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

[xBoss]

Let's rip one with Ai  I can def supply a couple...

I'll only post them if you say it's OK. 
 

Edited May 26 by xBoss

[Dallas Denny]

On 5/25/2026 at 8:54 PM, xBoss said:

Let's rip one with Ai  I can def supply a couple...

I'll only post them if you say it's OK. 
 

Hey @xBoss!!  Thanks for the input bud!  Unfortunately,  ive explored that avenue of thought unsuccessfully!

Downloaded ChatGPT and played with it for awhile but "no joy"!  The problem is copyright and artist protection prevents the bot from creating a song using original lyrics against a copyrighted tune so it was a deadend!!

I'd sure love being able to get that front guy from disturbed to do me a solid and sing it and the group play it but that ain't gonna happen so I'm back to the drawing board for now!!

[xBoss]

I did rip a couple in the "style" of that disturbed song, not too bad.

[Dallas Denny]

@xBoss hmmmmm....are you able to upload them here?

[xBoss]

On 5/28/2026 at 4:34 PM, Dallas Denny said:

@xBoss hmmmmm....are you able to upload them here?

I can link to it. I have many versions, still not happy with the results yet...

https://suno.com/song/624b389d-4b0d-4fe9-b875-356c67964ad0

[Dallas Denny]

@xBoss.....I just listened to the 1st verse and I freaking love it so far dude!!!  Right on!!!

[Dallas Denny]

@xBoss well dude, as far as I'm concerned, you nailed it!!!  I'm not a "metal" kinda guy in my old age but I think it's "out fecking standing" as my DI would say in bootcamp!!!!

I would still love to hear it done to a disturbed version of Sound of Silence....the live late night TV show recording, not the studio version.....but this is really good imo!!

[xBoss]

Ai is insane. I have been coding websites and stuff since 1986 and I cannot believe the tech. It gets a bad rep but wow brother. I can rip this song 100 ways with it. I love metal and disturbed and I'm hoping to get a good one. So far just using the free model, the 20 a month one is much better. It's fun to play with!

[Dallas Denny]

@xBoss....Rip on brother!!  I sent the link to our fearless leader BobW yesterday evening!   His response was "Holy crap, we need to talk about this!!" Lol!

Ima relinquish the completion of this project to you brother...."this mission, if you choose to take it....".....lmao!!

I was working on the most advanced airborne computer system the Marine Corp had at the time in 66.....had a final top secret security clearance and cudn't talk about it for 10 years after I was discharged!!  But this stuff in today's world boggles my feeble old mind!!

DD

[FunTimes]

Nice work guys. 

[number1buster]

Hey guys,
First off, many thinks to Denny for all of his great work on this. I love the lyrics (I've been a "lyrics guy" all of my long life). I especially how the lyrics take that well written turn at the end.
xBoss thank you for your work on this. Fantastic.

As to an album, this may be something that we could build on over time. I've tried putting a Clusterbusters Band together for years. It's been a dream project of mine for,,,,,25 years? It's just always been a difficult thing to do, getting people together. I've tried getting a group together at our conferences. We also did have one very good musician put together an album (wrote all the lyrics and music) and recorded it and we shared it about. This was many years ago. Unfortunately, as happens in our community, he ended up taking his own life shortly after making the recordings. The whole story was devastating to me as we had become very close working with him and his caregiver for several years prior to all of this. Our healthcare system let him down. He also had French citizenship and had to fly back and forth to France to get "free" healthcare. Traveling 5000 miles to see your doctor is not free healthcare but cheaper than our system.
Anyway, the recordings were difficult for me to even listen to. None of the songs were as personal as this version you've pulled together. It was more of a version to play while busting to help everyone "feel good" for set and setting.

I had also put together a 6 disc set of songs to use during a busting session. Nothing original, just songs I thought would work well during the stages of a 4-5 hour busting session. I just put them on CDs and passed out sets to a lot of friends. So, you can see that music is my safe place. I've noted in my will that my grandson gets my vinyl collection. I've been collecting since 1966-67.

Maybe we eventually have a Lyrics contest? Maybe Denny can write an album of lyrics, LOL.

So, can we please move forward with this? I don't write lyrics or music and I'm not up on how to use AI for something like this. Here are some of my thoughts.
1. We would need to make sure that we follow copyright laws.
2. I do have some contacts in the music industry.
3. I've played and done some work on CHATgpt. I had one of the paid levels for a time but cancelled the subscription (more of a time issue than a $ issue.)
4. I believe that there may be a better service for this than CHATgpt. Maybe Claude?
5. I am willing to pay for a level of service that would be best to use for this project with whichever program you guys decide is the best.
6. Also, whatever other expenses end up being needed.
7. We have some events coming up that I'd love to introduce this work to our community.
8. If we (you) end up wanting to distribute this, in some way, to the community and our supporters and even "the world" it may end up being quite time consuming for someone. That would be fantastic but we'd possibly need to compensate someone for their time and effort. We have been working on opening up a Clusterbusters store for a long time but it's a lot of work for a non-profit and requires a lot of additional accounting costs. It's possible to add this to a package that we may want to either give away as a special welcome gift to new members, or give away as a prize for our fundraising efforts. I would love to feature this and promote it as much as possible. There are a lot of possibilities and I'd love to hear your ideas and would not want to do anything that would be disrespectful to you guys or the community or a bad look for Clusterbusters. So, I'd take all of your thoughts on moving forward and respect your desires, start to finish.
9. So, if any of you say, "I don't like that idea" then we don't do that.
10. Let me know how I can help. Expenses? I've got it. Contacts, I'm on it. Promotion, CB's got it.

Bob Wold