Ha avuto un buon successo come voce dei PlanetFunk e con i The Servant.Il cantautore londinese Dan Black ha tentato anche la carta del disco solista “UN”,distribuito in tutto il mondo nel 2009/2010.Non è andata bene in termini di vendite mentre le recensioni sono state in buona parte positive.Da noi arriva solo ora il singolo “Symphonies” nella versione con il rapper Kid Cudi che in pratica è un mash-up con la base di “Umbrella” di Rihanna e la soundtrack del film di Carpenter “Starman”.Ho apprezzato l’idea ma nella mia memoria non ne rimarra’ traccia.
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TESTO(della versione cantata solo da Dan Black)
I can’t disguise I was hypnotised
Lost a track, struggled back
I wanted easy stuff to please me
Something in the dark began to squeeze me
Seen it, there, been there in the mirror
Totally focused, no hocus pocus
Dare I give in to this thing gripping my skin
To win, thinking how to add
The lights of a car go by in a stream
Seems like I stand pretty much unseen
But I open my eyes and beams
Come out
(RIT) :
Gimme, gimme, symphonies
Gimme more than the life I see
Score adds up
Angels play
Let my lonliness gets blown away
Gimme, gimme, symphonies
Gimme more than the life I see
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I lie down in the dust just under your eye
A scrap of paper, thin as vapour
Filling my clothes like smoke
A couple of the wires in my heart are broke
I throw, I miss, something, nothing
Dreams, schemes, moments wasted
Taste that tasted
Fate I’m fated
Re-edited again then copy, pasted
The lights of a car go by in a stream
Seems like I stand pretty much unseen
But I open my eyes and beams
Come out
Gimme, gimme, symphonies
Gimme more than the life I see
Score adds up
Angels play
Let my lonliness get blown away
Gimme, gimme, symphonies
Gimme more than the life I see
When I wanna quit, I suffocate it
I chew repelicious, stress repetitious
Vicious, I’m one outside you
Up above the streets on the DCY-er
Higher, fire in my guts
In a rut, but what I’ve got
Is in a can, no other human
But I do get lonely, scared I’m phoney
As
The lights of a car go by in a stream
Seems like I stand pretty much unseen
But I open my eyes and beams
Come out
Gimme, gimme, symphonies
Gimme more than the life I see
Score adds up
Angels play
Let my lonliness get blown away
Gimme, gimme, symphonies
Gimme more than the life I see
Gimme, gimme symphonies
Gimme more than the life I see
Voto 6/10
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