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I need a pen to write down what you said
You have a way with words like nobody else
Like nobody else
I want to get a better view
(What did you say)
I said I want to see things a little better
I'm a big fan of how you write your letters…
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The last wood of the season burning
Another winter - see you on the other side
After everything has died
The last leaves of the season falling
Soon the air will be filled with dark and doubt
And the fire's going out
The last night of…
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The final Song for my 2023 RPM challenge!! Dusted off my acoustic guitar (and blistered my fingers) to get this one done. Phew! I love Latin rhythms and so I found a beat and jammed it up. Thanks again to anyone who listens -it's really fun…
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Hey y’all let’s go tanning, under the new fake sun
Let’s spin the brand new single, if you can’t hide we run
From the safety of knowing
Look outside it is snowing
Who knew it got so cold, who knew it got so cold,
And now I caught the…
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I like Bad Religion. The first album I heard, I remember thinking that it was amazing that there was a smart punk band. Also, I like the way that their songs could work with an acoustic guitar, and still stand.
I thought this had a similar…
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When I was a boy, I would ring my nan on the telephone
Numbers in the holes
Spin it round then let it go
Nowadays..
I carry a phone in my pocket
Oh stop it!
Oh where will it end?
When I was a lad
Used a notepad when I wrote thank you…
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One of the first songs I wrote for the album. The lyrics are stream of conscience that I don't think mean anything at all. I don't know, maybe they do.
It ends the album purely because the lyrics say "It's over..."
* Disclaimer: I understand…
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My 90's punk attempt. Interrupters/Rancid feel.. What does any of that have to do with Mark? Not a gosh darn thing... I just liked the name A Relative Term.
* Disclaimer: I understand that most of the songs on this album are pitchy and hard…
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The most non meta song on the record. This one is about a women I knew once. Sought the attention from everyone. Would burn you the moment you didn't agree with her. Her name happens to be Angie and really thought she was everyone's saviour…
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I feel the keys and pop feel of this one screams of Tim's influences.
Like if we both listened to the same song, this would be my take away vs his.
Lyric content? You guessed it... Meta.
* Disclaimer: I understand that most of the…
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Yacht rock.
Every time I see your smile
I feel like I’ve come home
And every time you stay a while
Is the best day that I’ve known
You’re the one that lights my way
Brings brightness to my day
And I just have to say
Don’t want it…
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A large portion of this record was written with my friend Wilsun in mind. If anything, this is an album to amuse him. To ensure I achieved that goal, I tried to write a song that reminded me of "Life In A Northern Town", although it actually…
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I tried to write a song that sounded sort of like Peter Gabriel. I'm not sure how close I got, but Megan and Jarrett absolutely killed it on this tune.
I can see you in my mind
Like a dream I can’t forget
I’m reaching out to touch you
But…
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Janette Salisbury vocals
taken none of my good years, darling
left me with more of the same
i will not ask you to give up nothing
there’s nothing left to explain
50 years and i’m dragging bottom
and live among the debris
whatever…
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Janette Salisbury vocals
we’re starving children, left alone
knocking on the door, but no one’s home
how many days have we been here
how any nights in the cold
praying that someone will answer
save our souls, save our souls…
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I was thinking this was going to be the longest song, but then the next song happened.
Anyways, title says it all. Don't let this be what you judge my abilities on. I can do better. Just go listen to my other albums, but maybe after you finish…
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Sometimes you listen to a Peter Murphy song and then ask ChatGPT to help you write a song. Sometimes you end up with this. You wouldn't believe the lyrics I left out.
Goths on the beach, all dressed in black,
Heading for the waves, and…
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Don't let it be said that I've forgotten my love of R.E.M.
Dream of a life that’s never been seen
A world of possibilities, a place in between
A place of shadows, a place of light
A place of secrets, hiding in the night
Oblique, oblique…
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Song #5 for RPM 2023 - half way to the completion of the album! Wrote this after a very long late night walk of meditation.
And the rain came down
It wouldn’t stop
As we made our way to the mountain top
And the rain came down, the rain…
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Were you guys aware that I'm a Beatles fan? Because, well.... I am.
I don't want you to come too close
I don’t need you to break the rules
Don't try to play my game
It’s not what you should do
I don’t think we can be friends
I don…
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"Always (Again Remix)" recorded in February 2023 for the RPM Challenge.
New recording of an old song with different arrangements. Originally started as a joke in response to Tim (of Letter Seventeen) asking AI to write a song (not) about airplanes…
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A song to myself. I’ve often felt like an unnecessary appendage in the circles I end up in. I’ve had some real crazy experiences in my life, and I tend to exaggerate to try an instill the grandness I felt in each story. Sometimes, I’m annoying…
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Maggie’s beautiful, heartbreaking hymn to loved ones lost too soon.
The intense, somber feeling of loss, both individual and communal, and support in the room as the other 6 or 7 of us listened to Maggie and Sara Beth perform the first take…
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Here we go..Song 4 for my RPM challenge. This one was a blast to do because of its simplicity. It's a bit dark but with a hint of humour. I never thought I would need to return to nuclear allusions in a song - it isn't 1985...oh well.
They…
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Did you guys hear? There are SPY BALLOONS!!!!!
A view from above, floating so high
Watching as the world goes by
Silent and sleek, full of mystique
High altitude game of hide and seek
Flying high, floating in the air
You think you…
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Wait n See
Boudreau
Johnny was sixteen
The first time he died
New to the scene
No matter how hard he tried
He was caught in a down stream
On the wrong side of right
Crossed on the in-between
Cost him his life
But just This time…
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Composed entirely in ABC; I harmed no keyboards while making this album. Converted to MIDI and arranged in Reaper, mastered in mono on an iPhone 'cuz I seem to have forgotten how to in Reaper, damn it, and ran out of time.
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I don't even know you anymore.
You open your mouth, the words slip out
I’m shocked by what I hear
The differences couldn’t be more clear
Same scene, different views
With our eyes and on the news
And I’m not sure what to do
I don’t…
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I asked to robots to help me write a song in the style of Tom Waits.
Riding on a train to the edge of town
Where the night has just begun
People on the street with nowhere to go
Living hard and having fun
Everywhere I go there’s a song…
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Janette Salisbury vocals
sometime, tomorrow
leaving, leaving, leaving
fleeing, your sorrow
it’s tainted my soul
and heaven help me now
make me clean somehow
sometime, tomorrow
leaving, leaving, leaving
fleeing, your sorrow…
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The wife has gone to London on the train to see an old friend the kids are busy doing their own thing and I'm on my own down in the cellar and this one came out......
On our own
I don’t know what it is
The reasons I can not see
But there…
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Drums: Jorn Erdmann
Lead Guitar: Rich Clark
trust is not a word that's known
so many days i've spent alone
the time i've spent on alibis
so cautious of anothers lies
this thing inside is sleeping
don't fear it brings us hope…
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Cigarettes and Charcoal
Turpentine and Art School
Coffee Grinds and Bagels
Autumn Moon and Maples
Motorcycle Midnight
Sea, Warm Sand, and Sunlight
Bloody Mary Sundays
Dragging Ass on Mondays
Pumpkins, Pixies, Peppers
Long…
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Sam came up with the groove, and we just grabbed it and ran... All hail the great AI... all hail the great AI.
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RPM2023. February, the month of concessions. I didn't have the time to put into the original idea that I had for this year, so first concession, put that on the back burner and instead do something a little, or a lot, simpler.
A collection…
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Lovely to work with the talented Ms Daulby again...she had asked for a version of this super Beverly Craven classic and I was happy to oblige! Thanks to 13111y for his usual excellent tweaking and mastering......
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Written and recorded for a promo video for Jasper Guitar Company, LLC, a boutique guitar manufacturer based in Green Bay, WI.
Jasper guitars use bodies that employ unique, patented technology that increase sustain, enhance harmonic overtones…
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I originally recorded this track to test out settings on my EHX Grand Canyon delay/echo/looper in 2020. In late 2021, I had Jasper Guitar Company, LLC do a custom build for me that was a combination of their Olam and Deja VuDoo models. I call…
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Janette Salisbury vocals
hands on top of the table
feet are flat on the floor
eyes are locked on the moment
you never saw before
merely a chance encounter
maybe a sign from above
and you’ll never feel this way
any more…
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Apologies to Peter. Sorry for missing a line.
I tried another take but my hands gave out on me.
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When the kids are in bed
That’s the best part of the day
When the kids are in bed
What more can I say?
we're going to watch game of thrones
episodes till half past three!
we say but by a quarter past nine
Well we've all but fallen asleep…
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Drums: Kevin Leonard
Lyrics taken from the HBO series Station Eleven based on the novel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
i remember damage
escape
adrift in a strangers galaxy
i remember damage
escape
adrift in a strangers…
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Drums: Jorn Erdmann
get inside we're going
we'll drive all through the night
we'll find another morning
horizons out of sight
the highway calls and i'm going
no destination known
no one to tell
no deadlines
this time i'm…
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Drums: Jorn Erdmann
no distractions
just time to feel
these things inside
which hide and steal
the precious moments
through my day
what starts as fear
and ends this way
a second look
a breath within
to pause and feel
what…
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just a late winters night
still dark and cold
these thoughts in m head
dragging out tales untold
i dream again
of warmth and sun
we we together
were one
warm sun, a breeze , the ocean
no where to be for days
just you…
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drums: Jorn Erdman
lead guitar: Rich Clark
i wake in the gloaming
unsure of the time
is it evening or morning
i reach out to find
a light in the dark
that helps me to see
the news of the world
with some clarity
it comforts…
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drums: Jorn Erdman
i met her at the local
though we met a week before
house party in the summer
i was standing at the door
truth be told
i don't remember
that was the point back then
to have a memorable evening
you can't…
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Drums: Kevin Leonard
Lead Guitar: Rich Clark
a darkened stair
a shadow leans
the steps lead down
the music bleeds
through the door
there's life within
it opens up
the night begins
a stare a nod
familiar gaze
a drink…
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George is trying to build a tower but kitty's not helping...
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Castaway. The Tom Hanks Movie.
* Disclaimer: I understand that most of the songs on this album are pitchy and hard to listen to. I recorded all of the vocals on Feb 27 and 28th as single takes. Most of them stream of conscience nonsense.
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Here we stand beneath the sky
Take my hand as time rolls by
Here we stand, nobody else around
Did we land on solid ground?
Along the ledge
Side by side
So near the edge
Of the great divide
For Heaven's sake
I have no doubt
The steps…
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Another cold night in Harbortown
They gather in the snow with fresh tracks in their hands
After daylight has long gone down
They find the warmest room just like they always planned
Brothers in arms, another battle won
Raise a glass for…
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For Kristen...
We were immortal, you and I
Alongside my sea, beneath your sky
No need to fear tomorrow
Now I see our time was borrowed
I'll sit here rhyming by your side
And play till we see a lower tide
Lay out the course we'll travel…
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Tie your laces up and around
Step outside without making a sound
Just breathe in time with your feet touching down
Bird of prey way up in the sky
If you ran fast enough, could you fly?
Just breathe in time and pray for the high
Running…
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The sight of hands wringing, a worrying glance
you feel pins and needles, seems all left to chance
When I lose control of, the marbles and pegs
It’s all an illusion, all in your head – if you don’t mind
The depth of the panic, a bargain…
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(Inspired by an actual posting for a hornet's nest for sale on Craigslist)
Bored and surfing for some brand new toys or vintage microphones
But this one’s gonna take me down the rabbit hole
What is going through their mind sometimes you…
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Driving in we cross the golden gate
Heading forward and then back again
Here’s the spirit of the old cross streets
Won’t be staying but I’m sure we’ll be, around around around
We knew everything and were so sure of
Pockets full of triptiks…
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Made it through another year
Still don’t know why I’m here
Make some music drink some beer
Sounds alright to me
Loved ones leave
Friends come then go
Everything can change so quick
Don’t let the bullshit bring you down
Just enjoy this…
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A paper empire, built off our sweat, a too well traveled trail.
A river’s rapid flow that carries you, well beyond the pale.
Now you’ve gotten what you need
Fairy tales forgotten
And you taken what you please
And paid us next to nothing…
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Dust of the needle ground to dull
The cast of the street light drawn so pale
Motion is timeless, impossible speed
Contained in the rows we planted the seed
Counting my fingers, an abacus sort
Pointing my index out
You’re so warm it…
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RPMers I salute you
Ice ice everywhere like a skating rink
I don’t wanna go nowhere
I don’t wanna think
I’ll just stay inside press record and sing
RPM is here
it’s 2am what else to do
Make up rhymes strum a chord
Find a good groove…
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Piece together phrases missing letters
Sharpening your senses like my scissors
Prime the Trojan horse and battering ram
Find an empty vault instead of the plans
Like a magazine, cut up lines to feed
A ransom note for you to
Read and then…
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Polishing the silver tongue and straightening the tie
Born to wear the lions mane and mingle with the vile
White Mercedes on the lawn the party’s in the back
And by the time the guests are gone your eyes are painted black.
Racing to the…
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Everyone loves a tribute to The Cure
I’m sitting here in the dark , Thinking how we fell apart
I can’t shake the feeling of your touch
Remembering the way you smiled, And how you said you’d stay a while
But now you’re gone and I’m here all…
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Song 7 for my RPM challenge. Thanks to anyone who listens :)
words of wisdom
songs of pride
try your best but you
can’t live the other side
keep it coming
try not to know
remember one day
we will reap just what we sow
do your…
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Okay, RPM Song 3 finished. It's a weird song melodically speaking (yup, that's actually intentional lol). Oddly, it took an extremely long time to produce this one and my eyes are now very blurry. I guess this is an "urban" song (though I…
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It's probably not a huge surprise that someone who chose a moniker evoking a hyperactive bigfoot would be a fan of b-movies, this is my punk rock love letter to them.
VERSE
I ought to go to bed Instead I’m watching z-grade creatures
Menacing…
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Very likely the last song I will ever record. I wanted to do something a little different.
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time would like
to have a word
it waits out
in the rain
it's bleeded dry
time passes by
not doing anything
the time has come
SOME will be done
day after seamless day
time and again
no start no end
the time it wastes away…
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Here's a new track called "Slow and Steady"
It goes like this
||: Em | C7 | Em | C7 | Em | G | D | F :||
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I keep searching for a sign
From the other side
To keep my hope alive
Trying to walk the line
God knows how hard I've tried
Don't know if I'll survive
Gotta let it slide
Man, these are trying times
If you attempt to fly
You wind up…
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Saying Sorry ....What a drag!
Saying Sorry
I ain’t no innocent
I don’t pretend to be
I’ve always wanted to go through this life hoping just float free
But then today it all went wrong
Everybody seems to hate me
When I’m just trying…
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This is a live cut from an NPR radio broadcast back in 1988 while my Irish Trad group Scartaglen was on one of its first east coast tours. Found recently on a cassette tape. Musically this was one of my favorite periods in the history of the band…
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When the Wheels fall off your wagon and you find yourself far from what you planned.
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Song #9 for my RPM album. Back to using my bass as the back bone for this one. Vocals were recorded in one shot like a live recording (not easy to catch my breath in between phrases sometimes...eek). Made up a harmony for the last chorus...that…
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Song 9# for my RPM 2022. I don't know how it happened, but I ended up with a bit of an alternative quasi-delta blues here. I walk a lot of country roads at night so..... The harmonies were fun. Thanks to anyone who listens! Onward…
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Another track from the same Gakken/SMM/RFX system as the previous one. Also submitted to Sound-In, but this time "Conducting Ourselves" 23/2 - 2/3/2023.
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Whatever twisted fate befell those contaminated by the orange mutagen, they began to wriggle, writhe, and squirm their way from the subway, swamps, and sewers, to spread their glowing cheer.
Freesound Samples Used :
192497_murraysortz_bubbles…
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A collab between myself and FAWM user @dreamscuba
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Song 8# of my RPM Album. I love Persian scales and so I wanted to play with that a bit here. I managed to do my own finger snapping through the whole tune and didn't use a loop - I'm known for my rather loud snapping ability.
In another…
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Written with John Bennett - Find more John Bennett music here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB8kZ_1SeK4wsNtEoYwlEzCbGVt0XA6ny
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Walking On A Winter’s Day
Sunlight glistening on freshly fallen…
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Found a really old one, must be at least 15 years old, the Good Wife giving me help on the vocals ......
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Music and vox by Gordon, lyrics by me:
That remind-me song was playing
On the juke box in the bar
And on my way to work today
On the radio in the car
Reminds me how you wounded me
And it sure brings back the pain
But I can’t seem…
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Music and performance by Gordon Todd, lyrics by me:
Meditation
2023©John Schofield
Once upon a broken heart
When my life had come apart
I searched for what could cure me
Was it a cottage by the sea?
What could mend the broken me…
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Every day, every day, every day
Every Day, Every Day, Every Day
Look for pleasure and always be kind
Every day, every day that passes by
Every day, every day, every day
Every day, every day, every day
You’ll be remembered by what you…
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Track 9 of this years Rpm challenge 2023 covering the concept of age and the effect on poor old Reg…
The blue of the sky slowly succumbs to the breeze
Those little cloud start to grey and look in need
The leaves start to fall away from…
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Track 8 of this years Rpm challenge 2023 covering the concept of age and the effect on poor old Reg...
Conscious of the time as life just passes by
I’m Conscious of every hour that goes on the fly
Every second counts
don’t waste the day…
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