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I don't know if I love this track or hate it. It was done deliberately tongue in cheek and without filter along with that "It's a Laahndan fing" accent. At the same time it ended up capturing a sentiment of an era like nothing else I had written, and I had tried. It's about the 90s drug and club culture that I had grown up in. The lyrics make that obvious. It's also naive and crushingly iffy, but I publish it here because it terrifies me to do that, and I am curious what it is I fear.

It was recorded around 2002 or 2003 and the mix lost in 2004.

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"Dolphins"

Dolphins, the smartest fish in the sea,
That's what I think of when I think of you and me.
We've got one life and one life only,
Not afraid to show our hearts on our sleeve,
Not afraid to ask what becomes of you and me.

I'm getting older now and the lyrics start to fail me,
But I light a candle in the dark and then I see clearly,
Right through to the other side,
Remember over there? Yeah, that's a place we have been.

Nightclubs, hard drugs, high times,
Seeing a strange kind of reality, opened our eyes,
We knew we'd found our spiritual family,
We wondered what it all could mean,
Didn't want to leave, didn't want to leave.

It's okay to stop sometimes, lie down and wonder,
Just how we're going to get ourselves free,
They say the power of death is some kind of release,
They say the power of love will set us free,
And finally, I am starting to see what they mean.

Dolphins, the smartest fish in the sea,
That's what I think of when I think of you and me,
Thoughts fly free over the sea,
When I let go to this,
I enter the dream.

I've got a question for you,
For the times when you are flying high,
When you understand what I am saying and you know why,
It's like we forget this place we've been,
When we let down our guards, relax completely.

I remember those times,
I see it still alive in your eyes,
Because some part of you remains untainted and clean,
And I tell you this because you've always been a true friend to me.

Written by Mark DK Berry - 2003

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from The Lost Little Indian Mixes - Album, released December 31, 2004

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Mark DK Berry Australia

Music Producer (From UK now in Australia)

Produces in genres from EDM, to Chillout, to Indie, to Neo- Classical.

For music videos & DJ sets see both YT links below.

D&B collaborations with Royalston released on Hospital Records, Med School, & Bad Taste Records.

All non-record company releases are on bandcamp

If you are in the Fediverse find me @markdkberry@mstdn.social ... more

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