The Clusterbusters Song

[Dallas Denny]

I haven't posted anything about this ongoing project for a few years!

For context, these verses came together many years ago (2015 if I remember correctly) in the span of a few hours.....a clusterhead from Cali put up a post in one of the Facebook clusterhead support groups explaining that he'd written the first verse (to the tune of "Sound of Silence" in the style of the group "Disturbed"......he challenged the group to collectively write the remaining verses.  I had the privilege of watching as another 7 verses were added to the thread over a few hour time frame!

So, I copied it all down and over the past 10+ years I've played with it, taking the liberty of rewriting in some cases to make the words fit the tune better, and reducing it to 4 verses which I actually (attempted) to sing at our 2019 patient conference in Dallas!  But try as i may, I never could come up with a 5th verse to match up with the original tune.

At this past years patient conference (in Dallas once again) I shared the lyrics with a longtime Facebook friend who lives in Bermuda who loved it and told me he had a good mate who might be able to record it for me when I figured out a last verse!

When I got back home from the conference I was feeling inspired and reached out to a few folks for input and finally came up with the last verse.....which wound up being the 3rd verse and the original 3rd became the 4th.

So, fast forward to today.....my Bermuda friends mate has had the lyrics and a backing instrumental that I found on YouTube but as yet he's not come thru....now I've begun the process of going to individual small recording studios in my area area, relating the story to them, and hoping they might have worked with a vocalist that could pull off a "Disturbed" version....no luck thus far and I'm thinking I'm gonna have to drive down to big D but fortunately I know a guy with a studio down there where I recorded years ago....

Anyway, that's the backstory, hoping to have a wrap on this project by this year's conference.....I've sent it to the Boss and he sez we can post it on clusterbusters YouTube channel...

Hello Clusters my old friend

You've come to haunt me once again

You rudely wake me while I'm sleeping

My nose is running and my eye's weeping

And the demon

that was planted in my brain

Still remains

I feel the pound

Then shadows




From restless dreams I wake alone

From the pain I rock and moan

Search thru darkness for the table lamp

As I whimper with a cranial cramp

Then my eye was stabbed

In a flash with a red hot knife

I cried in fright

I felt the pound

Then shadows




Over many year's I saw

One hundred doctors, maybe more

Doctors listening without hearing

Doctors treating but not healing

Doctors writing scripts

That seemed like living hell

And nothing helped

Erase the pain

Of Clusters




The unafflicted cannot know

The shadows like a cancer grows

Hear my screams that they might teach you

Feel my pain that It might reach you

And my tears

Just like acid raindrops fell

It's bloody hell

'exquisite pain

Of Clusters



Then I busted, fought and stayed

Of the beast I'm not afraid

And the Beast lashed out his warning

Feel the burning and the pain swarming

And the Beast said your head

Will be bouncing off the sheetrock walls

I KICKED HIS BALLS!

He feels the pound

Then shadows.......

[Craigo]

Dude I tried to do this some time ago to this very song!!! Good choice of song for it man. You'd be able to achieve this with AI somehow if you were open to using it for this - there are some amazing open source generators floating around on Github that I had bookmarked to circle back and look at this again. If you want me to jump on and add this to list of projects I'd be more than happy to investigate for you. Let me know bro!

[Dallas Denny]

@Craigo Hey bud, answered your Facebook message regarding this thread but going to go ahead and provide an update here!

So, this past Sunday around 9:30 i was googleing.....music stores, recording studios ect, and came across a number for an audio/video producer based in Sherman, Texas which is about 25 miles south of me.

Called the number expecting to get a machine and leave a message and instead the dude answered and I was so surprised I couldn't get any words out for a few seconds!! Lmao!

Long story short version, we really hit it off, enjoyed a long chat, and we're gonna get together and talk about this project next week over coffee!!  He's been a audio/video producer for 40 years but got into it because he's a singer/songwriter!!  He shared a cut of his that actually charted and he has got the vocal chops to do the song justice.....I'll find out next week if I can afford him but as I said we really hits it off, he knows I'm an old fart, I shared a song I recorded 35 years ago, told him about clusters and how the lyrics came to be and got the vibe that he'll be reasonable so I'm keeping my fingers crossed!!  Well, that wasn't very feckin short!  But wait, there's more....

When I apprised Bob about this development he told me a rapper from the UK had emailed him about a song he'd written about clusters and psychedelics.....Bob the said "maybe we can make an album"....told him we could name it "The Busting Fusterclucks"!!  

And...that's a wrap folks!!

DD