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Play Dead

Despite my lifelong love for heavy metal, I do have my guilty pleasures too. Somewhere in the early 90's I first heard about Bjork, a female singer from Iceland. I was immediately fascinated. She is mysterious, her music has a dark an melancholic feeling and really grabs me by the balls.

'Play Dead' is an anthemic song, so when I came up with the idea of this cover EP, Bjork came to my mind as a must-cover song. In my cover versions I always create lots of space for guitar solos, and as always Timo Somers blew me away with his parts. In some parts we replaced vocals by guitarsolos, with stunning results. Timo nails it completely by catching the emotions of the vocals, as all of his solos caught the intensity of the song as a whole.

A crucial role in the song is also with Hans Pieters who recorded a very catchy bassline, which adds a lot of groove to the song. Another proof that it was a good decision to handover the bass to him!

Play Dead

 

Darling, stop confusing me 

With your wishful thinking

Hopeful embraces 

Don't you understand?

 

I have to go through this

I belong to here where no one cares and no one loves

No light, no air to live in

A place called hate

 

The city of fear

 

I play dead

It stops the hurting

I play dead

And the hurt stops

It's sometimes just like sleeping

Curling up inside my private tortures

I nestle into pain

Hug suffering

 

Caress every ache


I Play Dead

I Play Dead

I Play Dead

I Play Dead stops the hurting

I Play Dead

I Play Dead stops the hurting

I Play Dead

I Play Dead stops the hurting

Dead

Dead

Dead

Dead



 

Chris Clancy - vocals

Timo Somers - lead guitar

Ron Coolen - guitar, drums, keyboards

Hans Pieters - bass

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Credits: David George Arnold, Bjork Gudmundsdottir, and John Joseph Wardle

Copyright Universal Music Publishing Limited and Sony/ATV Harmony

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