When Did The Dark Invade Your Heart

by Ian Tasker

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"When Did The Dark Invade Your Heart" is the second song I have co-written with my great friend Neil Morton - following on from the lockdown inspired "World That Cannot Touch" that featured on my first album "Losing Track Of Time" which was released in 2021.

Once again the genesis of the song came from Neil, who provided the lyrics, leaving me to dive into Logic Pro to create the music and performance. I played the guitars and bass and provided the vocals, (heavily assisted by Flex Pitch!), with the rest of the instruments digitally created.

The subject matter and music are both rather gloomy but hopefully captures the worrying state of the world at the moment.

Neil explains: “A certain world leader is not mentioned by name but he is the obvious peg. The lyric is about tyranny and tyrants in general, and the misery their obsession with power and twisted ideology inflict on the innocent and peace-loving.”

"When Did The Dark Invade Your Heart" will also feature on my upcoming third album "Ghosts In The Attic", which will be released just as soon as I have recorded enough songs. I'm slowly getting there!

In the meantime just click on the album icons on the right-hand side of this page to listen to my two previous albums. Any comments or words of encouragement (or abuse) are welcome!

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WHEN DID THE DARK INVADE YOUR HEART
(Words by Neil Morton)

We'll never really know you
What you think and if you sleep
How does it feel to turn
A world of hope into grief?

We don't believe in monsters
But the pages of history do
This land of drones and bones
A hell on earth down to you

When did the dark
When did the dark
When did the dark
Invade your heart?

Do you hear the cries of the old
Their tears as free as they once were
Whatever gods speak to you
Dare not betray their despair

Tyranny was your destiny
Peace an imaginary enemy
Dreams ground into dust
By a twisted ideology

When did the dark
When did the dark
When did the dark
Invade your heart?

Every time we turn on the news
A long table with a short fuse
Every time we turn on the news
A long table with a short fuse
Blink first and we all will lose

When did the dark
When did the dark
When did the dark
Invade your heart?

credits

released March 29, 2024
Words by Neil Morton
Music by Ian Tasker

Vocals, guitars and bass by Ian Tasker
Other instrumentation by Logic Pro

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Ian Tasker Sherborne, UK

Hi - Thank you for visiting my site.

A retired journalist from Sherborne in Dorset, the lockdown gave me the time to finally record some of the songs I wrote decades ago - together with a few new ones.

"It's Later Than You Think" - released on 22nd September 2023 - is my second album, following on from 2021's "Losing Track Of Time"

Give me a listen and feel free to message me your comments.
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