For Chipper

  What We Gonna Do Without Him? by WM.BATES

WILLIAM BATES: GUITARS.KEYBOARDS.VOCALS. 
MARK PAYNE: BASS 
JOE JOGODKA: DRUMS

He's playing out his days
What we gonna do without him?
He's hanging 'em up, that's what he says
What we gonna do without him?

He's a dying breed, he stands alone
He's rounding third, he's heading home

They'll put his number on the wall
What we gonna do without him?
He'll be heading for the hall
What we gonna do without him?

He's a dying breed, he stands alone

He's rounding third, he's heading home

When the chips are down, he'll pull us through

What we gonna do without him?

See him in your memory, 'cause time is oh so cruel

What we gonna do without him?

He's a dying breed, he stands alone

See him rounding third, he's heading home

What We Gonna Do Without Him?

Words and Music by William Bates

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The Jester's Gesture: The Inception

THE POOL OF MEDB IN AN OAK TREE GLEN (EXPERIMENTAL MIX)


there's a treasured place
beyond yonder hill
in an oak tree glen
where time runs still

and a fire feigns light
warm with dark delight
incantations are read
...a communion with the dead

   pull back the string
   on your english longbow
   see the arrow sing
   whistle past all you know

legends linger long
an oral tapestry
and the weak shall be strong
and the blind shall see

feel the pull of fate
straight to the river's gate
love's current is awake
hurry now, don't you be late

   pull back the string
   on your english longbow
   see the arrow sing
   whistle past all you know

perhaps at runneymeade
perhaps in normandy
perhaps at land's end
perhaps in the hearts of men

it's the red moon night
it's the scar upon this land
it's the promise of the right
it's where you finally understand

   pull back the string
   on your english longbow
   see the arrow sing
   whistle past all you know

IN AN OAK TREE GLEN
WORDS AND MUSIC BY WILLIAM BATES
T21 MUSIC 2012

don't wanna die (in 2012)

ONE MORE TIME

ONE MORE TIME WORDS AND MUSIC BY WM.BATES WM.BATES.GUITARS.VOCALS.ELECTRONICA. MARK PAYNE.BASS

The Jester's Gesture (Acoustic Demo)

Into the Forest: Days i Knew

Cedar 55671 (a film noir) by Days i Knew

Unforgiven

Theme From Dreamland

The Miracle Mile

in a field, by a lake, near a town
where nobody seems to come around
you will find a road that goes
where spirits they are often found

   be sure to stop by the old oak tree
   whose branches bend to the scenery
   and linger there for just a little while
   before you walk the miracle mile

a covered bridge lies past the crest
some like it best, me, i find it rather odd
many have crossed at cost, thinking they
and they alone have seen the face of God

   be sure to stop by the old oak tree
   whose branches bend to the scenery
   and linger there for just a little while
   before you walk the miracle mile

the golden rods and the cat-tail fights, such a sight
the child you were laughs in the dusk
and your mother calls but you can't go
sad you know, but you know you must

   be sure to stop by the old oak tree
   whose branches bend to the scenery
   and linger there for just a little while
   before you walk the miracle mile

the miracle mile
words and music by wm.bates
t21music 2011

In C Major

Guitar Demo For New Album
Music by WM.BATES

There For You

  

Version One:  Vocals by Leah Edwards
Version Two:  Vocals by Wm.Bates

In this world and in these times
there for you...there for you
Through bitter tears and eyes laid blind
there for you...there for you

Come what may, we face the storm
For that day when the faceless have their form
Where dreams are real and worthy of the fight
Our flag still waves into the dying of the light

In your hands and in your secret thoughts
there for you...there for you
There is a gift that cannot be bought
there for you...there for you

Come what may, the heart so vast
It may be fragile but built to last
Where dreams are real and worthy of the fight
Our flag still waves through the dying of the light

The cradle rocks and the bell it tolls
there for you...there for you
The in between that forms all we know
there for you...there for you

Come what may, love still endures
Of that I know, Of that I'm sure
Where dreams are real and worthy of the fight
Our flag still waves into the gleaming twilight

THERE FOR YOU
WORDS AND MUSIC BY WM.BATES
T21 MUSIC 2011

Reverse Forward

REVERSE FORWARD

SUMMER REMIXES

SO MANY TIMES


LET THE CURTAIN CLOSE (TRACKING MIX)

Acoustic Demo in Mono

I Gotta Get Out of This Town



it's an april sky in a midnight cloak
my sins are washed away in a cloud of smoke
nerves are coiled like a restless snake
if this be a dream, pray God let me wake.

one day you're up
and then you're down
i gotta get out of this town.

once had it all but was too blind to see
all the angels in front of me
funny how time gives credence to the right
how distance makes even brighter the light.

REPEAT

it's a story told
a thousand times i guess...and:
maybe those on the road
can tell you the rest
maybe they can tell you the rest.

it's a match head flicker in the well
it's a charlatan with no more stories to tell
the sands have run out in your hourglass
it's a one way street with no room to pass

REPEAT

I Gotta Get Out of This Town
words and music by wm. bates
daysiknew music 2011

THE HEART IS STILL WILLING

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