Anastasia's former band One Wing Left was active in Oxford, UK, from 2013 to 2016. Midazolam Daze was released on February 14, 2016 as part of the album The Media Without a Voice.
Lyrics and melody, Anastasia Gorbunova. Music and performance, One Wing Left. Recorded and mixed by Steve Geezer Watkins at Woodworm Studios, mastered by Tim Turan of Turan Audio.
Anastasia Gorbunova – lyrics, vocals
John Puplett – guitars
Sean Foxley – bass
Arun Dhanjal – drums
Maiquel Martini - creative consulting
Lyrics
I’m not a hallucination
Give me the support of the nation
Drowning in promises and wasted ideals
You never won the election
Walk into your stolen office
With the cynicism of a nuclear warhead
Your broken toys are scattered around
But you don’t even notice
But the media without a voice
Only feed us Midazolam daze
And the only defense is your mind
Keep it sharp and ablaze
And like salt to the brain of the insane
I only guard the proverbial time
But you can’t rape the magic out of me
The magic is mine
Yet there’s still beauty in freedom
However meek the idea
Political prostitution
But nothing is ever hidden
Just take your hand off the handle
You’ll drive us back to the eighties
Then we can drink ourselves senseless
There’s no respect for a vandal
But the media without a voice
Only feed us Midazolam daze
And the only defense is your mind
Keep it sharp and ablaze
And like salt to the brain of the insane
I only guard the proverbial time
But you can’t rape the magic out of me
The magic is mine
I’ve got political power
For your crumbling tower
And I’m creating a problem
For your pathetic solution
I bet on public exposure
Of your fragile composure
When you assault people’s treasure
It comes back measure for measure
But the media without a voice
Only feed us Midazolam daze
And the only defense is your mind
Keep it sharp and ablaze
And like salt to the brain of the insane
I only guard the proverbial time
But you can’t rape the magic out of me
The magic is mine
