“Discotech” was written for one of my daughter’s music projects, as she was hating the lessons at school even though music meant everything to her. She had to come up with something genre--specific and chose disco, so I wrote and performed this on her behalf in the hope it would sound authentic.
A couple of years later I rediscovered it and wrote the lyrics and finally sang it about, for and to, her - especially the bit about not needing attention or expectations from others - with a little bit of me in there, as I wrote most of the lyrics on the way to work thinking about the weekend.
I would hope to find someone like Sophie Ellis Bexter, Moloko or Basement Jaxx for this, to give it the final delivery .I had great fun writing and performing the brass parts for this!
Lyrics
I’ve been working all week
I’ve had to live and give myself for money
I’ve been too tired to sleep
I felt like all the world wants something from me.
Now it’s time to break free
From the chains that hold me
Want to let myself go
There’s a place I can be
When I’m feeling lost and lonely
Gonna get myself down
To the discotec!
At the disco
Let it all go
At the disco
At the discotec!
We can all go
To the disco
Let yourself go
At the discotec!
If you knew me at all
You’d know that I’m not the type to think like that
I climb too high to fall
And now it’s time to bring it down, yeah, right back.
I found liberation
In my transformation
There’s a new way to be
I don’t need your attention
No lies and no expectations
Life can do it for me
At the discotec!
