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Title suggested by a friend and my mind went from there. Its someone promising that this time it will be different.
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This time will be different
This time I'll be true
This time It'll be easy
This time I'll see it thru…
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I was watching a movie this Sunday morning and a snippet of "Its Been a Long, Long Time" from the 1964 move "Hello Dolly" played with the first words being "Kiss me once...." My muse, being weird like it is, goes "I can do something…
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Protest song against anti trans bill HB111 in Alabama's legislature and its sponsor rep. Susan DeBose...a republican of course.
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What is a woman
Oh what is a man
is it biology
is it God's plan
is it God's plan
Is…
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I'm angry these days at the state the US is in and how so many people are perfectly fine with stripping rights from those not like them or for religious reasons.
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Angry, were just Angry
We're So Angry
Just what did we…
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This came out of watching the movie "Wonka" the other night. It was orginally titled Wonka, but the song had other ideas of where to go on the lyrics and thus became "Fairy Tales" of which Wonka is one.
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Fairy Tales
Where…
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Not sure where this came from but the first line 'Just living my life one day at a time' popped into my head this morning. I'm sure, as the lyrics show, the anti trans rhetoric that pervades GOP legislatures weighs on my mind, heart…
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Needs reworking to remove Stripped drone/engine ... was enjoying myself too much!
Let the storm break
Let the storm break on me
When balance fails
Please stumble into me
Let the storm break
Let the rain fall hard on me
Not all days…
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I'm feeling pretty lovey lovey today so here's one for the valentines day....and my RPM Challenge album
Theres something in the way you make me feel
Lady you got something that I need
Don’t close the door cause I’m pretty sure its been decreed…
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ASSURANCE
INTRO:
You're my Assurance. You're my Assurance, LORD.
VERSE ONE: (Richard)
You laid a path for me before I was conceived,
You knew me by my name.
You laid Your life for me to show You love me,
And called me Your best friend…
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I have long loved this poignant classic track from Mike and the Mechanics....here is my rather different take on it....
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Feeling that something's looming
Why, I feel low sounds in my head that shouldn't be there
And when the storm it breaks
O'er the hill, 'bove the tree high
Crack and spark now to fade
Get inside
Leave home, keep dry
All around you is…
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It was Valentines day so my muse was like 'yeah, you gotta write one'. The first verse popped into my head as I was working in the morning had the lyrics done in about 15 minutes with rough chords and stuff in about 10 more. Recorded…
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Written by Jacques Roman Brel and Mort Shuman
Based on the tune of “Greensleeves.”
This is a rough demo recording for our Muskegon Area Bluegrass group.
Guitar - Brian Prentkiewicz
Vocal - Ted Dekker
Cello - Ted Dekker
Upright bass - Ted…
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ambient guitar noises recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
Focused on using the guitar pedal tools
Ibanez DE7 Echo/Delay
Line 6 DL4 MKII
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ambient guitar noises recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
Focused on using the guitar pedal tools
Ibanez DE7 Echo/Delay
Line 6 DL4 MKII
bonus track not included at Bandcamp link
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My Love Song
VERSE ONE: (Richard)
I choose today to sing a love song to You,
LORD, I love how You make me feel.
It’s a beautiful day 'cause I know I’m in Your thoughts,
There’s nowhere I’d rather be.
The thought of You makes me smile…
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Song 5 for RPM 2024. Sat at our piano for this one and got a bit carried away!
More of an atmospheric piece and the title track of my RPM "album". I love doing vocal harmonies (I grew up on CSNY). Thanks to anyone who listens :)
Oh…
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ambient guitar noises recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
Focused on using the guitar pedal tools
Ibanez DE7 Echo/Delay
Line 6 DL4 MKII
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ambient guitar noises recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
Focused on using the guitar pedal tools
Ibanez DE7 Echo/Delay
Line 6 DL4 MKII
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ambient guitar noises recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
Focused on using the guitar pedal tools
Ibanez DE7 Echo/Delay
Line 6 DL4 MKII
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Instrumental. I am in the process of adding vocals but putting this out there in case someone might like to contribute *wishful thinking* ~Kat
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ambient guitar noises recorded for the 2024 RPM Challenge.
Focused on using the guitar pedal tools
Ibanez DE7 Echo/Delay
Line 6 DL4 MKII
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Hydrasynth Explorer with no added effects, using the 37 key pressure sensitive keyboard with the factory Harmonics 1-60 tuning.
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Song 6 for my 2024 RPM challenge. Got the guitar and bass out for this one. It's a song with a lot of dissonance and so is kind of weird. But here it is anyways. Definitely not for everyone's ears.
Anything, anything you say…
Anything…
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hey what’s up everyone
so I just wanna say something really quick
in the past I have said some things regarding homosexuals in my songs
and I said on one of the songs at the end—this song I am referring to is Organic Rapping—I said that they…
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Lola the cat kept jumping up onto the Minibrute 2, so I let her play.
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VERSE I
This is so different Not what I'm used to
I miss the darkness of the deep
I found the way that you trap me Now all I've known is behind me
Unsure of my fate
CHORUS
Take your time You know just how to break me, just how to break…
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VERSE I
And we, both encased in sweet
And you make sure it all stays all so still
While I, still let it all flow free
Your top, is by far more colorful
And you are beautiful
CHORUS
We are not so different
We rise all the same
Ready…
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VERSE I
I'm tough while I'm alive
I'll soften up with heat and time
I'm fine baked or fried
It's up to you
CHORUS
Cut me up and bury me
Keep me down 'till I grow leaves
I got eyes, but I can't see
I go great with sour cream
VERSE…
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VERSE I
I never thought it'd be this way
I never thought there'd be this pain
Little did I know how things could change
Now I know I'll never be the same
Now I'm the one who is ashamed
I have nothing left to gain
The burden is mine to bear…
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Song 7 for RPM 2024. I've always wanted to do a song with a one note melody line...here it is! I had my awesome husband join me for some lead guitar parts (which made it that much more fun). Thanks for listening!
It’s not like you
Crossing…
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Microkorg S, guitar, Korg Volcas.
Improv jam done in one take, unless I mess up really bad, then I try again.
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Draft recording for RPM Challenge 2024. Recorded on 20 FEB 2024.
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Microkorg S and Korg Volcas, guitar.
More improv on top of improv on top of improv.
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Was kind of in a grumpy mood when I wrote this one. Wrote and recorded pretty much all at once.
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Just had to do this. We've all had to deal with someone like this and in some ways might have wished at least for a moment we were them.
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Yup, my wife is the girl :-} I wish I could have made it sound as good as she looks.
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Just trying to make myself write and this came about.
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Haven't used my old Harmony with a slide for awhile. Futzed around and came up with this. Keeping it simple.
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Wrote this just after last years RPM. Maybe a little John Prine influence in the lyrics ? Kind of fun :-)
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More layered improv, this time I'm playing the drums.
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I'm tired the way social media has negatively impacted people's lives. The song is a call to simply make time for people without phones.
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number five becomes completed song number two.
This one is okay. The key change in bar number 66 is my favorite thing about it but I like the chorus too. Not a great song, but probably good enough to make this year…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number two becomes finished song number three.
This one is almost okay. The vocals aren't good and the lead guitars are terrible in places. I am so rusty and I can't seem to shake it off. It really shows here. This…
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I've bombed out of the RPM Challenge... again!. Just can't put together a track anymore. Frick it! Jam time
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And this is all I've got out of my RPM challenge flop... more twiddling on my acoustic guitar.
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Song 8 for RPM 2024...In this one I'm playing around with a bit of chaos. It is also an attempt at creating a song in 7/8 :). I like it weird. I put in a quote from one of my favourite David Bowie songs as the outro.
Oh oh oh oh
All the…
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Inspired from all the political SNAFU going on in America today. Feels like the American Dream has really always been a lie
What's is there to a life
In the land of the free
and home of the brave
Is there true freedom
To live as they…
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Song # 8 for FAWM 2024
Liner Notes
We all want the truth, right? Right?
#acoustic_guitar #singer_songwriter
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I just got the news
What am I to do
Its all bout fear and panic
It kinda makes me manic
Felling powerless and blue…
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FATHER TAKE THE HIGHEST PLACE
VERSE ONE (John):
Father take the highest place,
First thing in the morning I will sing Your praise.
Glory to You Lord, my voice I will raise,
Oh how I long to see Your face.
Heaven and earth they sing holy…
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Spurred by a title sent to me by a friend and connected to political stuff as well of course. FAWM No. 10, 2024
When is it enough
When life is in tatters
When life becomes to tough
When death no longer matters
Are my rights human rights…
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In the stirring of the morning
Awakening light breaks through
Whispers of a new beginning
A world fresh and true
Listless echoes fill the air
Nature's symphony in tune
A moment of pure beauty there
At the waning of the moon
Rise…
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This is a collaboration with fatboyjamz - hear more of his material at [@fatboyjamz] on Soundcloud
Lyrics and vox: fatboyjamz
Music and vocal synths: richaux
*Lyrics*
[Non existat]
I’ve been hoping to show you
All that you’ve been…
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Build an impression
Straight brush, curving round
Claude's subtle gestures
Light touch, hence no sound
Heart never opened
Hardly dented
Not a great state
To leave your pillow or your soul
When you ignore me
Then final warnings sound…
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Recorded in 2018, but never originally posted publicly until now. This is a tune about living in Northern California during the wildfires and getting a call from friends that they needed a place to stay as their home was destroyed.
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Didn't start out to write a break-up song, but like a lot of well-intentioned relationships, this one turned out that way.
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Shout-out to XKCD for the brilliant comic strip.
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Inspired by the Camino de SantiaGO-GO, with a little help from the Bard.
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Song 9 of RPM 2024. Decided to focus on using my electric guitar and bass for this one. Had no idea where it would go...but it was certainly fun playing!
Came up with the lyrics on the fly :) Thanks to anyone who is out there listening. My…
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2024 RPM Challenge idea number nine becomes completed song number four.
I'm hovering between "this is okay" and "this is almost okay." I don't hate it. I think it goes to the chorus a few too many times (is that even possible?) and the mix…
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Song idea for the 2024 RPM Challenge number 19 becomes finished song number five.
Dynamics, am I right? Why yes, yes I am. that secret to good song writing that I always fail to do... and sort of still failed to do here even though the change…
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Idea number three for the 2024 RPM Challenge becomes completed song number six.
I am positive that I have written this exact song at least 10 times before. I guess I must like it enough to use it on this year's RPM Challenge album then…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
THE DARKEND ROAD
You say its all my fault
But really you know
both of us got it wrong
Now both our dreams are broken in two
Now there gone
Looking back I can see
How it all went wrong
How we began to sing to separate…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL
Lady you got something that I need
Don’t close the door cause I’m pretty sure its been decreed
That you’ve got love I could set free
If we talk I’m sure you’ll agree
That…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
THE BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS
I’ve tried to run, I’ve tried to hide
Ive tried someplace dark to disappear from time
I can’t find nowhere to hide from this heartache of mine
I’m just letting everything slide
Yeah I’m letting…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
SLIDE AWAY
I’ve tried to run, I’ve tried to hide
Ive tried someplace dark to disappear from time
I can’t find nowhere to hide from this heartache of mine
I’m just letting everything slide
Yeah I’m letting…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
PICK YOURSELF UP
Easy come easy go
When theres nothing left the hand its easy to let go
When everything goes wrong and your flat on your face
Just Pick yourself up and get back in the race…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
LET YOUR LOVE BE BOLD
Lonely is the path I walk
I Stand straight, stand tall
I’m not afraid to show my love
I Love with my all
Love is something that I need
To make me a better man
to round the edge into the…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
I LONG FOR THE END OF THE NIGHT
I know the sun wants to shine
once more into this storm of mine
Breaking through to give me a sign
releasing from these chains and setting me free
I’ve been lost on this darkened…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
HOW I LOVED YOU
From playing in the school yard
I couldn’t disregard
The love that felt for you
I fell hard
The storm that you brought
Yeah brought a little rain
But what is love without a little pain
Pulling…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
ALL I NEED
I was down on his knees yeh begging you please
Forgive me for my sins you are all I need
All I want is your love
can’t you see
that you give me enough loving
All the loving I…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
LOVE YOU
These crazy feelings inside of me
Makes my days swing sweet
The loves is just oozing outta me
Oh This feeling you just can’t beat
From the day I met you
You’ve made me feel so complete…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024.
WEST
I’m always walking backwards looking forwards
Dragged back to the past
You think i’ve got nothing left but for loving you
But babe thats not all I do
I dream when I am not…
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