"Ghost in the Machine" by David Kilpatrick

Ghost in the Machine

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Here's one for all of us leaving our traces on Internet - wherever we may be. Listen carefully. This uses one of my little Troubadour Blondel cittern-guitars in DADGAD tuning as accompaniment.

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David Kilpatrick

Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.

I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #5

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

David Kilpatrick

Rights

David Kilpatrick

Uploaded

November 24, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 5.4 MB • 128 kbps • 5:51

Story behind the song

I was trying out a little travel guitar; I had bought a dozen in from Romania to sell for friends. They are very pale in colour, new wood, and I was thinking 'ghost'. Tuned in DADGAD, this song began to emerge so I sat down at the iMac and finished it. I now sell two dozen of these little guitars every month, all over the world, made to my own specification and label.

Lyrics

One Sunday morning early she stepped out through the door
Without a single memory of who she was before
With just a little money and the clothing that she wore
She left behind the old world for the new

And still you hear her calling
Through flickering dots of phoshor
Like a dream you can't decipher
From beyond the cold blue ether
You feel her on the airwaves
You can taste her in the signal
Every wire and dish and cable
Holds the scent where she's been
If you search you know you'll find her
From your world she left behind her
But maybe all you'll find there
Is her ghost in the machine

In the city of the angels, in the street of fallen stars
She hooks the dreams of strangers from the stream of passing cars
She caught the flight for Venus but they landed her on Mars
When she left behind the old world for the new

In her chamber there's a camera and she leans towards the lens
If you seek her, you will find her with a million lonely men
Until clip is over, and the script begins again
Where she left behind the old world for the new