2017, which might be a bit odd since Chemistry was released in December of 2016, but I have gone ahead and included one or two early album sessions from the beginning of 2017 to round out these recording sessions. Maybe it's "cheating", but I felt that they were more appropriate here than on the never-coming-out "Another Ocean Sessions". Such is life!
Although I have different reasons for it this time, I've once again opted not to include the 2020 remix of Chemistry in this release. If you want to listen to that, you'll have to either buy it separately or you can always pull it up on streaming.
And that concludes my foreword. Please enjoy this release!
released December 25, 2021
Isaac Riley - Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals, Organ, Game Boy, Synthesizers (Various), Vocoder, Mellotron, Slide Guitar, Frippertronics, Production
All* compositions on this release written by Isaac Riley. All recordings by Isaac Riley.
Album artwork by Isaac Riley.
*with exception to tracks 8, 13 and 14, written by Brian May (8) and Beck Hansen (13, 14)