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Outland (The Ballad of Jarrod X)
words and music by VIVIAN CIRCLE
Mother, why did you lie to me?
I didn't have to make the same mistakes as you.
Father, why did you run away?
There was so many things left unspoken with you.
Jarrod walks…
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Our entry into a compilation CD for the Acid Exchange International Music and Arts Guild double-CD. I wrote the music and cowrote the Lyric with Scott Graves, and sang the song. Other players are Jay P Lindsey, Dave Bell, and Steve of Asymetric…
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Previously released as "a little moon music", Here, used as the background for a video i made in Oct of Great White Sharks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX5R3lrxmYs
This is not the typical Discovery Channel version, here i saw the more languid…
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Fasten your seatbelts, this jeep is going deep into the heart of the jungle! Sound clips cut and pasted against Norm's Fat Baby Bembe.
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I *think* this is final version of my 4th MOTU demo
- I will see what comments I get, if any.
This is a short, more or less middle eastern-ish piece using the Zurna tuning and Mark of the Unicorn Ethno 2 sample set in Sonar. I performed (and…
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From the Angie Fights Crime/AM FM Dreams split album "Faiths" (2010)
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Well, it's like I went down town last night to see Guthrie playing with Ray and I came home with a song.
NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Capo @ 1 in G
There’s a bird in the gutter that’s so sound asleep
He can’t hear the music that’s sweeping…
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A Poem about Fear....
-My friend Fear-
By Tharek Mokbul
My friend.... (!?) .....
You have controlled your tone....?!?!
Is this the first time I have truly known you?
The ever present protector....
Moderator of will....
I request that you know…
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Guitar, $300... Folding chair, $30... Firewood, free... Labor Day, priceless.
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Something you don't often hear from me and that's
straight drummin'. On this track I left the
original L/R kit track because it just sounded
more raw and nasty. Listen close and you'll hear different levels on the high hat. Plus, you can…
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Being Jettisoned In A Sarcophagus Into The Deep,Dark Starless Void
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A very special love song.
Featuring Ewan Crossan on guitar.
One touch
Can make you do anything
Your light shows me everything
Please know i'll carry you everywhere
I go, my plaything
Chorus:
And i knew i'd have you
moment my eyes…
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A happy song about being left by your no-good spouse. There's a word for the attitude in this song but I can't think of it right now ...
this is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
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I went into the studio to record something I wrote... I came out to find out that 32 students had been gunned down... I already had the mandolin song and melody with a writing direction... and this senseless evil really derailed the whole thing…
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There was a director who was so happy to show off his lead singer to the playwrite... she was young and beautiful and a talented singer... when he finally got to present her to the playwrite... the playwrite nodded, and smiled.. he told the director…
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kimono rose, is that feeling/thing/person you always long for
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Once upon a time, in a land far away...
Just a minute!
xOx
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Getting lost in the maze from time to time is just part of life
The maze of misfortune
I get one step forward and three steps back
Can’t see where I’m going
Lifes so dark and black
Looking ahead seems stupid and pretty…
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He looks into a maelstrom of fragmented thoughts and half-remembered faces. The dust claims it all in the end, leaving just incomplete remnants of indecipherable emotion.
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Freesound Sample Used (and it's buried deep, deep in there…
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This song/hymn consists of lines lifted from Psalm 34. I had written it in April of 2024 but didn't record it until March of 2025. I would play and sing it often through the year trying to perfect the guitar arrangement of it, and then I eventually…
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Reg has fallen out of love again and written a song to his ex....she always thought she was right on everything and he wasn't so sure she was .....
Your the one who’s got to sleep through the night
You look in this mirror to finally see…
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Another song from the 2021 RPM Challenge (I think?) that has been re-recorded for the Quarantine Tunes Volume Seven project. This song sort of rocks. I changed the arrangement a little and rethought the way the harmony vocals were structured…
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for sound in abstract noise constructions - all abelton live
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(samples music produced by Smokey Robinson and George Martin from the song "You've Really Got A Hold On Me," performed by The Miracles and The Beatles, respectively)
I need you so bad
I need you so
I want you so
‘cause this is just consolation…
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[Verse 1]
I used to grin at the idea of attention whore
’til I saw one in real life, now I get it more
Do you make music for you, or to get some dough?
You should make it for you, they don’t get your score
It’s some subconscious reminders…
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[Chorus]
Good morning, America
Big race problem everywhere we are
If there’s trouble for minority
It probably ‘cause of ethnicity
If colored man is content, he is a bitch
You should let it get to you, be pissed
I wish I never been born…
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Well, IF YOU eveh spend time above the 45 th parallel
You know all about the northern view
So here is my imaginary solution to a northern cold ass winter
If you don't get it that's not unusual
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sometimes a man needs finger snaps.
Letter Seventeen's original is here.
https://alonetone.com/letterseventeen/playlists/half-time-show-(rpm-2022)/lightning-rods
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This is how these things start
My sad excuse for a work of art
Put in the effort, set the pace
Hardly anyone listens anyways
Years of this takes its toll
Only few ever know
All this work done in haste
A whole month gone to waste
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Dance remix of “Alive” by Gary Fox off his 2021 RPM album Stardust.
Check out the original version here:
https://alonetone.com/garyfox8/playlists/stardust/alive
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While kids watched TV eating chocolate,we had easter early as their cousins came over after they left I had a couple of hours this afternoon so of course i got the guitar out i used the fender stratocaster with a 12 string plugin through the kemper…
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well after listening to the mixers on alone tone I decided to do some apple loops.
I had a great time with it , so here is a jazz tune on the positive side
ive had it with sad tunes
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vocal => ego compressor => tensor
guitars => MXR badass fuzz => Mood => El Capistan
Some reverb added post production.
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Thanks for listening .......
YOU ARE NOT LIKE ME
Some People don’t know they can’t control their dreams
They hold them back and watch them rip at the seams
If they could break away maybe one day they could see
that I am not like you…
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I like this one, even though there's not a lot to it musically. Mix wise, there's tons going on. Four rhythm guitar tracks, five vocal tracks, four lead guitar tracks, and (really) two drum tracks. Oh yeah, and one lonely bass guitar.
I…
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Steve developed this beautiful track with his ukulele and I added some lyrics to make a "positive message" song for the times we are in.... Hope it makes you smile too...
It Won’t Be Like This Forever
Sitting here on my front steps
Listening…
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A worship song for the times you feel hopelessly lost.
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Oh Lord I don't know what to do
When I find myself, far away from you
and every prayer always comes back to this
I don't know what to do please pull me through
and I 'm so tired…
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The closing number, the thoughtful number. It says more than goodbye.
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vamp thing maybe for something but now for Sound-In 1-25-20
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The song is supposed to be one of those "Saturday Morning Hits", which goes back to when I was a kid watching Top of The Pops in '72-'74 with my older sister in the UK. You would see all these bands playing their hit on TV, with all these kids…
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DOG PARK
Everybody meet me down at the DOG PARK
If you need me I’ll be down at the DOG PARK
Sunday afternoon and I’m bound for the DOG PARK
Everybody gets along at the DOG PARK
White and black and brown at the DOG PARK
Nobody’s looking…
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A new project of thinking about writing for 4 guitars as in same feeling as a string quartet. This is one of two recent pieces. The initial idea was thought and recorded then the other parts were improvised one at a time from that. All performed…
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Crazy is a term of art, insane is a term of law.
-Hunter S Thompson
RPM 17, Enjoy!
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I didn't get shut out this year!
My demo plans for 2016 are proving to be way too elaborate so I wrote and recorded this in GarageBand on my iPad in one sitting. The music is overly simple and the lyrics are throw away, but it's done. Guitars…
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A song about a friend of mine who by day is a postman and by night is one crazy dude..........
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RPM 2k15
vocal by Madeline Koestner
she tries to push me away
nothing that i can do
so hard just to maintain
and keep my mind focused
to not let my eyes betray
i’m watching her slide away
into the abyss, call it nothing
call it nothing…
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Starry Nightmoth and I (Gene Eric Mann) labored a few days on this tricky number. We gave it our best shot, but mucho kudos to Del Shannon's keyboardist -- his break rift was amazing! We settled for sort of faking our way through, which was…
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a slightly different track. was my first track with GT-DN. will not please everyone
ein etwas anderer track. war mein erster track mit GT-DN . wird auch nicht jedem gefallen
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Blues. My way of playing “Rollin' in My Sweet Baby’s Arms,” ‘cuz I’m a Soul man. See the Soul-patch? Dig. Be cool, cats, and stay dry!
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Another one in our ninjam series. Myself, Jim Goodin, Ray Istorico and an unknown drummer named Stick. Mix By Jim.
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#RPM Challenge 2014#
First Song of the Challenge . . . Here We Go!
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New song. Wrote the guitar part first, lyrics came later. This is one of the first songs I've done more than one track on in quite a while, and also one that isn't dark (unusual for me). Anyway, enjoy!
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From heart to heart it comes
A stream of sounds
That so worries,
So beckon ...
For Trevor, the one and only
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Meeting the Gremlin's at my house for a quick brunch.
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A noodle that turned into a doodle which turned into a song....thats what you get when you watch David Attenborough's Africa on TV................
No Rain (Lyrics)
The earth was scorched as dry as stone
nothing anywhere wanted to grow
the Devil…
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I put up a wren house in the trees and garden where I was living and surprisingly a house wren moved in. Every day he sang his song in a repeating pattern ... a natural loop. I held a mic out the window one morning and taped his beautiful repetitive…
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Another rough scratch track - and more in the bad biker movie soundtrack series... our hero is down, sitting along side the road, his love interest has ridden off into the sunset on his bike. He gave her the keys when she didn't have a way to…
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Testing out some compressors and effects chains while losing my mind and having fun with my synth guitar and minimoog vsti. Happy new years!
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A little work in progress here : written with a friend as a female/male duet.
Ill cut off my hair
And trim down my nails
Set out to sea
Then let down my sails
Mistake me for a man
You wouldn't be the first
You can't have my best
Without getting…
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This is my eldest daughter Amy singing with me strumming badly in the background. One take, no edits, it's exactly how we did it 15 mins ago!
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A bit of fun. Feel free to chop it up or add to it.
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(Featuring Jim Goodin fretless guitar, Chris Vaisvil fretless bass)
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leave us not forget, that we are men after all.
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This weekend I was thinking about artists that I used to enjoy listening to in highschool. Toad the Wet Sprocket came to mind, and I thought it would be fun to cover one of their songs. I've always liked "Pray Your Gods" - even though the chorus…
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Cascadia is the first solo work written and recorded by Andrew Davis. This funky instrumental blend of folk, rock and jazz features mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, bass, and varied percussion. Enjoy!
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“Second chance”: (Richard Hardrick)
I passed out.
The new journey will begin and I'm still here,
All for an angular brightness.
They try to wake me up.
I left the ground
floating and smiling with the bright light, al fin
in front of…
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You may be shocked to learn that I own a Rickenbacker 360 and I love R.E.M.
Intro/verses: G-C-Am7-Cmaj7
Chorus: Em-G-C-D
Bridge: Fmaj7-C/G-Em
What if you found you had
Your own time bomb
Never sure if and when
It could go off
Safe again
At…
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Time for a noodle in the middle of the house move...packing....dumping......sorting...reminiscing..... still waiting to exchange contracts and mean't to be moving Friday....a little stressed
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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Another cut from the 1988 cassette tape of a live performance by Scartaglen on the NPR show Mountain stage. This time some tunes from County Kerry.
Kirk Lynch- Uilleann pipes and whistle. Becky Pringle- Fiddle. Mike Dugger- Fiddle and guitar…
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Inspired by the local Farmers Market in my community.
YouTube video is attached.
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Thanks to Johnny Reg is getting quite a Zep album together filling a teenage dream...Thank Johnny.....
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A simple song that somehow became a rather complicated recording.
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Guitar, live looping and electronics. No overdubs. Just as it was played.
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Reg couldn't remember a thing.........then he started to remember................
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"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)
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Acoustic Jam, Heavy Times in Peoples Minds. Thanx for Listening. "G"
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Dave Berry - music (acoustic guitar, Electric guitar, bass, piano)
Tim Green - Vocals
Shadowself - backing vocals
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Alan Sondheim - violin, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - electric guitar, SMD.
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This is a collaboration with a prolific chap called James Higgins (oldrottenhead on songcrafters.org), based on an instrumental of mine from a couple of years ago: http://alonetone.com/andyr/tracks/muletide
I was quietly minding my own business…
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Background music for the Master, illustrating his unique style.
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It tells of the perils of dating for the modern werewolf.
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yar another pokemon remix. better then what i did with the title theme imho.
check it.
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Reg was in the library reading back issues of the national papers to keep warm because a cold spell had hit the country hard and he had no money for heating. At least he could sit in the library reading until 5pm when it closed. Some strange stories…
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2011
One of my favorite songs I've recorded. An amalgamated tribute to 80's Crimson, Andy Summers and Peter Gabriel.
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In loving memory of Takeshi Shudo, creator and CEO of the Pokemon franchise. A great mind, a great idea, and a wonderful era of Japanese cartoon/ games, end with his passing. Let it be known that his virtuoso soul was laid to rest for the reason…
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Mancera is an spanish Fortress build about 500 years ago in an island with the same name, in the south of Chile.
Off course it has a lot of history, i used to go there when i was a kid and i have big memories of it, been in the big dungeon, where…
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Walking through a new world with a new perspective; everything is a circuit; everything is infinite and electronic. Artificial things and natural things are the same.
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One from the vault...
Recorded for the compilation album Catacoustic Overtones.
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Another song from the archive... Written about a friend who somehow seemed to come out of her general sad manner... Thoughts go back to a lunar eclipse when the girl I was standing next to to watch it (way back in college) disappeared from sight…
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An improvisation on the resonator, played lap style.
Tuning CGCEBE
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So I've learned a thousand things
for the thousand things I forgot
Too much too soon to see it changing you
Walking slowly, walking quickly all the time
To survivie the bitter streets where the
castaways always look away, and I do the…
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An ambient anthemic piece.
The process:
- Start with a live take of me playing an iphone app called tonepad.
- add camelphat and camelspace
- add an Alchemy instance, find a big fat pad, work out a riff
- record a single take accompanying the…
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With a 909 drum loop reminiscent of Tears for Fears instrumental fillers, this downtempo tune quickly
becomes an earful of delay, clarinet, and oozing synths.
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This song's about that guy in the band who really can't play and just doesn't get any better, but pays for studio time, buys the gear, springs for beer, and owns the van. You always have to think twice about kicking the guy out with all the money!
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Lorelei reaches her breaking point after years of abuse — via a failed attempt at an homage to Ennio Morricone (had he been Mexican).
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It is all about love, isn't it?
Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/loveengine3.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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this ain't perfect, i've been working on it a while. the drums sound like shit, my vox are horid and the guitars suck balls, but i kinda like it.
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for the 2009 RPM Challenge album "Sabbatical"
Standing at the edge of Canyon de Chelly in Arizona at sunrise last summer I had an out of body experience.
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This tune has been knocking about in various forms for the last decade and I've never given it a name.
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Rod Webber, Joey Slliks and Luke & Aaron Bellamy bring you sounds of love and death straight through the chip in the back of your neck.
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A song about Jesus. you believe or you don't, it's that simple.
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swerving off the road...coming so close to the ever waiting trees...
sometimes, yes, sometimes this is the space I find myself in.
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Well she's left him it wasn't even a week he's not sure he didn't just dream it...
It was only you
i stumble from my bed
my life lived is lived like a dream
Nothing going wrong
Nothing too extreme…
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