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Piece of Me

by Simon Shackleton

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peace of mind, a piece of me rolling on viciously firefly pass me by love me like a dragonfly let me live let me be meet you by the wishing tree take my hand sing to me your bittersweet symphony shadow hills, shadow falls, painted on the bedroom walls a skeleton of light so soon ushers in the silver moon see beauty in the fire, in the flame try to tame, try to reign me in from spreading ever higher EVER HIGHER face engraved upon my soul, inner heat consume me whole branded with a burning heart that crumbles when we’re far apart like sparks dancing in the night red stars in the morning light let it grow let it spire haunt me like a funeral pyre see beauty in the fire, in the flame on the road again fever of the white lines, ignoring all the caution signs aimlessly, endlessly always be a part of me powerlines against the sky the dark eternal you & I red, blue, pink & gold rusting like forgotten souls
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all these strange ghosts ... in my head
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Soothe 04:42
Soothe, soothe me now ... 'cos I'm coming down and I don't know how
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Found a road, Far & Wide With side of hope & long-lost new pride Lighting the spirit of the lost life … Lighting the spirit of the next life Unknown path – need a guide To dial me back to the other side Dark & Deep To lose & hide Never wait, this time & tide Seeking heart, good old friend Finding the buzz of bliss As I near the end Memories come when I need The future’s in smiles, Been sowing that seed. Far & Wide
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Bet It All 05:41
When you have no move you do nothing. Some days I make 20 bets, some days I make none. There are weeks, sometimes months in fact where I don't make a bet at all because there simply is no play. So I wait, plan, marshall my resources, and when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make ... I bet it all.
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We Are Alone 04:51
We Are Alone Nobody's Watching
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watching from afar a starburst splits the night passionate & reckless jonesing for the fight, or flight, (or freeze) … don’t you bring me down, bring me to my knees this spirit’s growing stronger than you & they believe singing in the rain dancing in the sun and all this time the elemental journey’s just begun, you’re digging through the past with your key inside the whole … my shapes are wild abandon in this carnival of souls
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Where Embers Glow ... (oh)
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Afterglow 06:37
always going to try to fly higher than the desert sky past the point of turning back the crimson sunset fades to black in the afterglow of afterhours you are my break of dawn you are my fire raging on you are the shadow on the bedroom wall you are the sound of one & all in the afterglow of afterhours in the afterglow of afterhours
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Waterfall 04:55
When I hear the call I crawl inside your Waterfall.

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Piece of Me is a true labour of love. Written over a 4-year period whilst I was going through some extremely tough times personally, it's a rich & varied work that I'm extremely proud of. I hope you get a huge amount of pleasure from it.

“Shackleton’s music is machine-honed soul music, fractured digital missives from the heart of the rave, powered by an electronic pulse that, two decades after he first entered the public consciousness, is somehow pumping harder than ever”
[DJ Magazine]

"Piece of Me sets the bar high for the rest of the album, which doesn’t disappoint at all. Electronic albums have a tendency to be 25% singles and 75% filler. Not so here, Shackleton has produced an album that really gets under your skin. An album that you can feel as well as hear. "
[GetIntoThis - Album of the Month]

"Simon has expertly extracted the best elements of electronic music from the past thirty years and meshed them into a single, hypnotic song that worms its way into your head and sets your dopamine receptors on fire, spreading happy chemicals all over your brain, resulting in nothing short of euphoria."
[Love is Pop]

"The result of stepping off the dance music hamster wheel is the splendid, deeply personal yet gloriously accessible new album "Piece of Me", Shackleton's first under his own name. From the Giorgio Moroder-esque, vocoder-fuelled analogue throb of the title track, to the washed out, epic, sunkissed downtempo chill of "We Are Alone", to the shoegaze-influenced indie electronica of "Waterfall", it's a collection of work that seems about as far from the ultra-commercial world of EDM dance music as it is probably possible to get. It's as if the musician behind it decided to walk out into his own personal desert one day, and returned an entirely different creative creature.

"The peaktime electronic mayhem of his noughties ventures as Elite Force, is not entirely abandoned on "Pieces of Me". In fact, the barnstorming techno thriller "Bet it All" is classic Shackleton, all brooding tough-edged rhythms, big movie sample and a drop to have the bodies flying round the room. But elsewhere this is a more mature album, reflecting a freer, less club-focused period in the life of its creator."
[DJ Magazine]"

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released August 8, 2016

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Simon Shackleton Denver, Colorado

Simon Shackleton is a hugely prolific, award-winning musician, DJ, and Audio Artist with 28 successful years in the industry, under a number of different guises.

This page is dedicated to releases he's created under his real name.
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